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- Plant a tree that will shade your house as well as reduce the need for air conditioning.
- Participate in your community's recycling program and recycle all you can.
- Combine short car trips, or use a bicycle or walk instead.
- Improve your home's energy efficiency by adding insulation and caulking, and regularly cleaning heating and air conditioning filters.
- Compost yard trimmings and food waste in a backyard compost bin. Don't bag grass clippings - either leave them on the lawn or compost them.
- When buying paint, cleaners or other chemicals, buy only what you need and use what you buy.
- Practice water conservation - install a low flow shower head or make an Earth Day pledge to take shorter showers.
- Use compact fluorescent lights to conserve up to 75 percent of the energy consumed by incandescent bulbs.
- Purchase durable goods and choose products made with recycled materials and with minimal or recyclable packaging.
- Reduce the amount of unwanted junk mail - have your name removed from mailing lists.
Everyday Earth Saving Tips from EarthShare
Tips for Reducing Waste/Junk Mail
Assists you in reducing your
junk mail by as much as 65 percent within three months.
Use Less Stuff
Tips for how to reduce resource conservation during the winter holiday
season.
Steps to Conserve Energy on North Carolina's Highways
Describes how you can save money and help the environment, including details on
gas mileage savings and vehicle wear.
Make Your Home Energy Efficient
Based on your zip code, compares the energy costs of an average home with an
energy efficient home in your locality.
Home Improvement Tools
Get energy saving prescriptions for common house symptoms. Provides the
top five energy improvements for your home, as well as information on how Energy
Star saves your home improvement dollars.
Recycle Guys
Find information on recycling in North Carolina, including local program
contacts, fun stuff for kids, and how you can close the recycling loop.
Airhead
Discover many simple ways you can reduce the impact of your everyday life on the
environment. See how everyday activities can become easy opportunities to
lessen pollution.
Swat-A-Litterbug
Program
Here's a way that motorists and pedestrians can report incidents of litter
law violations to the N.C. Department of Transportation's Office of
Beautification Programs.
Greeting Card Recycling
Find where you can get rid of and recycle your old all occasion cards
Volunteer Opportunities
Find out how you can become involved in local environmental activities
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