5 ways to help the environment

A lot of people from green groups to naturalists to the everyday citizen is today concerned with how to help their environment and go away from depending on oil and moving over to different ways of transport , energy supply and living by harnessing the power of the wind, to building personal transport solutions to green energy efficient housing.

Technology today with enhanced methods of constant communication can actually help our planet.

So I present to you 5 ways how you can help your environment around you and some money in the long run as well.

1. Oil! it burns, it pollutes but yet we can't live without it. Alright so what's a solution here. Everybody should lobby their corporations or bosses to take up a voluntary program where employees could sign up to work at home instead of driving to work. Amazing right!

It's quite simple actually get your boss/CEO or whoever to start a company program where employees can have the option to work at home for a single work day per week or every two weeks or however frequent/infrequent. Of course your job would have to be such that it can be performed off site and you could either report it in the following work day or sync with your office while at home working your regular hours (via the internet of course).

Benefits - You save gas money, you help the environment and well you don't have to worry about beating rush hour traffic once in a while.

If they can make a denim day, casual day then they can make a work at home day and have it more frequent.

2. The second option to the first one above is for the company to set up suburban offices, a sub unit of the company and have it closer to employee homes so teams of employees can just segway/bike themselves over to work everyday instead of driving. Instead of building 50 story buildings you would now have a big corporation spread out over an entire city and its suburbs instead of one central location. Again savings reflected will be power, gas, practically up to 50% less pollution (or more) as smaller units spring up and people drive less to work.

3. Instead of taking plastic bags from your market every time you go to shop buy your own cloth bags or a bigger basket if you are a family. You'll look super cool when checking out at the counter and putting things into your cloth bag that your kids drew their doodles on or painted or a really retro looking wicker basket that can carry most of your goods. If you use plastic a lot then you could recycle the ones you have till they break up and then shift over to cloth and baskets that last much much longer. Here in Europe they actually charge for plastic bags, though the smaller lighter weight plastic bags are still free.

4. Buy stuff that doesn't use a lot of packaging and try to buy open goods like grains or fruits and vegetables that aren't packaged. You can reuse the plastic bags you had from the last time you bought stuff to repack it again until you absolutely HAVE to get new ones.

5. Whenever you peel fruits or vegetables at home put the peels into a special container where you can later dump it along with some soil compost to turn it into soil fertilizer. Try to find any centers or plant nursery's near your home if they accept this type of refuse to recycle it.

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These aren't all new tips some are old and some, like 1 and 2, well I haven't seen them in practice anywhere. Hopefully they can help the environment and even save you some money.

Everybody Go To...work at home maybe?

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