You can save 2400 lbs of CO2 per year by recycling just half of your household waste.
Plant a tree! One tree can absorb one ton of CO2 over its lifetime and offset 2000 miles of car travel.
Reduce Hot Water Use. When you wash your clothes in cold or warm water, you can save up to 500 lbs of CO2 each year.
Help light up the world! Change your regular bulb with a CFL bulb and save 150lbs of CO2 a year.
If 1 in 20 gym-goers uses a reusable water bottle instead of buying a bottle of water each time, we could save 29 million lbs of plastic.
Try vintage. Buying a shirt the second time around means you avoid consuming all the energy used in producing and shipping a new one.
Invite friends over for a closet swap, to which everyone brings a few items they want to trade. It's easy on the environment—and your wallet!
The average desktop computer, not including the monitor, consumes from 60 to 250 watts a day. A computer that is in use four hours a day and turned off the rest of the time would reduce the machine's CO2 emissions 83%, to just 139 lbs a year.
Use worn out t-shirts, towels and bed linens as rags for cleaning around the house. Pass along unwanted clothes to friends, family or charitable organizations
Each ton of recycled paper purchased saves 4,000 kW-h of energy, 7,000 gallons of water and 17 trees, and a tree has the capacity to filter up to 60lbs of pollutants from the air.
If every U.S. home viewed and paid its bills online, the switch would cut solid waste by 1.6 billion tons a year and curb greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.1 million tons a year.
Try bicycling. If every US commuter bicycled once or twice a week we could eliminate our oil consumption by 11%. That's all the oil supplied by the Middle East!
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