Reducing Your Lifelong Pile of Paper
Paper goes in and out of our lives without us realizing just how much we consume. Here are some tree-saving tips to help reduce paper waste:

- Avoid using paper napkins in restaurants and paper plates at home.

- Pick and choose what you need to print and use both sides of the paper when you print.

- Make sure all paper you buy, from toilet paper to computer paper, is from recycled sources.

- Reuse paper bags and shred receipts and bills and compost them.

- Share magazines between yourself and friends and send any unwanted catalogs back to the sender.

- Reuse envelopes and make your own cards.

- Never check off a box that asks if you want "more information"; it's an invitation for junk mail.

- If your office doesn't already use recycled paper, ask the person in charge of office supplies to make the switch.  And participate in or implement a recycling program at your office, too! 

Source:  http://www.ecollo.com/  

Reusable Shopping Bags--the Only Way to Go!
Sandra Passerini Champion Lambda Nu '90  has sent us a great tip on some unique reusable shopping bags.  She writes, "One of the best products I have found are Environsax.  For about $35.00, you get 5 brightly colored bags that roll up very small and fit in their own pouch!  For those who carry large purses, they fit great! When you unroll a bag, it will hold about two plastic bags' worth of groceries, and with the large handle you can put it over your shoulder, thus less trips into the house!  I get complements all the time!  One caution … the grocery clerks like to over-fill the bags! I feel great when I get home from shopping and I do not have a zillion plastic bags to deal with.  I just roll them back up and they are ready for the next trip."
 
You can visit Envirosax at http://www.envirosax.com/ .  Thanks, Sandie, for this great tip!  If you have a tip or trick to help us go green, please contact me at PGG@dzshq.com .  I'd love to hear how you can help all of us go and stay green, and we'll post it to the blog!

Healthy "Green" Recipes
Do you have a great organic, vegetarian, or vegan recipe you'd like to share?  We're looking for healthy green recipes to post to the blog, so please e-mail your favorites to me at PGG@dzshq.com and look for your recipe soon on The Green Blog!