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September 13, 9am-1pm
Anderson Park, Normal
Living Choices
Transportation
- Choose a place to live that decreases the need to drive.
- Think twice before purchasing another car (so you’re not tempted to
drive more).
- Choose a fuel-efficient, low-polluting car (suitable for typical, not
extraordinary needs. Consider a low- or zero-emission vehicle).
- Set concrete goals for reducing your travel (use your odometer to check
your progress).
- Whenever you can, try to walk, bike or use public transportation.
Food
- Eat less meat (even shifting to dairy products helps).
- Buy certified organic produce, which is generally grown in a more
sustainable fashion, with less mechanization and better crop rotation, and
doesn't create water pollution from fertilizers and pesticides.
- Pack school lunches with less packaging and waste. For ideas click here.
Household
- Recycle, recycle, recycle. For every ton of recycled material, 1.24 tons of carbon monoxide
are prevented from being emitted.
- Reward green, climate-saver enterprises by purchasing from them when possible.
- Choose your home carefully. Don't move into a home that's too big and will
require more to build and heat. Avoid new developments.
- Look for insulation, efficient windows, heat-recovery ventilation and other improvements if you
do buy a new home.
- Reduce the environmental costs of heating and hot water. Install efficient
hot water heating.
- Choose natural gas or an electric heat pump.
- Turn down the thermostat, insulate, seal the windows and upgrade windows and doors for
energy-efficiency.
- Consider a solar collector and extra large storage tank for water, if you have an electric water heater.
- Request a free home energy audit.
- Install efficient lighting and appliances. Buy the most energy-efficient
refrigerator, only as large as you need. Look for energy labels.
- Wash clothes in cold water when possible.
- Try compact fluorescent bulbs which last ten times as long and use one-fourth the electricity.
- Choose an electricity supplier offering renewable energy (to reduce the
amount generated through the burning of fossil fuels such as coal).
- For more energy saving ideas please visit the
Energy section of our website.
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