Beginning Tips to Improve Air Quality

Clean, fresh air is great! Transportation, energy use, manufacturing processes, and food production are a few activities that humans are involved in that will influence air quality.

A few things we can do to keep our air clean:

• Keep crop residues on the soil to reduce blowing soil.
• Keep construction sites protected by vegetation, mulch, or wetted to reduce blowing soil.
• Plant trees.
• Combine several errands into each trip.
• Keep vehicles in top running condition with engines tuned and tires properly inflated.
• Use florescent lighting over incandescent where possible because it requires less engery.
• Buy only what you need. any wasted items require more energy to produce new.

What ideas do you have that we can add to the list?  Let us know.