Go Green tips for March 11th

Gotta tip you want to share with Sarah and the Go Green Ride at Five? Email her: sarah@921wvtk.com!

Here Sarah's groovy green tips for Thursday, March 11th:


• More uses for your outdated phone book: shred pages and use as pet bedding, save it to crumple up as padding for packing fragile objects or use it as kindling in your fire place, or charcoal grill—uh-huh! Year round usage.
• Keep forgetting your shopping bags? Why not just leave them in your car, or at lease a few of them, anyway? You’ll never have an excuse not to use them! By the way, if you forget them in your car, a clerk will watch your basket while you run back out to get them.

How energy efficient is your office? Be bright about light: Artificial lighting accounts for 44 percent of the electricity use in office buildings.

• Turn off the lights when you're leaving any room for 15 minutes or more and utilize natural light when you can.
• Buy Energy Star-rated light bulbs and fixtures, which use at least 2/3 less energy than regular lighting, and install timers or motion sensors that automatically shut off lights when they're not needed.