Simply Saving

1. Skip the elevator and take the stairs
2. Check the air pressure in your tires since underinflated tires reduce fuel efficiency
3. Buy recycled toilet paper
4. Print on both sides of the paper
5. After you finish baking, turn off the oven and leave the door open to heat your home
6. Eat only sustainably harvested fish to help protect the health of the ocean 
7. Go carbon-neutral
8. To save gas, drive under 60 mph, or don’t drive as much
9. Don’t use pesticides on your lawn
10. Find new uses for old things
11. Compact your nonrecyclable trash and use fewer bags
12. Give your car a tune-up so it drives more efficiently
13. Buy things that will last
14. Stop idling in your car
15. Carpool

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1. Switch to a reusable coffee filter
2. Eat what’s in season
3. Start an eco-converstion everywhere you go
4. Sign up for online banking to stop receiving paper statements
5. Cancel the phone-book delivery
6. Install a ceiling fan to improve heat and cool-air circulation
7. Opt for an Energy Star–qualified laptop instead of a power-guzzling desktop
8. Replace your lightbulbs with compact fluorescent ones
9. Join a community supported agriculture (CSA) program (visit localharvest.com)
10. Volunteer your time at local conservation agencies
11. Conserve energy by using power strips (many electronics suck power even when off—but power strips in the “off” position don’t)
12. Don’t charge your cell phone overnight
13. Learn how to make clothes
14. Reuse your ziploc bags
15. Keep your shades down in the summer and up in the winter

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Have you checked out “We Are What We Do”?
From their site;

“We’re not another charity. We’re not an institution. We Are What We Do is a movement. We’d like to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. Whoever they are. And wherever they are. And that includes you.

We’ve created 100 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities and make our planet and the people on it much happier. We started by putting these actions into a book but it rather burst its bindings. Today it has gained momentum, gathered community and become a global movement with two books and over 500,000 registered actions”.

Here is a list of my current actions:

Decline plastic bags wherever possible.
Read a story with a child
Smile and smile back
Spend time with someone from a different generation
Turn off unnecessary lights
Use a mug not a plastic cup
Seize the moment
Recycle your books
Buy fairly traded products
Take time to listen
Don’t overfill your kettle
Shop locally
Hug someone
Grow something with a child
Learn more, do more
Practise good manners
Shut down your computer properly
Lose the plastic cup
Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
Support small businesses
Avoid waste
Say thanks
Spread the word

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