Going green in your apartment, office or college

Green lifestyle saves environment and going green in your apartment, office or college help you reduce your carbon foot print. Following green tips help you to save energy, water and environment.

• Downloading your favorite music: CD cases are often made with polyvinyl chloride, which doesn’t recycle easily. By downloading new music you reduce production costs, packaging and CDs that eventually end up in the landfill.

• Watering lawn: Watering your lawn every day does more harm than good. By watering less, you can make your grass grow roots that are deeper and healthier. Daily watering produces shallow roots.

• Go Soy With Your Candles: Soy candles are free of petroleum, unlike conventional wax candles, and are nearly soot-free so they won’t pollute the air in your apartment or leave those nasty smoke marks on your walls. They burn up to 50% longer than wax candles and cost about the same.

• Go green at college: Sharing a textbook with someone else who is taking the class helps save paper and will contribute to your efforts to go green at college.

• Make it a habit to turn off the lights: Make it a habit to turn off the lights when you're leaving any room for 15 minutes or more and utilize natural light when you can.

• switch to LCD monitors and TVs: We must switch to LCD monitors and TVs at home and at work as these consume less energy and are far less harmful to human eyes and body by virtue of their reduced emissions. The costs have also come down these days.