One thing that ranks high on most women's lists are clothes. We want cute tops for low prices. While some "green" clothing is expensive, just as some "non-green" clothing is, it is possible to get a good price on some good-for-the-environment labels. This shirt is only $36, a comparable price to a shirt you might find at Kohl's. Your options for green clothing are not limited to women's t-shirts. Men and children also have options, including pants and shoes. Dresses come in "green", and so do bags. All it takes is a little shopping, and you can have eco friendly clothing just as quickly as normal clothing.

Here are some gas saving tips, because filling up at the gas station is like pulling teeth. You don't want to, but you have to. So, if you can save money even in a gas guzzler, it's always a good day.

1. Don't start and stop your car needlessly. Idling for one minute uses the same amount of gas as restarting your engine.
2. Accelerate slowly when starting from a dead stop.
3. Buy during the coolest time of the day. Gasoline is denser when it's cool, and gas pumps measure by volume, not density. Get more bang for you buck!
4. Never fill the gas tank higher than the first "click" of the pump. After that, it can slosh out and be lost anyways.
5. Go the speed limit. Not only is it safer, but it's cheaper to. Going 50 mph gives you 21% better mileage than going 65 or 70 mph.
6. Keep your windows up on the highway. They cause wind drag, losing you 10% efficiency.
7. When you will be stopped for a long time (i.e railroad crossings, long stop lights), put your AUTOMATIC car into neutral, allowing the transmission to cool.
8. Remove excess weight from trunk and inside car.
9. Accelerate before a hill, not while your on it.
10. Manual shift allows you to shift into highest gear as soon as possible. This saves you money.

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What good is trying to start a green revolution if no one is going to participate? And the best way to get people to participate in a cause during today's age of lay-offs, cut backs, and overall economic downturn, is to tell them they'll save money. At first, some green techniques seem expensive, and replacing something that works just fine seems a little crazy. However, in the long run, changing to greener cars, appliances, and even light bulbs is gonna save money in other aspects of life. And, Americans have always been multi-taskers in war, work, and other departments, so it only makes sense that they would want to save money and save the world all at the same time. People will only be open to drastically changing their lifestyles if it is for the better. Otherwise, "no thanks" is the response. So the job of green thinkers and tree huggers today is to convince the rest of society that going green is not just for hippies and free thinkers. It is for everyone, because the world and the economy belong to everyone.

Seventh Generation - Protecting Planet Home

This company has been around for 20 years but this is their first televised commercial. It is not very complex, but shows ordinary people carrying their groceries in and putting their cleaning products away, just like me and you. They are not living in mansions or wearing fancy clothes. The house shaped likes the earth at the end is not huge, but it represents a normal house in a main street neighborhood. Another advantage of these products, besides being good for the environment, is that they are also good for you. They do not give off the chemical odor of old cleaning products, and they are safe for children and animals.

Vanquish the vampires. Remember James Thurber's story about the aunt who worried that electricity was leaking out of the wall sockets? She had a point, of sorts. Appliances that include a clock or operate by a remote, as well as chargers, "are all sucking electricity even when you're not using them," says Dale Bryk of the National Resources Defense Council. Of the total energy used to run home electronics, 40% is consumed when the appliances are turned off.

The obvious way to pull the plug on so-called energy vampires is to do just that -- pull the plug. If you don't want to keep rebooting your PC, you can reduce the juice to it by putting both the monitor and the computer itself in sleep mode when they're not in use. Computers operating on snooze control use about 95% less electricity than those running on full power.

To get yours to nod off, go to the control panel, where you will likely see "sleep" or "hibernate." The sleep mode powers down the computer, whereas instructing it to "hibernate" effectively turns the PC off while preserving your applications. Both modes let you resume work where you left off.

If your computer powers down by default, you can adjust how long it waits before going to sleep -- say, from 30 minutes to 15 -- or set the monitor to power down first. Don't bother using a screen saver, which neither preserves your screen nor saves energy.



"My phone gives me an alert when it is done charging and recommends that I unplug the charger to save energy. I figured that leaving appliances plugged in when they are not being used sucked up energy, but I didn't know that it was so much. This is an extremely cost effective way to go green and save some green because pulling a plug on your appliances at night is free. I know that 40% of my energy bill back into my pocket would be a nice little bonus. It may seem like a hassle, but in the long run, five extra minutes unplugging unused appliances does a lot of good."- Jessica