Green Your Fourth: Cleaner CoalSierra Club-Green Life: 6.27.2011
Tip #1: Skip the Coal
Independence Day is, from sea to shining sea, a glorious holiday. This year, your festivities can help protect those purple mountain majesties. This week’s tips tell you how.
To help lessen the 225,000 tons of carbon emitted from Independence Day grilling alone, opt for an electric or propane-powered grill, or a solar oven, over one that burns through charcoal. If you’ve only got a coal-fired cooker and can’t replace it yet, choose briquettes* made of invasive trees, or biomass pellets from sustainably managed forests.
Not sure how to find those? Look for products marked with this seal or this one.
*Eco-Friendly Charcoal
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