Avoid eating eggs

Not only is it unhealthy and high in cholesterol, but is cruel and inhumane as documented in this report.

As an alternate you can find a high fiber vegetarian breakfast.

Back to school tips from an adult

Got an email in my inbox today with tips on keeping the planet green. I have a good mind to share them: Back to school tips from an adult

Using organic soaps and shampoos and benifiting the enviorenment as well as your health

When using soap and shampoo in your bath or shower, you release common chemical, processed soap and shampoo into the environment. Processed shampoo is also not the best for your hair and scalp.

Everyday chemical waste is thrown into rivers, lakes and seas, harming the natural environment. By using the common chemical soap and shampoo, you only add more to that unhealthy waste.

But by switching to organic soap you not only benefit your health, but the environment. It may cost a little more than processed soap and processed shampoo, but if you're an environmentalist it's all worth the cost.

But before using these organic materials, be sure to ensure there are no health hazards as some organic products may have them. Read up on the ingredients and tests done on the specific brands that you posses.

Also ensure from the labels or online researching that these products have not been tested on animals.

If these products are not available at your local store, they can be ordered from online sites such as Amazon as seen here.

Read more on the benefits of using organic soap.

Use recharchable electric shavers instead of regular shaving kits

This post is for men who do shave. When shaving with a regular shaving kit as pictures below, you use up water resources to clean your blade and your face when removing the cream. This also produces a lot of necessary sewage waste. Shaving with a kit is also costly as you have to keep buying new cream sprays after they run out.

Shaving with a kit is consumption and produces water waste as well as costly:

Now let's look at electric shaving and how it's done. The benefits of electric shavers are:

1) Money saving. All you have to do is recharge the electric shaver when it runs out of power. No need to go out and buy shaving cream or a new shaving blade when it's rusted.

2) No need to use up water and produce unnecessary water waste.

As pictured below, electric shavers require no cream, or washing of the face or the blades. All they require is to be opened and have the cut hair be thrown out. No water, no cleaning or cream required:

If you have a long beard and need to cut it off, use a pair of scissors to shorten it as much as possible, then use an electric shaver to shave off the shortened hair.

Using an electric shaver is environmentally friendly as pointed in this post and saves you the money of having to constantly need to buy a new shaving kit each time.

Using acrylic food covers instead of plastic food wrap

Pictured above is what many people use to wrap and store unfinished food. But the problem is once used, this plastic wrap is thrown away into the garbage and not recyclable. Also when these wraps are used, users will have to keep buying new ones to replace them.

The solution to this is to use acrylic food covers because they can be used again and again and do not get thrown away. Acrylic food covers can come in glass or plastic like the ones pictured below:

By using acrylic covers instead of plastic wrap you do not produce waste and save money.

Avoid buying wooden products unless recycled and possible alternates to them

Most people buy wooden products while ignoring the fact that they came from cut down trees. These products vary from wooden toys to furniture. At many times people don't have to buy these. You can survive without them.

If you need furniture, try to buy shelves or tables or whatever you need of metal or solid plastic. This way you do not support a the logging industry which comes from deforestation and destruction of natural habitat.

Unless the wooden item shows it is from recycled wood, then don't buy it. You are strongly encouraged to buy a metallic or plastic equivalent of the wooden product(s) you intended to buy.

Below are some examples of the non-wooden items I recommend:

Underline your textbooks with pencils instead of highliting them with markers/highlighters

For those of you who are in college or university and highlight the textbooks you bought, you probably won't be able to sell them back because they are highlighted and cannot be removed. Pictured below is what I mean:

Once there is highlight on it, the bookstores most likely won't buy them back because of this. But if you use pencil to underline important text, you can later erase if after your course(s) is over and sell it back to the college or university bookstore.

By selling back books, you get them resold, reused and recycled. But if you highlight it, you can only use it once and may have to keep it, thus wasting paper resources.