Green-Living Handouts

What you can do: go carbon neutral-part 1 (short .pdf file)

What you can do: go carbon neutral-part 2 (short .pdf file)

What you can do: go carbon neutral (long version text, html file)

GEAA urges everyone everywhere to protect our precious potable water resources (MSWord file)

Ten things you can do to save money at the pump (text, html file)

Lifestyle options (text, html file)

What you can do (.pdf file)

Tips from National Wildlife Federation (text html file)

Conservation and renewables (text html file)

Things you can do suggested by World Wildlife Fund (text html file)

Green-Living Websites:

NOTE: These websites are maintained by responsible conservation organizations with significant expertise on green-living measures. The sites may also have political or ideological content in addition to the practical green-living tips. Their inclusion here is not intended to endorse their political/ideological views but simply to provide ready access to the suggestions they offer for individual action. Such tips may be scattered in various parts of a site, requiring some searching. Remember, you can also find an abundance of other web-based ideas by using search engines to track particular topics (e.g., green energy, green house designs, green food shopping, and the like). Even in the area of green-living tips, sources may disagree. Rather than being offered as definitive, they are offered as good starting points for lifelong journeys of study, research, experimentation and using your own judgment for green living. Bon voyage!

Union of Concerned Scientists

Center for Resource Solutions

http://www.epa.gov/newsroom/gogreen (info on Environmental Protection Agency’s Go Green newsletter, which can be subscribed to by a-mail)

http://www.idealbite.com/tiplibrary/today (Ideal Bite Daily Tip – a daily e-mail tip for green living that is informative and fun at the same time).

http://www.thegreenguide.com/ (National Geographic’s Green Guide).

http://chapters.usgbc.org/centraltexas/ (“Green Guide at a Glance,” website of Central Texas chapter, U.S. Green Building Coalition [lower left corner])

http://www.greenhomeguide.org/ (U.S. Green Building Coalition’s “Green Home Guide”)

http://www.keepEarthbeautiful.org/ (a website run by a San Antonio-area nature group but with several pages of “how-to-live-green” info that can be useful in any part of the U.S. or the world)

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA041508.greenliving.Forbes.69868205.html (a Forbes article in the San Antonio Express-News, entitled “How to live green for a day.”)

Green-Living Books:

The Everything Green Living Book, by Diane Gow McDilda.

True Green: 100 everday ways you can contribute to a healthier planet, by Kim McKay andJenny Bonnin, a National Geographic publication.