Okay, here is one for the casual fans among us and the fashion mavens too. Same TIME magazine article as the last tips:
1. Wear "vintage" clothing. What they suggest is not just hitting the Goodwill (although there are those among us who love to do just that) but also to donate your clothes to organizations like homeless shelters or take them to resale shops who deal in "professional" clothes. Besides reducing the amount of materials used to produce new garments, it turns out that cotton accounts for less than 3% of the land farmed globally, but about a quarter of the pesticides.....And giving clothes to people like the homeless or battered women's shelters is just a good thing to do besides the recycling aspect of it.
The best part of this one was the other way to get rid of old clothes and get new ones---throw a closet party--invite friends over and everyone brings a few items to trade.
2. Okay, this one is primarily for the gentlemen. It seems that in 2005 Japanese "salarymen" swapped their trademark dark blue business suits for open collars and light tropical colors as part of the government's effort to save energy by keeping it's office temperatures at 82 degrees throughout the summer. In one summr of not wearing suits and ties Japan cut an estimated 79,000 TONS of co2. Casual Friday everyday, all summer? Hey, if any of you work in companies with large offices or have been in a hotel you know that the suits and ties are to help keep people warm because air conditioning is frigid! 82 might be a bit much but most folks can be pretty comfortable anywhere between 72 and 80.
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