Cindy's Tips for Green Living

Ex-supermodel offers hints for an ecological family

By Clay Dillow, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 22, 2008 3:07 PM CDT

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Cindy's Tips for Green Living — Tens of billions of plastic bottles clog landfills and deposit petroleum-based waste into the soil every year. Families can reduce their impact by drinking filtered tap water from reusable containers. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

“We all want to live a little greener,” ex-supermodel and mom Cindy Crawford writes in The Daily Green. The key for moms is making small changes that mesh with hectic household living:

Filter your tap water and use a reusable bottle. Thirty-eight billion bottles end up in landfills each year—why add to the pile?

Unplug. Even turned off, appliances drain 40% of a home's power.
Wash with cold water. It saves energy, and concentrated detergent cuts down on container waste.
Look up phone numbers online. Phone books take up nearly 10% of space at landfills.

For Cindy's full list, click on the link below. (Read more Cindy Crawford stories.)