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Looking for Ways to Help Save the Earth? Here Are Some Suggestions

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-- Robert C. Brouns, Rockville

Stop idling your vehicles. It pollutes the air, wastes gas and gets zero miles to the gallon. Don't use the car air conditioner when not necessary. Open the window.

-- Dorothy Bowen, Haymarket

Take shorter showers. Install water-saving fixtures. Wash your car more with a bucket, less with a hose. Design yard and garden around less water use and prevent erosion. Save your cold water when starting a shower to water your plants.

-- Rob Arner, Edinburg

Bring back the blue laws. Okay, call them green laws this time, and they can be more flexible. However, we can live without Best Buy on Sunday.


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