Easy Ideas
- Own a big vehicle? Carpool with friends to save fuel and cut your CO2 emission.
- Buy products made or farmed locally.
- Conserve energy by using your computer's "sleep mode" instead of a screensaver.
- When you donate to an organization, find out where the money goes and make sure the organization supports your values.
- Don't idle in the car. Idling wastes gas and money, and generates pollution and global warming causing emissions.
- Move your thermostat down two degrees in the winter and up two degrees in the summer.
- When washing your clothes, use cold water and make sure the washer is full.
- Check your car's air filter once a month. You can keep 100 lbs. of CO2 from entering our atmosphere.
- Make sure your printer paper is 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
- Walk, bike, carpool, or take mass transit. You'll save one pound of CO2 for every mile you don't drive!
- Install a low-flower shower head.
- Play a video game that gives back: head to www.gamesthatgive.net
- Buy organic food. It's better for you and our earth.
- Try going vegetarian at least once a week. Eating 20% less meat makes the same impact as switching to a hybrid car!
- Start reusing a reusable water bottle and just say no to plastic.
- Open your curtains on sunny days during the winter to heat your house.
- Having an event? A dance, a party, a get together? Provide a container for recyclables and others for trash.
- Buy minimally packaged goods and reduce garbage by up to 30%.
Action Guides
- Organize a letter writing campaign to get your school to lower its carbon footprint
- Make your prom or dance paperless
- Organize a meeting so people can share their ideas on how to stop global warming
- Eco-Education
- Find out your carbon footprint
- Have a green picnic. Here's how!
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- Shop and donate to Do Something automatically!
- Have a lights out day at your school
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- How to have a dress collection drive
- Green the greenery at your next school dance!
- Create a petition to have plastic banned in your neighborhood - one more voice means one more step in the right direction
- Organize an awareness campaign about the threat of global warming and things people can do to prevent it
- Organize a meeting so people can share their ideas about recycling and ways to get people to recycle
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- Wear a button on your jacket or bag to publicize your cause
- Explore your school’s digs
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- Green your eats for your prom or dance
- Participate in the 2008 Increase Your Green Competition
- Greenify your prom (or any dance)
- Chatter about your school's green
- Have a green slumber party to spread your eco-friendly savvy
- Be an Architect for a day
- Go to city hall and get them to start printing on recycled paper. Enlist family and friends to help!
- Start a Do Something Club at your school
- Travel in "green-style" to the prom or dance
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- Going to the beach? Make it an eco-friendly trip
