Burn Calories with These Green Activities

Going green is good for your health. Heck! It's good for the health of everyone on the planet. You'll have fewer headaches, breathe a better quality air in your home and you can even lose some weight. One great, green way to lose weight is to decrease the amount of meat in your diet. If that's not your beef, then why not try some of these calorie-burning, green activities.

All figures are for someone weighing 175 lbs. All figures are per hour.

These figures are from Discovery Health's Calories Calculator:

Feeding Small Farm Animals - 317 calories

Appliance Repair - 357 calories

Light Arts and Craft while Sitting - 119 calories

Moderate Arts and Crafts while Standing - 238 calories

Automobile Repair - 238 calories

Vigorous Bicycling - 793 calories

Bird watching - 198 calories

Building (Construction) - 436 calories

Composting - 396 calories

Light Canoeing - 238 calories

Cultivating Garden - 357 calories

Camping - 198 calories

Digging for Worms - 317 calories

Digging in the Garden - 396 calories

Driving a Scooter - 198 calories

Preparing Food - 198 calories

Fishing - 238 calories

Planting Seedling - 476 calories

Gardening - 317 calories

Hanging Storm Windows - 396 calories

Knitting - 119 calories

Hiking - 476 calories

Mowing Lawn with Push Mower - 476 calories

Raking the Lawn - 341 calories

Picking Food/Flowers From Garden - 238 calories

Remodeling - 436 calories

Light Repairs - 119 calories

Heavy Repairs - 238 calories

Sewing - 119 calories

Shoe Repair - 198 calories

Shoveling Snow - 476 calories

Cross-Country Skiing - 555 calories

Tilling Garden - 476 calories

Walking (For Exercise) - 301 calories

Weeding Garden - 357 Calories

Yard Work - 396 calories