2 EASY WAYS TO GO GREEN THIS MONTH!

1)  Change your lightbulbs! 

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, if every U.S. household replaced just one regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb, it would prevent 90 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the equivalent of taking 7.5 million cars off the road. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that by replacing regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs at the same minimal rate, Americans would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year.

On top of that, replacing one regular light bulb with an approved compact fluorescent light bulb would save consumers $30 in energy costs over the life of the bulb.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs use at least two-thirds less energy than standard incandescent bulbs to provide the same amount of light, and they last up to 10 times longer. Compact fluorescent light bulbs also generate 70 percent less heat, so they are safer to operate and can also reduce energy costs associated with cooling homes and offices.

2)  Change your t-shirts!

According to the EJF, as many as 77 million people are sickened from exposure to agricultural pesticides each year.  Of those, nearly 1 million are hospitalized.  Long-term exposure has been proven to cause various types of cancer, birth defects and neurological disorders.  All of this is preventable.

Conventional cotton is one of the most pesticide intensive crops on the planet, and nearly 1 BILLION lbs. of conventional cotton is grown to produce t-shirts each year.  If every conventional cotton t-shirt made this year was replaced with one made with organic cotton, we would save over 600 million lbs. of pesticides and conserve more than 240 BILLION gallons of water!

Please think about this the next time you need custom printed t-shirts.