Not only can an iPod play music, but I’ve discovered an application called Go Green that gives eco-friendly tips and facts. Some of them are vague such as “volunteer in your neighborhood” or “start a recycling program”, but some of them are surprisingly interesting. Here’s a few that stood out to me:
- If every U.S. home replaced just one light bulb with an Energy Star bulb, we’d save enough energy to light 3 million homes for a year.
- Instead of sending old rugs to the landfill, check with local animal shelters to see if they can use them. Old towels, blankets and sheets could also be appreciated as well.
- Washing clothes in cold water eliminates 2 pounds of CO2 per load.
-Wrap your water heater in an insulated blanket and you’ll eliminate 1,000 pounds of CO2 a year. Eliminate another 550 pounds by lowering the thermostat to 120°F.
- Paying bills online saves time, postage, and trees. If everyone switches to online banking, we would cut 1.6 billion tons of waste and 2.1 million tons of CO2 a year.
- If every U.S. citizen recycles half of their annual waste, we’ll recycle a 280-million ton mountain of trash — the equivalent of 550 Empire State Buildings!
- Use 100% post-consumer copy paper. It saves five pounds of CO2 per ream. A ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees — and those trees absorb 60 pounds of CO2 a year.
Whenever I’m at my friend’s house, I always go straight for the big bag of peanuts in the cabinet above the sink. They are hands down the best peanuts I’ve ever tasted, and unfortunately for her (and her family) I gobble them all up in one visit. Where do these magical peanuts come from you may wonder? The Park Slope Food Coop.
Winter’s coming, which means that uncountable New Yorkers will be putting on their skates and skating around in endless circles on the city’s many rinks. But when skating, people tend to forget one important factor about the rink: it takes a ridiculous amount of energy to keep them frozen. In fact, it is estimated that a typical small rink requires about $30,000 worth of electricity a month to operate. Not only is this expensive, but it readily contributes to Global Warming as well. The constant energy that is required to keep the rink frozen makes ice skating one of the most energy intensive forms of recreation there is out there.
Looking around my house, I can see uncountable discarded craft projects: painted wood insects, tie-dyed pieces of cloth, and half-finished mobiles to name a few. I absolutely loved craft projects when I was little, but they were quite useless. If you want to give your kids something fun AND productive, then check out 
Studying for SATs, and APs and SAT IIs is not so fun. Actually, it really stinks. So anything that I can do to improve the feeling of sitting down at my desk and tackling a vocabulary problem, is just great. My friend showed my this website 
Handbags are a pain to shop for, that’s the reality. They are either not big enough, not small enough, not pretty enough, and in my case, not green enough. At the moment, I’m carrying around a brown polyurethane/polyester bag (that’s made in China) and am looking for a new one. I stumbled across this really great company called 
Another thing I have found on my quest for a bag, is the 
Sure, water bottles are convenient, they’re tasty, and you know they are always filtered to perfection. But 80% of all those bottles end up in a landfill and the other 20% are “in the wild” where it takes up to 430 years for them to disintegrate. I suggest buying a reusable bottle and putting tap water in it. New York City tap water is delicious, and is argued to be the best in the country. Nalgene bottles have just now been discovered to have a harmful chemical called BPA, but 
