15 Easy Ways to Really Cut Your Consumption

This blog post is cited from LOHAS.com, I make a digest some of them that are easy for me to practice in my busy life:


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1) Food:
1. Ditch the processed food. It takes unnecessary energy to produce it, as well as tons of packaging.

2. Don't drink milk. Livestock consumes much of the land on the planet, whether for meat or dairy, and creates literally tons and tons of pollution, estimates are in the 1/5th of all greenhouse gases range.

3. Drink less bottled water, try to drink none. The U.S. sends two million tons of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottled water packaging to the landfill each year. Just drink the tap.

4. Skip Starbucks and brew your own coffee. Once we factor in the cost of the gourmet coffee and the cost of driving there, each time we brew a cup at home, we save about the equivalent of a gallon of gas.

2) live:
1. Wash your clothes in cold water. About 90 percent of the energy used for washing clothes is for heating the water.

2. Bring a reusable bag wherever you go.

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