My friend Summer helped me put together 31 posts about living green and eco friendly tips to live by. Thanks to her help, I’ve compiled a list of 31 Green and Eco Friendly Tips and Ideas to help you turn your life more green. Here are those 31 tips!
2) How to Go Paperless Banking
3) Repurpose Tennis Shoes Through Reuse a Shoe
4) Donate Used Greeting Cards, Christmas Cards, Valentine’s Day Cards, Easter Cards, all occasion cards to St. Jude’s
5) Ways to Reuse Boxes before you recycle them
6) Eat Local, Fresh and Organic
7) How To Get Off Mass Mailing Lists (Go Electronic)
8 ) Use Eco Friendly, Natural, and green cleaning products
9) Give Live Flowers or Herbs instead of cut flowers as gifts
10) Bring Your Own Coffee Mug or Sleeve to the coffee shop
11) Use Green Compostable Utensils and Plates
12) Give digital versions of gifts, music, books, games. These types of gifts are all available digitally.
13) Dispose of Batteries Properly
14) Know Local Places to donate used toys, electronics, and other items. Donate used items to charity.
15) Find places to Sell Used Electronics
16) Ways to dispose of Christmas Lights
17) Adopt and Animal
18) Give the Gift of Experience
19) Find ways to properly dispose of electronics and make some money doing so
20) Use Green Gift Wrap Techniques
21) How to create an Eco Friendly Advent Calendar
22) How to find an Eco Christmas Tree
23) Turn Home Made Crafts into a Charity Project
24) Recycle Cell Phones through Operation Gratitude
25) Turn off Vampire Appliances
26) Lower Your Paper Trail by using electronic invitations and e-greeting cards.
27) Use a water filter instead of buying water bottles
28) Use Plantable Paper, Botanical Paper, and Tissue as gift wrap
29) Make Home Made Items whenever possible
30) Regift items that you do not need or do not want to donate. Do not throw them in the trash!
31) Earth Friendly Plant and tree Disposal