9/19/09

If you want to eat fresh fruit at the office, choose fruit that wraps and carries itself. Bananas, apples and citrus fruits are green choices because you can eat them without the use of utensils or excess packaging. When you're finished eating them, the core or peels can be tossed into the trash or saved and put into your compost bin at home.

9/18/09

Maybe expensive prices have you avoiding buying organic foods at the supermarket; so look for store brands instead. Many of these brands -- otherwise known as "generic" in the past -- have come a long way and now feature USDA-certified organic ingredients at reasonable prices. You can find everything from cereals, frozen vegetables, soy milk and much more at your local grocery store.

9/17/09

This may seem silly, but ditch the electric can opener altogether. According to The Daily Green, if everyone used a manual can opener instead of an electric one, we'd save $36 million in energy costs alone. An added bonus for going manual: If the power goes out, you can still open cans with ease.