Collectively, small lifestyle changes can make a huge impact on the environment–and your life. Looking for happiness and health? What’s good for the environment is also, it turns out, great for you. Here’s a collection of tips from the No Impact community.
Cut trans fats and refined sugar from your diet entirely by cooking your own food. It’s faster, healthier, and less expensive than eating out.
Shopping at second-hand stores is fun, economical, and the best form of recycling.
Drinking tap instead of bottled water (filtered, if necessary) saves money, curbs the privatization of water, and keeps plastic bottles out of our landfills. Also eliminates the resources (like oil) used in making plastic bottles, and the energy spent in transporting plastic bottles filled with water.
Running your washing machine on a cold water cycle slashes your energy bills. Nearly 90% of the electricity used by a washing machine is for heating the water.