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| To everything, there is a season. Turn! Turn! Turn! You know how wonderful a forest smells? That aroma of dense, healthy, thriving plants? That's naturally occurring |
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| Who says all good things must come to an end? Recycling. Buying time from nature so our kids can enjoy it more. Embracing |
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| Thirsty? Drain cleaner is probably not what you had in mind. Flushing expired pharmaceuticals down the toilet. Pouring used motor oil in the storm drain. Tossing leftover paint into the trash. However it's done, |
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| What happens to your trash once you toss it? A lot, actually. We know it's easy to do - put the trash on the curb and forget it ever existed. The thing is - it does still exist.
And we know that trash is like a lot of things - out of sight, out of mind. That's why trash is |
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| Got Funding? Like a lot of good things, being kind to the environment costs money.on a large scale, that is. While it costs you nothing to separate your paper and plastics at home, city- or area-wide recycling centers |
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© copyright 2001
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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If you open the dishwasher before the dry cycle, you'll conserve energy and add humidity to the air. Air-drying your dishes this way in winter will help lower your electric bill.
You can conserve energy and lower your electric bill by having your water heater insulated and setting the water temperature at 130 degrees or lower.
If you live in a multi-story home, you should set upstairs ceiling fans to the winter setting in summer. This will drive the cooler downstairs air up and keep the entire house cool while requiring less air conditioning.
During the winter, you should lower your house temperature by one degree for every hour you're away or asleep.
To conserve energy, you can close off your fireplace with a glass door unit.
Get off junk mail lists. Write: Direct Mail Advertising Association, 6 East 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017, or use the online form at The Direct Marketing Association's Web site.
You should never throw away hazardous substances such as paint thinner or furniture polish. Bring them to your local collection site or give them away to people or organizations that will use them.
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