by Leo Babauta of ZenHabits
In theory, most of us would like to help the environment, preserve the world’s natural beauty, and generally make this planet a better place to live.
In practice, we don’t necessarily have the time or energy to get involved in major projects, join Greenpeace, protest the corporate polluters, or make sweeping lifestyle changes. We want to help, but with all that’s going on in our lives, it gets put on the back burner.
But playing your part to help the environment doesn’t have to be difficult, time-consuming, or sweeping. You can help out in little ways, making gradual changes, baby steps.
Starting today.
Yes, you can do some of these tips today. You can probably do a dozen today, if you put an effort into it. But all you have to do is one of these tips. Just one.
You may already do some of these. If so, pat yourself on the back. Now choose another, and get started! You don’t have to tackle the entire list — it’s just a bunch of ideas to get you started. To show you how easy it can be to make small changes and help the environment.
Pick one, and start today.
- Take a shorter shower.
If you take long showers, consider cutting it short by a few minutes. You’ll conserve water, and the electricity needed to heat up the water, lowering your utility bills and reducing your energy consumption at the same time. - Use a rag or hand towel instead of napkins or paper towels.
Reusing items instead of using disposable items is almost always a better thing for the environment. Reduce the need to cut down trees, the power needed to turn them into napkins, and the space in the landfill once you throw them away. - Don’t print at least once today.
Instead of automatically hitting the “print” button, think of whether you really need a hardcopy of that document. Can you email it instead? File it on your computer instead of your file cabinet? Read it on the computer instead of on paper? You don’t have to eliminate printing entirely, but holding off on that “print” button once in awhile could greatly reduce your paper consumption. - Carpool once this week.
Have a friend or family member or co-worker who makes roughly the same commute as you? Try riding together at least once. It save on fuel consumption, cuts your fuel spending, reduces greenhouse emissions, and you can get a good conversation at the same time. - Turn off the TV for an hour.
Reduce your energy consumption and get outside and play a sport. Or garden. Or just take a walk. You get healthy and enjoy the natural beauty of your surroundings. - Turn off the lights.
If you leave a room, even for a little while, turn off the lights. You don’t need it, and it’s wasting energy. - Use a coffee mug instead of disposable.
If you routinely use disposable cups at work or on the road, use a ceramic coffee cup or a travel mug, reducing the amount of trash you throw away. - Use CFC light bulbs.
If your light bulb burns out, replace it with a Compact Flourescent bulb (those spiral-looking ones). They’re more expensive, but if you just replace them one at a time, it doesn’t cost much, and the energy savings is great. And as they last longer, over the long run, you’ll save money. - Skip the foil and plastic wrap.
Use reusable plastic food containers to store leftovers or other food in the fridge and cabinets, instead of disposable material. - Inflate your tires.
Many people don’t realize that their tires are under-inflated. Check the recommended pressure for your tires, and fill them up to that pressure. It only takes a few minutes, but it will save you on fuel consumption (a little) and more importantly, make your tires last longer and reduce the rubber that’s worn off your tires. - Clean up.
If you go to the beach or a park, leave it cleaner than when you got there. Pick up some cans and other trash that were there when you arrived. Takes a couple minutes, and makes the world a nicer place to live in. - Talk to your kids about the environment.
Just a 5-minute conversation every now and then about fuel consumption, greenhouse emissions, wasting food and trash, energy consumption, preserving habitats … this can help educate your children about the issues that will be affecting them tomorrow. And an educated population will do more to help the environment than anything else. - Reuse printed paper.
If you have non-sensitive documents that have been printed out, but are no longer needed, try marking the printed side, and using the clean side for non-official printing. In fact, if you can get your office to do this, you’ll save tons of paper a year. - Turn down your water heater.
Most people have their water heater’s thermostat turned up too high, wasting energy. Turn it down to 130 degrees, saving energy but still hot enough to kill bacteria. - Plant a tree.
It really doesn’t take much time, and over time more trees in your community can make a difference. Do a few every year, and encourage others to do the same. - Hang out your clothes.
