Are you looking for ways to reduce your carbon footprint? Here are some ways you can save the environment, time and even money:

Cleaning Products

• Use non-toxic dish digergent
• Use safe cleaning products either purchased or homemade
• Avoid spray products for cleaning, air-freshening and cooking

Water Use

• Do not let water run while doing tasks
• Install low-flow shower heads and faucet aerators
• Repair faucet leaks and toilet runs ummediately
• Take a shower rather than a bath and shower less often
• Wash dishes and laundry on full load

Food

• Buy fair trade products
• Buy organic producs
• Buy local produce and products
• Buy only what you will consume and use all you buy
• Put on your plate only what you will eat and then eat all on your plate.
• Eat fewer (or no) meat meal each week. Have a hungar meal each week.

Paper Use

• Use recycled, post consumer products for kitchen, bathroom and cleaning
• Avoid paper towels; use cloth napkins and handkerchiefs
• Use electronic media rather than paper. Avoid bright colored paper
• Use recycled, post consumer, acid free note/office paper or paper from tree farms.
• Use paper completely on both sides

Reduce/Recycle/Reuse

• Avoid use of paper, plastic and Styrofoam in plates, cups and utensils
• Recycle glass, tin plastic, newsprint, mixed paper, cardboard, etc.
• Recycle batteries, printer cartridges, cell phones, plastic bags
• Safely dispose of computers, printers, paint and other toxic products
• Don not put grease or strong chemicals down the drain
• Buy products with less packaging
• Compost food scraps and lawn clippings
• Use canvas bags for shopping or reuse paper/plastic when shopping
• When eating out, take your own container for leftovers.

Travel

• Purchase a high mileage car. Maintain engine/tire pressure. Change oil/air filter
• Do not drive over 55 mph. Drive more slowly with easy stops and starts. Do not idle.
• Where feasible walk, bicycle and carpool

Work

• Green the work space and work practices: office, shop, factory, classroom
• Advocate with employers to green your company
• Promote greening among workers, clients, customers, students

Nature

• Enjoy as kin the plants and pets in your living space
• Take ten minutes a day to enjoy/love nature. Take a retreat with nature
• Use devotional materials that enhance your love of nature and your care of it

Public Commitments

• Advocate for an environmentally friendly legislation and policies
• Restore a local habitiat; protest a local environmental violation
• Contribute to social justice organizations and environmental organizations
• Invest in socially responsible stocks and bonds that further eco-justice.