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10 Tips For Earth Day: Save Some Cents As Well

April 23, 2011 6 Comments

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Earth day is celebrated on April 22 each year. This year the day fell on a Friday, which, being a work day did not leave much opportunity to work towards the causes. We still managed to at least something.


Here is a list of very small contributions we made towards mother earth.

  1. I car pooled my colleague to work, saving his quarter gallon of gas and a lesser carbon dioxide emission.
  2. After returning from work, I re planted my potted Bougainvillea on the lawn next to my home, yes they allow residents to grow small plants on landscaped gardens. My Bougainvillea refused to flower for more than one year. May be now it will change its mind and give the area, near our home, a fresh new look. I will watch out for lawn mowers to arrive next week. In case they want to take it out, I will prevent them, got a few neighbors’ support as well.
  3. I converted to e-delivery of statements and forms from the only remaining paper mailer, my brokerage account. I wonder why I didn’t convert this one earlier. Was I waiting for earth day?
  4. I switched off AC for 2 hours and sat on the patio in the evening. With South Florida weather, you can not just sit inside with AC off, at this time of the year. It was great to just sit on the patio and watch the moon reflecting on the lake, and, occasional sounds of movement inside the water was terrific too. While seating, I was reading the nice comments you started posting on this blog. It was so much fulfilling. We didn’t eat out too, because  it was a ‘no unnecessary drive’ day. Generally Friday evening is our eating out day.
  5. While going to bed I increased the thermostat to 76F, it stays on 75F other days, I didn’t feel any discomfort.
  6. I planned on to give our old clothes to Goodwill, will do it as soon as we make them wear ready.
  7. We didn’t watch TV entire day, in fact we plugged off the entertainment unit, which saved the standby power consumption by TV, DVD player and home theater and sound mixer.
  8. Switch off home phone after enabling call forwarding to cell phone, with three handsets always on, home phone standby power consumption was no smaller than what entertainment system consumes.
  9. We walked for 30 minutes after dinner, read a few green tips from other blogs. You can read this blog, I liked it and subscribed as well.
  10. I drafted this blog post to help inspire people to do something useful on earth day, may be next year. Or better, you can celebrate a belated earth day! I think, I saved a few cents as well celebrating earth day.

 

Thank you to all who had commented on my previous blogs. your words of encouragement is what I need to keep going on this. I Sincerely thank all the readers, even those who didn’t comment. Giving is always more satisfying than receiving.

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    May 28, 2011 at 8:40 AM

    I’ve recently started a blog, the information you provide on this site has helped me tremendously. Thank you for all of your time & work.

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      May 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM

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    May 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!

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      May 29, 2011 at 2:31 PM

      Thanks Martin, that you liked it. Hey I saw your URL, I think you are a Java guy too, like I am! In my day work I do manage people developing Java programs. And I was a java programmer not too long ago. Welcome to my blog and your nice comment.

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    June 4, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    Thank you, I have recently been searching for information about this topic for ages and yours is the best I have discovered so far.

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      June 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM

      Thank you Emerita! Please suggest what other topics you are interested in knowing more about?

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