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  Download 10 Things you can do

1. Change your lightbulbs to compact fluorescent lightbulbs - not only are they more energy efficient, but they will save you money!

2. While traveling, pack your own bar of soap & bottle of shampoo and don't open the little soap & shampoo the hotel offers.

3. Bring your own reuseable tote bags to the grocery store instead of using paper or plastic bags.

4. Block junkmail. Call the companies and tell them to take you off their mailing lists (most junkmail will have a 1-800 number listed in their materials). Visit 41pounds.org for more information on how to block junkmail.

5. When you pick up take out food, ask them to hold the condiments and utensils - use your own if you are going to eat at home.

6. Plant a tree for every trip you take. Trees convert CO2 to oxygen, they are our best defense against global warming.

7. Become vegetarian - or at least reduce your meat consumption. Leilani has been vegetarian for years. There are many reasons why being vegetarian is better for the environment, humans, and animals. Meat goes hand in hand with fossil fuels, rainforest destruction, water pollution, world hunger, and animal cruelty. You cannot call yourself an environmentalist and eat meat. For the facts on meat, click on the subjects listed below:

a. Fossil fuels and meat

b. Rainforest destruction and meat

c. Water resources and meat

d. World hunger and meat

e. Animal cruelty and meat

f. Albert Einstein said "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

g. Some of the most influential people in the world were vegetarian including: Leonardo DaVinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Plato, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, Charles Darwin, Voltaire, Albert Einstein, Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Vincent Van Gogh, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Some more recent additions to this list of cool vegetarians includes: Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks, Bob Marley, Paul McCartney, Bill Maher, River Phoenix, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Steve Jobs. Click here to see a full list of famous vegetarians.

8. Buy and use organic and natural products.

9. Tell the bartender or waiter to hold the straw.

10. Support your local farmers - the further away your groceries come from, the more CO2 was produced getting it to your house.

11. Recycle. Did you know it takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than to make it from raw materials?

12. Adjust your thermostat. In winter, lower it a few degrees and wear warmer clothing. In summer, raise it a few degrees and take off some clothes!

13. Use recycled paper towels and toilet paper. If your local grocery store doesn't carry recycled products, ask them why.

14. If you are visiting a conservation site (check out my eco links page), if they have ads on their site, click on them. The conservation site will collect money from the advertisers for every click they get. Personal plug: You may have noticed that I have google ads on this site ;)

The EPA estimates that Americans throw out 1 million more tons of waste per week during Thanksgiving and Christmas:

1. If you celebrate Christmas - instead of buying a chopped Christmas tree that you will use once and throw out with your garbage- buy a live tree, decorate it, when Christmas is over, go plant it!

2. If you are celebrating Christmas with lights, make sure they are LED lights.

3. If you have a cut Christmas tree, make sure you take it to be recycled for mulch.

4. If you are sending out Christmas cards, make sure they are printed on recycled paper or print your own!