AT is turning green, are you? In addition to launching AT:Green this month (our new site dedicated to helping make homes more beautiful, healthy, organized and green), each site is blogging ways to live, buy, and think green.
As always, a lot of what's good out there (and in this case, green) comes from you. We want to know how you live and make responsible choices that affect your lives inside and outside the home. So...tell us below how you are green - or how you'd like to be green.
I'd like to be more green, but I try my best. Things like i-go make it easy to not be a car owner. Mad ups for i-go.
I try to bring my own bags to stores.
And my small garbage can in my condo helps keep me conscious of the waste I create. Taking out the trash sucks so if I create less of it, the fewer trips out to the alley I make!
Riding my bike helps the environment & my belleh. We all win.
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I run a greener business then most, that count? :)
While I live in an apartment, I use quite a bit of grey water- especially for the dyeing I do (which could be a large waste of water), eat local and organic (less waste).
Vegetarian, using less packaging, brining my own bags, unplugging cords (all the main appliances not including the kitchen are on two different cords so it is really easy), flushable cat litter (less liners, less changing the litter box).
A hand powered washing machine and hanging everything to dry cuts down on energy and water hugely.
If I didn't live in an apartment, had the $, or I had better lighting (angle of my windows it wrong) I would do solar panels, a really energy efficient smaller fridge, and a better stove than the realllllllllly old one I currently have.
I would also do compost if it was available for the apartments here, but I can't talk the owners in to it.
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Did I miss the announcement about who the new Green editor is?
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-bring bags to grocery store
-buy used, not new clothes, furniture, toys when poss.
-library instead of bookstore
-cancel catalogs
-share magazines with friends
-no car
-wear more clothes in winter indoors, less clothes in summer= -less ac and heat
-don't flush toilet every time
-clean with borax and vinegar
-read newspapers online
-eat local where possible
-can/freeze veggies and fruit
-eat seasonally
-eat less meat
-live near work
-use clothesline, not dryer
-bring ziplock bags to grocery store and buy bulk, not packaged, items
This looks like a long list, but actually these are the easy things (except the no car one). I learned most of these watching people in Europe go about their daily lives.
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Saha:
The Green launch is still underway, but Janel wrote about the upcoming site and its editors here.
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