Saturdays I call “Sensible Saturday” on my blog. It’s a day when I tell about new inventions or ideas aimed at saving our planet, or I give suggestions for little things anyone can do. Those suggestions are simple, easy, and often save money. If you’d like to try some of them, you can find an abundance of them in my FREE e-book, Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. More than 2200 people have already downloaded it. You can find it at your favorite e-book seller or go to Smashwords.com and search Jackie O’Donnell. Again, it’s totally free for you to download and use.
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Grow a Healthy Adult
Help your kids avoid respiratory problems as adults by having greenery around your home now. So says new research. They’ve discovered that children who grow up playing in and around green space are less prone to asthma and wheezing during adulthood. Read more about this at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180918180504.htm
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
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Cleaning Pools, Spas, and Ponds
Where to drain your swimming pool, spa, or pond for cleaning or repairs? Not in the creek behind your house or into the street gutter, where it flows into the bay (both are illegal, harmful to the water supply, cause bank erosion). You can run it down the drain, to go through the sewage treatment process, but that wastes it. OR, instead, let the chlorine evaporate, then use the water to deep soak your lawns and plants.
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
Free Helpful App
Here’s a free app that tells you about products that are safe, green, healthy, and socially responsible: GoodGuide. Download it from itunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodguide/id294447660?mt=8
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
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It’s More than Air and Water
Bad water. Sickening air. That’s what comes to mind when we hear that we should “go green.” But the problem is larger.
This chart lists the major environmental issues we are facing and need to address.
Something to think about…and act on.
How Green is Your Seafood?
For today’s Sensible Saturday, I invite you to take a little quiz. It’s only 10 questions, and the answers are at the bottom. It’s on a webpage that I maintain, so, as with everything I do over cyber-space, you don’t need to sign up for anything and your mail address won’t be tracked.
Take the short quiz, How Green is My Seafood?, at http://holyfamilysanjose.org/documents/2014/9/How_Green_is_My_Seafood.pdf.
Your Smart Green Phone
Carry recycling information with you on your smart phone—what can be recycled, local recycling options, and recycling centers throughout the U.S. Download Earth911.com’s free app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/irecycle/id312708176.
[For more easy, money-saving, earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
Leave this World in Style
Planning for the inevitable? Think about going back to how things were done until a century ago (to stop grave-robbing). Have a green burial: no embalming, so no earth-harming formaldehyde; and caskets and shrouds made of biodegradable materials–maybe your favorite blanket. Be laid to rest in a park that’s dedicated to keeping the surroundings in a natural state. Be a style-setter, your final act showing your friends what “earth to earth” means to our planet. The bonus is that you save about half the cost of a regular burial.
[For more easy, money-saving, Eco-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/ view/7000, choose a format, and download to your computer or e-book device. Or download a free copy from your favorite e-tailer.]
Furniture-Buying Tip
Buying some pretty new wood furniture? Or other wood items? First, find out where the wood used for the item is coming from. If it’s from a rain forest, buy something else. Our dwindling rain forests are essential to life on Earth.
[For more easy, money-saving, Eco-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/ view/7000, choose a format, and download to your computer or e-book device. Or download a free copy from your favorite e-tailer.]