How to Green Up Your Dorm Room

Just because you’re at college, on your own for the first time, doesn’t mean you have to join the millions of students across the country who generate thousands of tons of garbage each year due to poor choices in furniture and accessories.  Treehugger has a great guide over at Planet Green for greening up your dorm room, with tips ranging from using power strips instead of extension cords and picking out the right lighting to scoring free stuff and doing without disposables.

From Planet Green:

Beyond the actual stuff you’ll need, going green in your dorm room is also about adopting a green point of view. For example, instead of loading up on bottled water to help stay hydrated during all-night study sessions, grab a BPA-free water bottle (like a Bilt, Sigg or Kleen Kanteen) and a tabletop water filter, or a filtering system that you can keep in the fridge. Rather than running extension cords everywhere to power your electronic gear, put them all on power strips, so you can easily keep them from sucking too much phantom power out of the electricity grid. Instead of using plug-in air fresheners, stock up on plants that improve indoor air quality to help keep your room smelling fresh without all that toxic stinky stuff.

Read through the whole article to get facts on colleges and universities going green as well as links to dozens more college tips.

Link [Planet Green] via [Treehugger]

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