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Earth Day Quiz: Learn How to Save the Planet

Take our "Save the Planet" quiz to find out how you can reduce, recycle and reuse...and save money, too.

By Cynthia Ann Shannon

Published in : Home & Garden » Green Living

If you want to shrink the size of your carbon footprint on planet Earth, you can do it one small step at a time. Don't know where to start? In time for Earth Day on April 22, take this quiz. Find out how green you already are, and get some simple ideas on how you can reduce, recycle, reuse. Save the planet! And save money at the same time.

We’ve all heard about EnergyStar appliances and how they can save us money. But which of the following appliances are you actually better off repairing rather than replacing with a more energy-efficient one.

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