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Keep the environment in mind when making product selections.When it comes to groceries, we are all looking to save time and money. But don’t forget about our environment. There are simple steps you can take to shop green when selecting products:
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Home Green Home
While everything may be cold, snowy, and white outside, now is a good time of the year to focus on greening your home. Make it a resolution to continue simple habit changes throughout the New Year to make your “home sweet home” into a “home green home” in 2022. Here are some tips to get started:
Stuff the Turkey, Not the Trash
Regardless of how you’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving this year, you can still keep wasted food out of the picture by reaching for your favorite tips and tricks to avoid throwing out good ingredients and your holiday meal favorites! Check out some of our tips below.
Ways to waste less food this Thanksgiving:
Fall green living tips
Hop on a hayride, stuff a scarecrow, or pick a pumpkin. It is the time of year for pumpkin spice, apple cider, and all that the fall season brings. Autumn is here and what better time to prepare lawns and outdoor areas for the seasons ahead. Before you grab a rake, check out these fall lawn care and composting tips:
Try an organic-based mulch. Adding 2 to 3 inches of wood chips, shredded bark, shredded leaves, or straw can provide nutrients and shade out weeds in plant beds.
Important – do not allow mulch to touch tree trunks – this can affect root and overall tree health.
Safely manage weeds in non-toxic ways:
- pour boiling water over weeds and repeating to increase effectiveness;
- pull weeds by hand; or
- tame weeds between cracks and stone areas with vinegar (a high acid spray) to kill the above ground portion. Repeat to increase effectiveness.
Fall cleaning tips for purging old clothes
The calendar turns to another month and we are moving into fall. While this is a great time of the year to get outdoors and enjoy our environment — consider spending a bit of time indoors to clean out your clothing closet and prepare for the seasons ahead. As leaves will be falling off of the trees, before we know it, sweater weather will be here. Get your clothes ready and do so in a green way.
Closet clean out — save green
From clothing swaps, to hand me downs, to mixing and matching and adding fun accessories — clothes you already own can get a new look and extended life. Planning is key to saving green — the environment and money that is. Here are some tips to keep in mind:
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Latest News Headlines
- Saranac Lake school board president resigns
- John Ernst's Adirondack legacy
- APA, DEC seek feedback on North Hudson campground plan
- Protect the Adirondacks lays groundwork for succession plan
- World University Games: Lake Placid gears up for January event
- A return to Pa’s Falls (and the mystery of the missing monuments)
- Return of the wolf?
- Lake Champlain's Split Rock is a good holiday hike
- Wanakena winter wonderland
- Salmon hatcheries funded by U.S. government haven’t ended fish’s decline
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