This is what my husband, son and I do regularly....
- recycle by using the bins provided by our city for paper, plastic and glass
- don't buy bottled water because each of us (the little guy included) has our own Naglene bottle (BPA Free) that we take with us wherever we're going
- mulch our lawn instead of bagging it and we sweep our clippings off of the pavement instead of using one of those obnoxious blowers
- we don't over-water our lawn or water during inefficient times of the day
- we put solar screens on the windows at home to reduce our energy consumption
- I drive a Camry Hybrid
- we wash large loads of laundry instead of small ones and wash using cold water (ok, sometimes I just have to use hot)
- wrapped our hot water heater with a blanket
- have a programmable thermostat for our a/c and heating unit
- use ceiling fans to help circulate air
- my husband turns off the ignition when idling in his vehicle (my car switches to the hybrid battery in those situations)
- turn off the faucet while brushing
- don't use plastic bags... we bring our own canvas bags when we shop
- recently changed from liquid laundry detergent and fabric softner to powder detergent and dryer sheets so that we use less plastic...the paper products seem easier to recycle...we could be wrong on this
- I stockpile my MAC make-up containers so I can recycle them at the MAC counter and get a free lipstick! (If you use MAC products then you know they last for-ev-er, so I have to hold on to these for awhile to get the required number of six to trade in.)
- utilize a composter for our food scraps (can you add dog poo to those???)
- keep a vegetable garden
- use a push mower & edger (yeah, I don't think Hubby would dig that...)