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Tips for Caring for God's World

Do you care for the Environment? If not, why don't you? You should be concerned because our planet does have limited resources. You should be concerned for our children too. Your children and mine should not only enjoy the planet in their lifetime, they should be taught by our role modeling how to take care of God's beautiful world and pass it on to their children's children in a state that is still beautiful and a blessing to all that inhabit! So, if you're not sure how to start, here's some tips to get started. Enjoy Creation... and start now! -FullOnDave

1) Recycle... Every time you attempt to throw aluminum, cardboard, plastic, or bottles away, FEEL BAD that it will not be used again and CHANGE YOUR MIND. Take the extra minute and establish recycling bins at your residence and at your employment. Model recycling. After camping with your neighbors, offer to pick up everyone's aluminum and bottles and if they don't recycle at the campground, bring it home and recycle it there. Crazy as it sounds, you will feel good by doing so.

2) Burn less fossil fuel. By doing so, you contribute LESS carbon monoxide, fluorocarbons, and nitrous particles into the air. You also save money. Here's four ways to begin saving fossil fuel. 1) Drive less 2) Live CLOSER to work, school, & community. 3) Use public transportation at least once-a-week. 4) Ride your bike or walk once-a-week during the drier seasons.

3) If you own a boat, dirt bike, motorcycle, chainsaw, weedeater, leafblower, or generator with a 2-STOKE MOTOR, you can contribute OVER 50% LESS FILTH into the air and into our lakes by using SIGNITURE LOW-TOXIC TWO-STROKE OIL (or equivalent) available at Cabelas or Cabelas.com.

4) Use COMPACT or TUBE fluorescent lighting in your home and shop. Yes they cost 5x more than an incandescent bulb. However, they last 13x longer and each bulb saves monstrous amounts of coal and other natural fuels used to generate electricity.

5) Use RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES most everything. AAA, AA, C, D, & 9volt. They're good for 700 charges. In just two AA's lifetime, you toss 1398 LESS batteries--- or 43.68 pounds of lead-toxic trash. The Charger is ~$15 and rechargeable batteries run ~ $1.50 a piece at HarborFreight.com

6) Dispose of NiCad and NicMetal batteries found in portable drills, portable saws, etc. properly. They contain mercury. Mercury isn't good at typical disposal sites because it can seep into ground water and pollute streams.

7) If you change your own oil, don't dispose it in the corner of your backyard. Dispose used motor oil properly at disposal stations--- often a barrel is available at the place where you purchased your oil.

8) Avoid warming up your car. Start it and go.

9) If you own a diesel as I do and it's compatible with today's BioDiesel, consider burning a tank of BioDiesel on occasion. I realize it's extremely expensive, but it burns much cleaner!

10) Make your next home furnace, water-heater, and or cooking range a GAS UNIT (propane or natural gas) instead of replacing it with Electric.

11) Use less water when you shower, bathe, or wash your clothes. Use a low GPH nozzle and/or subtract minutes from water use when you. Both work. You will save tremendous amounts of money and water if you are a family with small children and choose to do your laundry with a front-load ENERGY-EFFICIENT washing machine.

12) Dispose dated or unused household chemicals at a Toxic Disposal Station once a year. This includes unused paints, fertilizers, dated or unused chemical cleaners, resins, stains, oils, etc.

13) When you go out for coffee, bring your own mug. Some stores like Starbucks give you a dime-off the price! By doing so uses LESS paper.



Thinking Greener, -FullOnDave