You I added this You tube Video player here on the side and it is suppose to show videos related to what i right about in this blog here but i do not think that is what it is doing... I will try to fix that later on. But anyways... I would like to blog about this book that i am reading right now. It is called Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying and it is by David Bach. So far it seems to have just a lot of common tips like turning off the lights and driving less... but what I found really neat is that Bach suggests in the begining of the book you go to this website and calculate your eco-footprint. So I did that and it was fun, mine inst as low and i want it to be but i am working on it... It is much lower than the average Nevadans which i live with. And lower than the average American.
So As I continue to read the book i will try to write more of what i learn, but i wanna leave with a list of other books i wanna read that you should read too and the suggestion of finding a website like http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=myfootprint to calculate your foot print. This is not the website the book suggests but i thought this one was fun and broke it down in a more understandable way.
And thats all for now. I would love to hear from others about their footprints so please leave comments.And have a great day!
~Rachel
P.S Check this out!
http://www.newdream.org/
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About Me
- RachLuvzKeep'nItGreen
- My name is Rachel Lane and I am currently 18 years young. I have been a resident of the state of Nevada since I was born. I was born in the City of Las Vegas and I have lived in North Las Vegas up until last summer when I moved up to Reno to go to school. I have always been conscious of my impact on the environment and have been really into recycling and helping make our planet a safer place for all of us to live.I believe that the small things really do count, like turning off your lights when not in the room, or unplugging electronics not in use, but i feel like i need to be doing more...and i wanted to start by making this blog to keep track of how i am doing and to inform others of what they can do as well because we are all in this together. My Plan is like i said to keep track of my progress to become more green, and help others become more green along the way. I want to also talk about things i learn, and things i find interesting. I hope people come to read what i have to say and help me out as well. Maybe let me know what they wanna hear about..or any suggestions or stories they might have. So that's about it for now. So please help me keep it green.
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Dear Rachel,
I’m with the Center for a New American Dream. We saw that you posted about us, and thought you would be interested in checking out our new campaign. Last October, nearly 14,000 New Dreamers took the pledge to break their bottled water habit, reducing more than 46,000 pounds of carbon emissions in one month. That same month, we published our first edition of the Responsible Purchasing Network’s Guide to Bottled Water, our most popular RPN guide to date. We decided to take our work a few steps further and launched a multi-year campaign dedicated to Break the Bottled Water Habit at both the individual and institutional levels. We will have a pledge-based contest on our website starting in August, and the second edition of the RPN bottled water (or, more appropriately, bottle-less water) will also be released next month.
You might also be interested in checking out our two blogs. Our Carbon Conscious Consumer (C3) blog grew out of our C3 campaign. By getting people to change their daily habits in six simple ways we were able to eliminate 3.5 million pounds of carbon emissions. We also relaunched an old popular New Dream column as a blog in Live Green Below Your Means. The purpose of this blog is to prove that one doesn’t have to be rich to live green and provides easy and inexpensive tips to save the environment and some cash at the same time.
This is just a little of what we’re currently up to. Be sure to check out our website as we’re always adding new information and organizing campaigns to reduce our negative impact on the environment.
Thanks for supporting our work!
Sincerely,
Chris Mastin
Center for a New American Dream
Christopher@newdream.org
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