Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
Tired of all the paper associated with credit card bills and your electricity statement? You may soon have one less piece to worry about.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has certified ecoEnvelopes’ reusable envelopes for use in U.S. mail. These allow for the initial envelope to also be used as the reply envelope.
While there is no word on which companies will utilize this service, it has the potential to save 80 billion reply envelopes from being processed.
Regardless, you can recycle your commercial mail using Earth 911’s recycling locator. Check out some of the benefits of paper recycling.
