Going Green for Less

Environmentally safe products often come with premium prices, but an article on _Kiplinger.com_ offered several ideas for doing right by the environment without doing wrong by your wallet. Assuming you’re now using compact fluorescent light bulbs (you _are_ using CFLs, aren’t you?), here are a few other ideas. Buy produce from . If more people did that it would reduce the need for produce to be shipped across the country, and that would mean less fuel use and less pollution. Also, replace standard 4.5 gallons-per-minute showerheads with . Making the switch can save up to 20,000 gallons of water per year.
h3(matt). Matt’s View
p(matt). One other idea is to replace car trips with walking or bike riding. I read recently that Americans use cars for 82 percent of their trips. By comparison, Germans use cars for just 48 percent of their trips. Could you replace at least one car trip per week–perhaps to the library or the grocery store? If we all did so we’d save money, ease the strain on the environment, and get in better shape.