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Real world green is brought to you by Primo Water, bottles made from plants, not crude oil. Learn more at primowater.com. Hey everyone, I am Eric Rochow and this is Real World Green. Today's tip is healthy for you and green at the same time. Next time you are in your office or your apartment building and you are going to use the elevator, consider using the stairs instead. Elevators use quite a bit of power to move the elevator up and down, they have this very large electric motor. Stairs on the other hand, don't require any power and it makes you healthy as well. It helps tone your body, helps develop your cardio or aerobic activity, I think they call that. It really helps the quads which is the muscles in the front of your thigh here and it also helps really tone this part of your body back here, the glutes, which I could give some toning off obviously. But anyway, you know what I mean. First of all, make sure the stairs are safe of course, I have seen a lot of buildings not have kind of an open stair rail design which is really great. If you feel a least bit nervous don't use the stair rail there. Consider using the stairs that are part maybe, walking up and down the stairs there, some great -- bugs are biting while I am talking about stairs. Anyway, but you know what I mean. This is one of those simple things you can do. In my apartment building when I am going to do the laundry, I just run down the stairs with the laundry thing up and down and that's kind of like my built-in exercise, it's part of day. It's simple, it works. I am being bitten by flies as I stand here. So anyway, there you go. Another simple green tip for living here. Save some energy, tone your body a little bit. It's a good thing. Come to the Green House, green-house.tv, tell us your little tips. If you have some exercise tips maybe I am doing -- I could help me with. I can't talk. Anyway, I got to tone up, I will be strong. Alright, make it a great day. I will see you.