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 4th:
• A great way to help green up your workplace is to have your own dishes on site to use instead of disposable coffee cups, etc. Maybe your boss will give you some petty cash to go hit the local thrift store or Good Will for some dishware that everyone can take advantage of! Down with Chinet!
• Gotta window in your workplace or home office? Why not utilize natural light to work by if you can, afterall, the days are starting to get longer again. For heaven’s sake, you live in Vermont, the green mountain state…open the curtains and take a look outside!
• Finding yourself awash in clothes your kids have outgrown or toys they’ve tired of? Host a swap party. Don't buy more clothes or toys. Instead, host a party at which to swap toys and clothes with other parents. It’s a great excuse to break out the chips and salsa!
Mornings in my house are chaos to say the least. Trying to get kids dressed and fed (thank goodness I have at least one now that can do it for herself), backpacks and lunch bags packed…and then, remembering to dress and feed myself…hurry, hurry, flurry, flurry…Now, I have to admit, there are times, the convenience of single packaging wins out over budgetary constraints. Especially those little single pack apple sauces-love those. Well, here’s my wake-up call: All those juice boxes and snack packs pile up. Making lunches for school every day creates about 67 pounds of garbage per child - or more than 18,000 pounds per school - each year. That’s sobering. I know I spend more on the individually packaged lunch snacks-- up 50% more at times. And perhaps it wouldn’t be such a sacrifice to take time the night before and fill those re-usable containers, I mean, that’s what I bought them for! A little more work, yes, but worth it. Buying in bulk and prepackaging makes a lot of sense, financially and environmentally. Green…just do it…with 921 WVTK!
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