Go Green tips for March 12th

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 Friday, March 12th:

• More uses for your outdated phone book: shred pages and use as pet bedding, save it to crumple up as padding for packing fragile objects or use it as kindling in your fire place, or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 least 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.
• Planning a party? If you’re going to supply beer, buy a keg! It has a 68 percent lighter carbon footprint than the bottled stuff! And after I checked with the guys in the office, they say it’s a cheaper way to go!

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.
• It’s so easy to leave a room and if it’s not your office, it’s so easy to ignore that overhead light. Think of it this way, the money saved could end up in your paycheck!
• Buy Energy Star-rated light bulbs and fixtures, which use at least 2/3 less energy than regular lighting, or perhaps suggest the boss install timers or motion sensors that automatically shut off lights when they're not needed.