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.
Spend time with your friends or family by sharing stories that you’ve either made up or heard. You can also have story reading time with your family by taking turns reading the book aloud. Aside from being fun this saves money, allows you to spend quality time with your family, and can be very educational. If you run out of stories you can always get a library card.
This post was submitted by Clayton Green.
I carpool only on days that I need, I ride my bicycle, and public transportation.
This post was submitted by Keila.
Replace your heater that makes heat from fossil fuels with a heat pump that moves the heat available in the outside environment into the inside of your house.
This post was submitted by Patrick.
Install a shower waste heat recovery system to lower your hot water bill and save the environment. It preheats the incoming water with the heat still present in the water that leaves your shower through the drain.
This post was submitted by Patrick.
Since I do a lot of my own improvement projects and all my own maintenance, I have found that a typical weekend project can take several trips to the hardware or supply store because you forget stuff or run out of materials. Most people I have spoke to agree with this. What my neighbors and I started doing was buying extras of the small things that tend to tie up a project with wasted trips to hardware store (nails, screws, pipe fitting, etc). We save $$ by buying in bulk ‘contractor packs’ and we share the excess. We keep a rough idea of what we’ve got between us and we always discuss our needs before making the trip. And when we do make the inevitable trip, we ask the others what they need to save each other time and gas. I think taking community or neighborhood approaches can be a source for a lot of ideas, as the site touches on with cooking, book clubs, etc. The final results are:
Less trips to store=
more time
less gas
less stress
Buying in bulk=
having leftover materials to share
less cost per item
This post was submitted by Jeremy.