50 Green Tips for Earth Day and Beyond

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I like your artical and it is helpful to a lot of people who are interested in doing something good for the environment, but there were a couple of thing that I found incorrect. Tip #2: you should only reuse water bottles that were meant to be reused, usually speaking in terms of thickness. Most of the one use water bottles are #1 plastic, they are extremely thin and can leach dangerous chemicals into your water. My second point is Tip #19: I do not feel it is neccesary to opt for either one, but if I had to I would personally choose plastic. Paper and plastic are both non-renerwable resouces that can be recycled, but when you put things into perspective, it takes less plastic to make a bag than it does paper. You will see that with the paper they must overlap it at the bottom, then glue it. The process is different for plastic. Thanks, FM

I have a blog at wordpress in which I wrote about things someone can so to help our enviorment. I added your article title to the comments for people to read about your ideas. Thanks, Debbie

I definitely agree with most of your tips here, but one stuck out and much head-shaking commenced. Number 23 is only about half right. Fuel-efficient cars are absolutely the way to go, compact and sub-compact cars that get 30+ miles to the gallon are a great idea. They save you green and help keep our planet green. However gasoline electric hybrid cars are a sham. While it's true they have much lower emmisions than standard vehicles, the costs of the manufacturing process are much greater than a standard gasoline vehicle and serve to easily offset any environmental gains by burning less gas on a daily basis. The raw materials and a dust-to-dust analysis of a hybrid car actually make it less eco-friendly than almost any other passenger vehicle out there. Please check out an economists analysis at http://www.fee.org/publications/the‐freeman/article.asp?aid=8130 The portion I'm refrencing is toward the bottom of the page and has the header "Dust to Dust."

Great article. Thanks for the plethora of relevant and important links!