Las Vegas, have you gone green yet??
The new buzzword these days is ‘have you gone green?’ You see it and hear about it everywhere you turn. Sales of large SUVs are down and small car sales are way up. Have you purchased your hybrid vehicle yet? My in-laws live in San Francisco and our last trip there I noticed that many grocery stores do not offer plastic bags anymore. Other stores are charging a tax if you insist on a plastic bag. I was flipping through the channels the other day and came to a channel showing some guys working on a ‘69 Camaro; one of the guys was Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I have been a fan of the band since I was a kid so I decided to see what Anthony was doing on a car show. It ended up he had purchased the Camaro and was converting it to an electric car. I wasn’t even aware something like that could be done, but what a great idea!!
You may be asking what can I do to save the environment and can I really make a difference anyway. My wife and I have been putting in a conscience effort to do our part in “saving the environment.” Has it made a difference? I’m not really sure but I can tell you we both feel better about doing what we can. You can only control your own actions and I believe the more that people see the small minority making a difference the more popular it will become and hopefully someday it will be the new norm. There’s many things you can do to make a difference. You may be thinking where do I start and where should I focus my efforts? Well, I came across a book that may help; it is called The Green Book: the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen.
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Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times!
- Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You’ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City.
- Get a voice-mail service for your home phone. If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year!
With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.
Hopefully this will raise some awareness and get you all on the path to making the earth a cleaner, healthier place to live.
In turbulent times I always look for the bright side of things. The bright side to the housing bust is that if you’re a buyer you can find outstanding deals on homes. If you’re looking in the Henderson, Las Vegas Valley area for a home now is a great time to buy. You can purchase a home that was built and sold in 2006 for $320,000 for a cool $220,000. You can even go more extreme than this. My wife and I have always loved real estate and we have spent many a weekend looking at properties. There are several properties on the north-west side of Las Vegas that sold 2 years ago for almost $1,000,000 that are now on the market for $550,000!!