5 Going Green Ideas for Lent

Wednesday was the first day of Lent. Many Christians take on spiritual disciplines for Lent. What if you incorporated a Green Habit for Lent?

Here are 5 easy ideas you can try:

1. Use cloth bags at the supermarket. Twelve million barrels of oil were used to make the 88.5 billion plastic bags consumed in the United States last year. And it takes four times more energy to make paper bags.

2. Stop buying bottled water. Here is an alternative.

3. Stop using toxic cleaning products and go with green cleaners. It will not only save you money from buying an endless array of chemicals from the store, but you will be healthier for it!

4. Visit CatalogChoice.org to stop unwanted catalogs. Did you know that each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed in the U.S.? All those catalogs require more than 53 million trees and 56 billion gallons of wastewater to produce. Clear out the clutter!

5. Cook! Prepared and packaged foods have more fat, more sugar, more salt, more preservatives, and more garbage waste than anything you can cook yourself. You can have a healthy meal on the table in 30 minutes. Here's one recommendation to help!