If it’s a nice sunny day, hanging clothes only takes a few minutes, and you’re using solar power instead of electricity to do the job. It also makes your clothes last longer. - Buy a manual reel mower or electric mower.
If you’re looking for a new lawn mower, and you have a small yard, consider getting a manual one. They’re much advanced from the reel mowers of our grandparents’ generation, much quieter, cheaper, and they save on fuel and pollution. Electric mowers are also quieter and use much less energy. - Get a low-flow shower head.
Stop at the hardware store on your way home, and get a low-flow shower head. Takes a few minutes to install, and it’ll save gallons of water a day. - Lower your thermostats.
If you use heating, get by with less heat and wear warmer clothes. If you use air-conditioning, get by with less cooling and wear cooler clothes. - Participate or organize a clean-up.
Sure, this’ll take a little more of your time, but if you don’t have much to do on the weekends, this can be tremendously fun and fulfilling. Clean up a beach, a street, a park, a lake or a river. - Avoid fast food.
Instead, eat at home or at a sit-down restaurant. Fast food restaurants are one of the worst polluters of the environment, both in the massive amounts of beef they must raise, in the wasted packaging, and in the energy they use in so many ways. And they’re tremendously unhealthy. - Use acryllic paint.
Oil-based paints are toxic and create a lot of pollution during manufacturing. Instead, if you’re going to buy paint, buy acryllic. - Coat your roof.
This’ll take up an afternoon, but you only have to do it once every few years. And it’ll save you a lot of money and energy in heating and cooling over the long-term, more than making up for the cost of paint. - Clean your filters.
Clean the filters of your air-conditioners once a month to improve energy efficiency. While you’re at it, change your car’s filters as recommended in your manual. - Telecommute.
I know, sounds great, where do I sign up? But if you talk to your employer about even a limited telecommuting schedule, you can save a lot of fuel and time, and be more productive at the same time. Just be sure to get a lot more done at home than you do at work to make your case for an expanded telecommuting schedule down the road. - Wash clothes in cold water.
Hot water is unnecessary for most clothes. When needed, use warm water. - Fill your toilet tank.
Put a plastic bottle or two, filled with water and rocks, in your tank to reduce the amount of water used in each flush. - Buy recycled products.
As much as possible, get the recycled version of products you buy. - Recycle.
Sure, it’s a regular practice in some places, with curb-side pickup of recycled waste. But in other places, there’s no such thing. Instead, create a few containers for paper, plastic and aluminum waste in your home or office. When it’s full, drop it off at a local recycling center (look in your phone book) on your errands day. - Buy a smaller car.
You won’t be able to do this today, probably, but the next time you’re in the market for an automobile, get a smaller and energy-efficient car rather than a big, lumbering one. It’s one of the best things you can do to reduce your fuel consumption. - Buy a smaller home.
The next time you’re home-shopping, instead of buying the McMansion, look for a smaller home that’s big enough to meet your needs comfortably. Reducing the amount of stuff you own is a good way to need less house. It’s cheaper, and requires less energy to heat and cool. And easier to clean at the same time. - Look for energy efficiency.
When you’re looking to buy appliances, be sure to research the most energy-efficient ones. They may cost a little more, but they’ll more than make up for that in the long run with lower energy bills. - Water grass early in the morning.
Reduces the amount of water you need to keep your grass looking fabulous. - Plant shade trees near your house.
It’ll take awhile before they can make a difference, but shade trees greatly reduce the need to cool a home. - Use rechargeable batteries.
Instead of throwing your batteries away all the time, reuse rechargeable batteries. Costs a little more, but cheaper in the long run. - Buy used.
Instead of buying new clothing, furniture, cars, whatever, look to buy used instead. You can get them for cheaper, and still get quality — all the while reducing the need to produce more stuff. - Walk instead of drive.
You don’t have to do this all the time, but walking the short trip to a store, or to lunch from work, or some other short trip like that, can reduce the amount of fuel you use over the long term, and you shed some fat at the same time. Or at least burn off that morning donut. - Unplug appliances.
