What You can Do at Work and Home

The collective impact of individuals making good choices can improve our environment tremendously. Here are a few ways you can help.

At Home

• Have your company adopt the following policy:
  
  We are committed to
  - Reducing, reusing, recycling
  - Health energy
  - Healthy transportation
  - Healthy air
  
  
• Add one of the following to your email signature:
  - Give the Earth a breather; don’t print this email if you don’t need to.
  - Trees are the Earth’s lungs; only print this email if absolutely necessary.
  - Love the Earth’s lungs as if they were your own; please don’t print this email unless you really need to.
  - (Company Name) is dedicated to reducing our environmental impact; save a tree by not printing this email.

At Work

• Remember wax paper? Use it instead of plastic wrap or aluminum foil. It’s biodegradable.
• Use your toaster oven instead of the big oven when possible.
• Use cloth instead of paper napkins.
• Pay your bills electronically; it saves trees and reduces air pollution.
• Buy locally grown food.
• Use recyclable shopping bags.
• Use travel mugs and refillable (not disposable) water bottles.
  

 Spread the word to family and friends.

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