You can be environmentally sensitive by paying attention to the Four Rs:

• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
• Renewable

• Reduce your use of resources (water, natural gas/propane, electricity, plastic, and paper) in the bathrooms, kitchen, yard, and around the house.
  
  
  "The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives."
  --Chinese Proverb


• Reuse products as much as you can.
  • Donate your sheets and towels to a shelter when they wear out, or use them for rags
  • Repair appliances that break rather than tossing them and buying new ones
  • Buy recycled products whenever possible


• Recycle as much as possible. Diverting many items from landfills helps save the planet from toxic waste and wasting land.
  • Compost food scraps either into your compost bin or find someone who wants to recycle them for you
  • Recycle paper, plastic, glass, cardboard, and metal
  • Donating your sheets and towels to a shelter is recycling too


• Renewable resources are better choices than non-renewable. Consider what the products you choose to use in building and running your house do to the earth.
  • Granite and stone look great in your house and yard, but they aren't renewable
  • Crushed rock is generally the biproduct of quarrying (quarries are reclaimed after the project is complete) while river rock is most often mined from riverbeds
  • Rainforest woods and old-growth forest woods are essentially non-renewable unlike fast growing trees, bamboo, and cork
  • Petroleum-based fuels are not renewable, though easily and cost effectively available, while alternative fuels (solar, wind, water, and geothermal) are quite renewable though

The above information was obtained from: Sage Blossom Consulting * Kit  Cassingham, Member ISHC * 1.970.626.2277 *

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