If you don’t use an appliance several times a day, it’s better to unplug it, as they often use energy even when turned off - Unload your car.
Remove excess weight from your car (such as stuff that might be in the trunk) to reduce the amount of fuel you use. - Try cycling.
Biking to work or around town can be a great way to get in some exercise and save fuel. - Install a water filter.
If you buy a lot of bottled water, use your tap instead. Some places need a filter to make tap water taste drinkable, but they don’t cost much and they can save money, water, and plastic bottles over time. - Use cloth shopping bags.
Don’t cost much, and can save a lot of paper or plastic. - Mend your stuff.
Try not to throw stuff away and buy new stuff if the old stuff can be fixed. Torn clothing? Takes a few minutes to sew up. - Compost.
It’s not hard to set one up (look it up online), and you can save a lot of waste from the landfill and help your garden at the same time. - Try mass transit.
Millions of people use it, and it saves tons of fuel. If you don’t already, give it a try. - Buy in bulk.
Reduces the need for packaging, and costs less. - Buy durable.
Look for long-lasting, well-made products instead of cheap, disposable ones. Use less disposable plates, cups, utensils. Use cloth diapers instead of disposable. - Use your oven less.
The oven not only uses a lot of energy, it heats up your kitchen, requiring more cooling. Instead, use toaster ovens, crockpots, microwaves, and electric grills when you can. And when you do use your oven, open it less — you lose 25% of the heat every time you open the oven door. - Join a local organization.
Just about every community has one or more environmental organizations. It’s not hard to sign up, and when you have the time, you can volunteer for things that will clean up your community and make it a nicer place to live. - Join Blog Action Day.
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Hi, this is a fantastic initiative and I think it would be lovely -and useful- to have this information translated into several languages. It might be and I just don’t know about it. Kind regards.
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50 Fantastic Tips. I will definitely join up to the blog action event. Articles like these are important because it keeps the message current and gives people small actionable tasks that make a big difference
don’t use toilet paper? us a bidet instead and you save tons of trees
If you are a student, buy a Tablet PC and e-books!
I am currently running a month-long blogging campaign on environment-related matters at The Giving Hands (http://thegivinghands.org), which had begun on Sept 15th, and will conclude on Oct 15th in conjunction with Blog Action Day.
And I’d like to invite you all participants to my blog to participate in the campaign. Perhaps you have some tips or experience you’d like to share?
The best thing about most of these is that you can put them into your routine with little effort. The hardest part is breaking the old habits…
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Great article, great suggestions! I would like to comment on #8 the use of CFC light bulbs. CFC light bulbs have a common misconception about them, they are not energy efficient for everyone. Sure, as far as just looking at the light bulb they are energy efficient and cost effective to use. Unfortunately, people leave out a side benefit of incandescent light bulbs, the heat they produce. If you live in a northern climate, say an area where your furnace runs regularly for 8 months a year, using incandescent light bulbs actually causes a reduction in total energy use by the house, as they help to provide heat. On the opposite hand, if you live in an area where air conditioning is running 8 months a year, incandescent light bulbs are hurting energy consumption, because they are partly responsible for the heat which the air conditioning is working so hard to remove. You can poke around on The University of Toronto, The University of Texas-Austin, and The University of Michigan websites for additional information about when it is actually beneficial to use CFC light bulbs. The University of Toronto has particularly interesting information about a case study they performed on the subject.
You should also find out more about your impact on the environment and our climate. The Nature Conservancy’s carbon footprint calculator @ http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/ helps you estimate how many tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases your personal lifestyle choices create each year.
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“Turn it down to 130 degrees, saving energy but still hot enough to kill bacteria.”
You probably mean “turn it UP to 130″? But that ain’t saving energy. ..
Most heaters are set on 80C, the ones that are using rain water need to go up to 100C once a week for 1/2hours, in order to kill bacterias.
