1.Participate in your community's curbside recycling.
2.Save large amounts of paper by using your spell checker.
3.Reduce how much you throw away.-Americans
generate more trash per capital than people in any other
country. On average, each American discards about 4.4
pounds of solid waste every day. Only about a pound of that is
recycled, composted, or otherwise reused
4.Try to avoid using disposable products at all.
5.Consider buying in bulk. One 32-ounce bottle uses less packaging than two
16-ounce bottles. In addition, the larger bottle will probably cost less per ounce
than the other two combined
6. Use rechargeable batteries.
7. Change your habits in the kitchen.
8.Don't buy products that endanger animals.
9.Don't throw clothes away.
10. And since we're talking about not throwing items away – don't
throw furniture and other items away.
11. Buy organically-grown food.
12. Plant a tree! DUH!!!
13.Make your meals earth-friendly.
14. If you don't need the light – turn it off.
15. Can't afford a water-saving toilet?
16. Use fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs.
17. Participate in Together We Can Change The World Day on the first
18. If you can't use fluorescent lights, install low energy lights.
19.Go ahead and buy that new TV.
20. Speaking of T.V's.-Always use your television's on/off switch. Don't
leave it on standby as this wastes energy.
21. Refrigerators-America's refrigerators consume 7% of the nation'selectricity.
22.Watch those showers. Four people taking showers every
day for just 5 minutes use 700 gallons of water in one week.
23. Use cold water instead of hot to operate your garbage disposal.
24.The average American family uses 350 gallons of
water each day!
25.The average American family uses 350 gallons of
water each day!
26. Don't use the oven to heat your kitchen.
27.Turn your thermostat down.
28. The average yearly cost of heat for an electrically-heated home is
about 58 cents per square foot of living area.
29. If your home has individual room heating systems such as
baseboards, wall heaters and ceiling cable heat, turn them off in rooms you
aren't using and keep the doors closed.
30. Consider installing solar cells, or photovoltaics (PVs).
31. Recycle your sneakers with Nike Reuse-A-Shoe.
32. Recycle your aluminum cans!
33.Does recycling your aluminum cans really make a difference?
Consider these facts:
Recycling cans takes one third as much energy as making them from bauxite
The electric and thermal energy required to replace the cans wasted since
1970 – 16 million tons of metal – is equivalent to about 342 million barrels of
crude oil – or 15 billion gallons of gasoline. Enough to supply the total energy
needs of 20 million homes for a year or supply 29 million cars with gasoline
for a full year.
Replacing one wasted can requires about
0.5kWh of electricity – enough to light a 100-
watt bulb for 5 hours, or to power an average
laptop computer for 11 hours
More than 2 million tons of coal were burned to
generate the thermal and electric energy required to
replace just half the cans wasted in the U.S. last year
Over 3 million tons of greenhouse gases were produced to replace the
aluminum cans trashed in 2001 with new cans made from virgin materials and
2 ½ billion gallons of water were used.
34. Please don't litter!
35.Ever thought of "driving vegetarian"? You can drive your car on 100%
used vegetable oil.
36.Consider composting.
37.Consider purchasing all natural furniture.
38. Use wood products that have the FSC (Forest
Stewardship Council) logo
39. Kill roaches naturally
40.Recycle your electronic gadgets!
41. Don't use higher wattage bulbs than necessary.
and 42. EAT YOUR VEGGIES!