How Big are your Feet?

Do you know how big your feet are? Here's a better question - do you know what your "carbon footprint" is? Even if you don't, let me give you an easy way to figure it out - if you drive everywhere, fly everywhere, or travel a lot, then you are contributing more than your share of CO2 to the air and could probably stand to look at alternative ways of transportation, when possible.

Most of us simply are not aware of what we are doing that could easily be rerouted to a "greener" alternative. The first step is to calculate your "carbon footprint".

Online tools such as GlobalForce's various carbon calculators will help you determine these, and give you ways to "offset" your necessary carbon emissions through other actions, like riding a bike if the errand is 2-3 miles instead of using a car, walking to a friend's house in your neighborhood, buying eco-friendly products that don't hurt your family or the environment, or planting a garden or a tree.

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I have found some cool things out about trees recently. I always knew they were great to have around - that is why I love living in NC with its beautiful trees and rolling hills - I love walking in my neighborhood and looking at the variety of trees we have here.

But did you know that a little change in our daily habits could make a big difference to these trees? Deforestation is happening at an alarming rate, driven by our consumerism and ignorance of the cost of virgin tree fiber vs. recycled products (paper towels, toilet paper, etc).

In my newsletter this week, I give these mind-boggling statistics, found by Seventh Generation -

if every household in the U.S. replaced just ONE 4 pack of 400-sheet virgin fiber toilet paper with a 100% recycled package - we could save:
 

--1,450,000 trees

--3.7 million cubic feet of landfill space

--5.23 million gallons of water (a year's supply for 4,100 families of 4!)

--and avoid 89,000 lbs of pollution!

So that's your tip for the week! Buy some recycled paper products today and do your part for the planet! :) 

Make sure you check out our green community at www.facebook.com/globalforce and get some more green tips from our members throughout the week - have a great green week!