Ways to live a greener lifestyle in cities
Updated: 2015-12-15 07:43
By Doug Woodring, Kayleigh Sutton(chinadaily.com.cn)
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You may read electric newspaper and books instead of their printed versions. The same goes with your e-mail, a paper, etc. [File photo] |
10.Go digital
Bills and banking can be done online in a completely paperless way, saving an abundance of trees that would have been used to send you your latest statement. Use your printer less, an at least print on both sides of the paper if you need to print. You can also read morning headlines from the press online. Try to unsubscribe from as much junk mail as possible! If you don't use it, you don't really need it!
Hopefully these tips are something that will not require too much effort on your part, but can make you feel that sense of Pride that you are doing your part. Once these steps become normal, and part of your daily life without having to remember them, you can then start working on the next level of changes to your lifestyle and consumption patterns which will not decrease your happiness in life, but in fact, may actually help, as your sense of Pride will become even stronger, and eventually inspiring others around you to follow suit.
About the author
Doug Woodring is the co-founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance, a NGO working on eliminating the plastic pollution and other ocean issues. Woodring has been on the advisory board of the XPrize, and The Economist's World Ocean Summit.
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