You know that’s what I am scared of about pseudo-ecolo…sometimes you want to spread a nice message and you just act worst.. We really have to react against global warming but we must avoid mail-chains with “apprenti-sorcier” tricks…we need scientific low-level information and we need it now.
And we can stop also over-production…
As my blog is about home exchange, I will be blogging about choosing to swap homes for vacations (using buildings that would otherwise be empty while the owners are away) in preference to contributing to the growth of wasteful hotels.
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Great list! RE: the low-flow showerheads - Please don’t think that installing one will reduce your water pressure; actually it makes your shower much more powerful. It’s much like when you put your thumb at the end of a garden hose - you reduce the amount coming out, which builds up force behind it. The one I recommend to friends with low water pressure is just a little nozzle you put on the pipe and costs less than $10. Better water pressure can also mean shorter showers, so you end up saving water 2 ways!
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telecommuting is really great because not only are you not driving to work but you also are at home so you spend less money on food. you can also have the prep time to eat more local food and reduce your food miles but you will probably eat healtheir too.
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A word of caution about filling the toilet tank. If you put too much, it’s possible that you reduce pressure and flow enough that one flush will no longer do the job. Keep an eye on it, and make sure it doesn’t consistently call for two flushes.
Also, if you don’t have any cloth shopping bags, many grocery stores are beginning to offer discounts for reusing paper ones. Two near me (Hy Vee and Price Chopper) both offer $.05 per bag off your total purchase.
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Some of these seem like good ideas, but upon further inspection probably aren’t. For example, I tried a low-flow showerhead once. They way it lowers the amount of water used is by aerating the water, which also happens to greatly lower the temperature. So I tended to crank up the hot water to compensate for the loss of temp. So, yeah you’re using less water but more electricity. Rechargable batteries are way overpriced; alkaline battery rechargers are a much better idea. Buying a smaller car is a nice thought, but creating a new smaller car is much more environmentally unfriendly than keeping your current car in good shape and driving it until it dies. You also suggest turning off the tv and getting out and getting exercise. I live in Florida, so most of the year being outside means sweating, which means yet another shower…. Other than these few things I think it’s a good list that most people could implement without too much trouble.
just a heads up (CFCs) = chlorofluorocarbons the type of bulb is CFL.
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It is a great article with a lot of suggestions. But, how about the politicians?, what is the role of the media?.
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This is a wonderful cause!!!
I just joined in, and im going to write something on this eventually!
Or blow up a power plant. You can always do that!
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I have been writing a blog for my students for a while now about these issues. With your blog it appears that the time has come for the idea of working towards a renewable sustainable future to take off. Thank you for pulling it all together.
Messed up the web link sorry
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Thank you for these many ideas. I think also that they should be translated in as many languages as possible, also in Finnish. I’m participating in this bloc-action day on my bloc. My bloc is written in Finnish and I haven’t got yet many readers, but I think it is better to do something instead of just waiting. I heard about this possibility from my son who is very eager in these things.
Thank you again.
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tres formas concretas en que puedes ayudar al medio ambiente:
1)no sentirte culpable ni indiferente con lo que está pasando, sino responsable, dentro de tu esfera de acciòn.
2)tomar conciencia de que no defendemos a “nuestro planeta”, como si fuera nuestra propiedad privada.Los pueblos originarios -justo los que no hacen daño al medio ambiente- saben que sólo administramos lo que no es nuestro, pertenece a alguien Superior a nosotros, quien creó, sustenta y enlaza todo. Respira hondo y mírate como parte de esa bella creación.
3)ayuda a los demás a amigarse con su entorno aún ante las catástrofes naturales: la naturaleza está sufriendo hoy día. su estado actual es anormal, no siempre fué así ni será así (búscalo en la biblia). No es que la naturaleza esté agresiva; nosotros fuimos agresivos con ella.
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This is such a great idea! I am looking forward to posting my little blurb about how I think the world can be saved, but more excited to hear what everyone else has to say.
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En mi blog he incluído numerosos artículos sobre idioma gallego y medio ambiente.
