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March Madness Odds are that there will be many gatherings to watch the many games that comprise March Madness. Here are some tips on taking steps to lessen the environmental impact on both our spaces, bodies and the environment overall while enjoying the great game of basketball.

• Here are some tips on making things more green during March Madness.

• • Share a ride to that favorite sports bar to watch the games.
  • Lessen the impact on the trees: Imagine how much paper is wasted on copying and printing brackets every March? Use a paperless option readily available on Yahoo and other search engines. HERE

• • Prepare healthy snacks that will not add to “polluting” our bodies with unhealthy food that we will later regret.
    • Examples are: Carrot and Celery Sticks, Hummus Dip with Pita Chips, Apples, Oranges or any other kind of fresh fruit. Make a fruit salad. Make popcorn without all the trimmings such as butter and salt.
• Choose your drink: Water is the best choice for hydrating our bodies during those long exciting games. But don’t bring home water bottles, there are far too many of those in the environment already. Drink tap water or if you don’t like the taste, buy a filter for your faucet or a filtering jug. Fill a nice jug with water and flavor it with orange slices, lemon slices and strawberries, skip the sugar. It’s refreshing.
• If you must drink beer, don’t forget to recycle those cans and bottles.
• Winning the office pool is fun, but how much more gratifying would it be if the winner chose a Charity that can benefit from the office pool prize money.  Help make someone else’s environment a little better.

March 28th, 2011 at 09:01 pm by bibi in Environmental Impact, Living Green, March Madness

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