Switching out to the more eco-friendly incandescent light bulbs, carpooling as much as possible, and taking a walk to the store a couple blocks away instead of driving it are all good ways to be green. But there are tons of other opportunities available to help you reduce your carbon footprint - and save trees doing it.
Living in the technology age, we're constantly printing things out. We have business cards designed and printed on enormous offset presses that actually rank fouth among manufacturers in the amount of energy used. Producing paper (it takes 17 very large trees to make just one ton of paper), and the electricity used for factory operations requires massive amounts of energy - fossil fuels.
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I've been spending so much time over at the yahoo group reading EcoEtsy messages I forgot all about the blog! Must get the button on GLR and link up over on Random Lunacy too. Great article, thanks for sharing this!
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