El de esta fecha, 15.10, publicado en diversos medios, se titula “Na defensa da Terra” y está dedicado a Al Gore y al Grupo Intergubernamental de la ONU.
Creo que tenemos que desarrollar una campaña global para la recuperación del capital natural y también del capital social, al que tanto alude Francis Fukuyama en su libro “La Gran Ruptura”.
Es necesario cambiar hábitos de consumo y no generar otros residuos que los que sean verdaderamente reciclables.
Las depuradoras de las ciudadanes son muchas veces un verdadero fraude.
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I do about 32 of those 50 things on a day to day basis. In fact, my whole family does. My mom just walked to the grocery store to get our month’s supply of things, which she brings home, by walk, in cloth bags!
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Fantastic post - all 50 tips are great. Consciously I do about half of the top 25 listed … but guess I can do more : ) thx again for a great post.
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I´ve subscribed this event.
It´s a great cause and a good initiative.
Thanks to all of you.
Saudações alentejanas.
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Lobby local governments to put pressure on electric companies to switch to ‘Automatice Meter Reading’ devices, like what Conectisys, Inc in Valencia, CA produces. These devices will cut energy consumption dramatically!
Not many people know about the technology, but Warren Buffet does. He responded to my letter a couple of years ago regarding the invention of them.
ConectiSys Corporation (OCTBB: CNES), a developer of automatic meter reading technologies, announced today the completion of a significant renovation and update of both its HNET™ hardware and software technologies. These milestones have been reached as a result of a collaboration that began in April of this year with a well known wireless technology developer who has a long history of successful product deployments in the retail and U.S. Government markets.
As a result of this strategic alliance, the Company has enhanced its core product and now has access to an array of advanced wireless technologies for immediate HNET™ systems integration. Specifically, this relationship has enabled the Company to launch the low cost development of a Local Area Network (LAN) for both the residential and commercial environments. This LAN will communicate with the ConectiSys existing Wide Area Network (WAN). The LAN will allow the customer to view energy usage on a digital display mounted conveniently within a home or business. The emphasis will be individual appliances such as air conditioners and refrigerators in the home and high electric energy usage equipment in the commercial workplace. All data displays will be in real time.
In addition, the HNET™ bi-directional Networks will enable utility remote load shedding at peak consumption periods; resulting in greater distribution efficiency, energy conservation and consumer awareness.
Rod Lighthipe, ConectiSys Director of Business Development, commented that “This combination of the Local and Wide Area Networks together with the existing HNET™ technology will provide the Company with a unique product in the AMR marketplace.” Mr. Lighthipe further stated, “The Company’s updated HNET™ hardware and software is ready for immediate deployment. The development of the Local Area Network should be completed and fully integrated by early 2008.
Robert Spigno, the Company’s President and CEO, remarked that, “The Company’s plug and play low cost deployment strategy will pay large dividends in the future and our wireless products will be known as among the most competitive in the industry.” CEO Spigno went on to say, “We will be implementing our full marketing strategy now and continue through the next several years. Our 2008 marketing budget will significantly exceed our development budget for the first time in the Company’s history. We will seek high level exposure opportunities with utility industry leaders, attend numerous trade shows and demonstrate our products for sales across the country. As the AMR market continues to mature vertically I anticipate that CNES will reflect a similar growth.”
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Be a Vegetarian, at least today! You will save 10 times the energy, research showed that meat based diets consume 10x the energy. I heard this from a friend of mine years ago, and it makes sense to me. So I did not do my research on it. I am e.Indian but traditionally not been a vegetarian, I started about 3 years ago. Do eat dairy, eggs, if you think you need more protein and maybe fish too.
Since I started, I lost 50 lbs, my skin shines, I feel vibrant. The energy I feel is better. I believe in moderation so I do recommend for people to eat light meat as I some times do. Overall, even when I do, I enjoy my meat too. So live lighter, be greener, be healthier, save the environment, EAT VEGETARIAN TODAY!
this is really cool, i’m going to do some and pass some along.
good idea to save the world……
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