Go Big by Going Green!

Chris Campbell | Jul 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

There’s more to going green that just driving a hybrid. Carting the family from place to place while helping preserve the planet is great, but there are ways to help save our planet without ever leaving the house. Living in Chicago doesn’t mean succumbing to the car exhaust and often a lack of space. Even a small home or apartment can offer a place to help conserve. Anyone can recycle, certainly in the city. There are programs in place that will allow most all of your waste products to be recycled.

Composting is also an eco-friendly option open to Chicago residents. Turn your old fruit and vegetable peels, old pieces of wood and grass shavings, even your weeds into usable green compost. A compost heap isn’t always a smelly proposition. There are self-contained composters that have no smell at all, and can provide an entire season worth of rich, fertile compost for you, using only a 3 by 5 section of yard! So do more than just “not-harming” the planet. Actively try to make it better.