Keep Your Habits Green

Are you one of those people who can't function without a cup of coffee everyday? Who makes a trip to the grocery store 4 times a week? Who keeps bottled water in the house at all times? If you are, odds are you are not being very green. More than 365 paper cups a year, more than 500 paper and plastic bags a year, and more than 1000 plastic water bottles in a year is not a good record, especially when many other people are doing the exact same thing. Today there are many other alternatives such as an "I am not a paper cup" cup or a cloth grocery bag or a stainless steel bottle filled with tap water. By just one hundred people switching to these alternatives you could save many trees, 20 barrels of oil, and cover up that HUGE carbo footprint you used to leave. The Tyee puts it great: "We can destroy trees for pulp to make paper coffee cups, which, after 15 minutes of use, we throw in the garbage can. Then, we pick the cups up with pollution-belching trucks and throw them in a dump, where they rot and create more greenhouse gases."

OR, we could give the forests a coffee break and bring resuable materials when carrying out our nasty ungreen habits.