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Urban Composting

Open up a can of worms with your local government and lobby for increased compost awarness and usage. With a little effort, you can easily reduce much of your waste by composting.

Toilet Tips

In older toilets, reduce water use by placing a large plastic soda bottle full of pebbles in your tank. Check for leaks with a few drops of food color to see if it enters the bowl.

Under Pressure

Check your tire pressure regularly to make sure you're not wasting fuel and money running on improperly inflated tires. A $29 engine tune-up will also pay for itself in fuel savings quickly.

A Bright Idea

When you use compact fluorescent light bulbs in your home you save money, save energy, and reduce greenhouse gases.

Local Produce in Winter

When shopping for produce, buy organic and buy local. Then freeze your locally grown vegetables so you can enjoy them year round.

Face the Phantom

Phantom loads are caused by appliances that consume power when they are turned off. DVD and VCR players, TVs, computer peripherals and other devices waste billions of kilowatt-hours every year. Use a switch to kill the power to these devices.

Window Box Gardening

Living in an apartment is no excuse for not gardening. Many types of vegetables and herbs can be grown in containers on your window ledge. A watertight container, some potting soil and water, along with some seeds or starter plants, is all it takes to reap your own harvest.

Meatless Mondays

Eat less meat. Meat-based diets consume seven times more land than plant-based diets. Livestock account for more greenhouse gases than all the cars on the planet.

Solar Battery Charging

Consider switching to rechargeable batteries for your portable electronic devices. Then charge your batteries with a solar charger and you're saving a lot of energy and material over using disposable batteries.

Paper or Plastic?

How about neither! If we all carried reusable shopping bags, we would save countless tons of plastic (oil) and paper (trees). Whenever possible, avoid excessive wrapping and bagging.