Behind the scenes at our Glimcher malls, we're doing our part to help the environment by bringing these green efforts to the place you and your family love to shop:

• Using green paper products and recycled plastic trash liners in housekeeping
• Testing the use of green-labeled cleaning products
• Substituting air hand dryers for paper towels in public restrooms, which saves 24 trees for each hand dryer installed
• Changing to environmentally-friendly lighting or timed lighting systems to lower overall electricity consumption
• Installing skylight shading and screening to utilize existing light, but with better temperature control
• Introducing battery-powered T3 security vehicles to lower fuel consumption and enhance safety at the same time.

Some ways our Momtopia members are helping their families go green include:

• We recycle EVERYTHING we can! Along with keeping the a/c off until after 6 pm, conserving water with shorter showers, and using re-usable supplies like bags and cloth napkins.
  -Stockton, CA
• We use re-usable shopping bags, cloth diapers, Earth friendly soaps and cleaners.
  -Tampa, FL

Some other suggestions for ways to go green in your home are:

• Change your light bulbs- Replace regular light bulbs with fluorescent light bulbs and save nearly $30 in electricity costs over the bulbs' lifetime. If every American home replaced just one light bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year!
• Find the off switch- Leaving appliances in standby mode wastes significant amounts of energy. Turn off appliances such as computers, printers, stereo, televisions and DVD players when not in use.
• Drive smart- Don't idle your engine unnecessarily and don't make jack rabbit starts. Make sure your car is properly maintained, and the tires are properly inflated. Slow down- going 60 MPH instead of 70 saves 4 miles per gallon.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle- Reduce the amount of garbage you generate by looking for products that have less packaging. Buy recycled products. Reuse goods you don't need by donating them.
• Paper or plastic? Neither!- Take your own reusable bags to the grocery store and avoid having to choose between the lesser of two evils.
• Plant a tree- Trees absorb carbon dioxide- as much as a ton over the lifetime of the tree. Trees also provide shade, which can reduce heating/cooling bills.
• Keep your house not too hot, not too cold- Adjust your thermostat 2 degrees year round and save as much as 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. Cut your utility bills by up to 40% by purchasing energy efficient home products that display the federal government's Energy Star label.
• Don't wash your car in your driveway- The soap goes into the street, then into storm sewers and then into our waterways. Use a commercial car wash or even better- your own grass area- to keep the wash water contained and put it to even better use.
• Safely dispose of household hazardous waste- Many common chemicals you may have in your home, such as pesticides, solvents, rat poison, anti-freeze, and so forth, can pose hazards to people, pets and the environment if they are not disposed of properly. Take advantage of your local periodic household hazardous waste disposal events.