Green Prophet's Green Yourself Daily tips provide easy-to-implement green living tips daily. These green living tips are great ways through which you can grow greener every day. Greening your life is about making little changes in your life. Little changes can make a big difference. Greening our world is not an all-or-nothing battle. It's about creating a balance with the world around us: cutting back where you can and compensating when you cannot make the change.
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Feb 29th, 2008
Every single degree that you raise your central heating raises the cost of running your heating by 5 percent. Try to sharpen your awareness to what temperatures you are comfortable at. Do you need to keep your heat on quite so high? We’re not suggesting that you should be cold.
Just be aware of how high [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Feb 18th, 2008
Installing Low-Flow showerheads and faucet aerators is probably the single most effective water conservation action you can do for your home.
Inexpensive and simple to install, low-flow shower heads and faucet aerators can reduce your home water consumption as much as 50%, and reduce your energy cost of heating the water also [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Sep 3rd, 2008
Every ton of paper, roughly 200,000 sheets, that is recycled saves approximately 17 trees. The average school tosses 38 tons of paper each year, the equivalent of 644 trees. When you buy notebooks and paper think green and spend a couple extra to get recycled (it’s not always more expensive). Raise the awareness in school, [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Aug 31st, 2008
With everyone going back to school over the next few days, now is a good time to connect with parents from your children’s school. Find out who has children in grades above your child and see if you can get their old books. There are also many book stores which will buy and resell used [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on May 11th, 2008
The batteries that you throw out today end up in landfills and incinerators. From here they eventually leak into the environment and can end up poisoning you tomorrow.
Find out where the closest place for you to recycle batteries is. And if you use rechargeable batteries you will not only reduce the circulation of dangerous chemicals [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Mar 4th, 2008
In the spirit of the 3 R’s see try to think outside of the box. How canyou reuse household items in ways not originally intended for them? Forinstance, want to start an herb garden? Egg cartons make great planters forseedlings. Cottage cheese containers can be used as a great for organizinglittle things.
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Jul 18th, 2008
Summer is the most popular time to hike, the Israeli national pastime. The conditions are just right for a good old Israeli hike. The sun is scorching, everyone else is doing it and the kids are out of school.
When hiking, be nice your our land! Too many times a beautiful hike is ruined because some [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Sep 7th, 2008
There are so many wonderful things that you can do with odd household throw-aways. Be creative and think outside the box, or INSIDE the box in some cases…
Cereal boxes can make stylish and colorful bookmarks.
Use empty tissue boxes to store extra plastic bags.
Ever find that your chips get crushed? Pop them into a [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Oct 30th, 2008
The best way to defrost food is in the fridge. It not only keeps the fridge cool, meaning the fridge itself will use less energy to stay cool, but often people leave food out too long with defrosting which causes their food to collect unwanted bacteria.
Many other people use their microwave to defrost food. [...]
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Posted in Green Living Tips on Apr 29th, 2008
Here are some eco-friendly tips for getting rid of ants…
Try sprinkling one (or more) of these ingredients where ants enter your home and it will help keep your house ant-free this spring and summer: Lemon juice, cinnamon, baking soda, coffee grounds, vinegar.
AND… if you mix all of the above and bake in the oven at 350 degrees [...]
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