At my house, we:
- replaced all incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent (and haven't had to change a one yet! 3 years and counting!)
- recycle paper, plastic, glass and steel cans. Our city even has a curbside recycling program. All we do is put it in the container they supplied and set it on the curb on pick up day. How easy is that? Cost? $4 bucks a month for 2 pick-ups per month.
- turn off lights when we're not in that room; don't use lights when there's sunlight (we have skylights)
- combine trips in the car so that all necessary trips are done in sequence, in a logical order so that we don't do a lot of backtracking.
- purchase in bulk to reduce packaging waste
- compost (or feed to the bunnies) veggie peels and other organic waste
- buy organic when we can afford it (we limit this to things like grapes, carrots, apples, nectarines and other produce with thin skins that are heavily coated in pesticides/fungicides)
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