Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Green Reading

Hey folks, it's time! Santa brought this little book to us, and it is chock full of smart simple ideas to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

A few favorite suggestions: Switch to fair trade/organic coffee... just one household switching to certified coffee for a year is enough to protect 9200 sqare feet of rain forest. If everyone in Seattle switched to certified coffees, a rain forest area the size of that city could be saved every year.

Use bar soap rather than liquid - if every U.S. household replaced a bottle of body wash with a bar of soap, roughly 2.5 million pounds of plastic containers could be diverted from the waste stream.