Green Tip Archives
- Green Your Space: Take some time and identify ways to save energy, improve efficiency, and increase savings - which you will really appreciate when you pay your energy bill.
- Know your surroundings: Take a minute to familiarize yourself with your "green" surroundings.
- Simplify and save: Do you really need more than one refrigerator, coffee maker, printer or copier in your home or office?
- Revise Your Plans: Each campus building has its own energy usage plan. A little revision could make a big cost-saving difference.
- Set Your Midnight Sun: That's what you get when you light a building at night, along with a higher energy bill.
- De-illuminate: Just because you have lights, you don't have to use them.
- Exorcise your phantoms: If it's plugged in, it's probably using power.
- De-water: Is all the water that you use absolutely necessary?
- Shrink your paper trail: Is every piece of paper you use a necessity?
- Lighten your packaging footprint: Save some green for you, ISU and the earth by reducing your packaging footprint.
- Direct your trash: Before trashing your unneeded things, consider other options.
- Rest your car: Giving your car a break, can also give you and the environment a break.
- Be a czar: Take the info you've learned and make a difference.
- Finish it Green: This Live Green Tip offers four easy, yet impactful things to do to finish your semester - Green.
