HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! And congratulations to you all, we’ve made it to 2010! Happy decade! 
Now here’s a list of 2010 things you can do to kick off the new year and be green! Okay, just kidding, not THAT many tips! Only 50 tips today, because Jduck and I are too lazy to write 2010 green tips. 
- Start a recycling bucket in your garage/kitchen
- Do a monthly neighborhood trash pickup walk with friends
- Tell your friends about this website!
- Join our Forums!
- Switch lightbulbs to fluorescents
- Start putting your computer on ‘sleep’ when not in use
- Begin using organic products
- Start your own Go Green Blog!
- Email us some green suggestions
- Start a garden
- Put bird feeders around the exterior of your home
- Follow us on twitter for green tips
- Watch our green videos on youtube
- Recycle your junk mail
- unplug chargers in the wall outlets when not in use
- Use lunch bags/boxes not brown bags
- Paper or plastic? Neither get a re-useable bag!
- Make a Green Chores list for yourself and family each week
- Don’t leave the refrigerator door open so long
- Turn lights off as you leave a room
- Leave your iPod on ‘hold’ or turn it off, to save batteries
- Take shorter showers (try and cut back each one by 2 minutes)
- Don’t leave the water running when you brush your teeth
- Turn off any stereo’s when you leave a room
- Try and cut back on using hair driers, they suck a lot of energy
- Don’t talk on your home or cell phone so much.
- Don’t text all the time either.
- Put your cellphone on ‘lock’ when not in use, but when you need it on
- Put a reminder on your phone to unplug the charger from the wall when your phone is done charging
- Use a dish washer rather than hand washing your dishes. You’ll save more water
- Are you old fashioned? Like Sending snail mail? Well switch over to email! Faster, better and more effecicant!
- Suggest to your company/school about recycling paper
- Cut down on your text time to save batteries
- You know those little tabs you use to open soda cans? Well those can be recycled too!
- Got some new clothes for Christmas? Well don’t throw out the old ones! Give them to goodwill or use them as craft material
- Finish that Sudoku/word search? Well be sure to recycle it!
- Done with the Sunday paper? RECYCLE IT!
- Plan on buying someone a CD as a late Christmas Present? Well save some plastic and get em an iTunes card
- Have a cat? Maybe start a catnip patch in your garden!
- Hear about those new digitalized books? That little piece of plastic you can carry 100 books in? Buy one to save some paper and space!
- Start saving up to buy some solar pannles
- Whenever you have a class project due, put it on disc rather than paper
- Don’t us “Air Freshener’s” they only fill your home with chemicals! Open some windows
- Don’t buy mechanical pencils, alot of plastic goes into those pencils and lead cases
- No one watching TV or listening to that music? Well shut it off!
- Try not to use disposable dinner wear at parties
- Why pay for a gym membership when you can exsercise AND get your shopping done?!
- Participate in this years Earth Hour
- Time to update the art supplies? But crayons made from soy, not petroleum and wax
- Knot together the ends of a dish towel or rag and you have an elegant gift wrapping!
- Extra plastic bags lying around? Turn them into trash bags!
(By the way. Each underlined tip/resolution is for every 10 things… just helped us make sure we had exactly 50!)
Thanks for your continuous support! You know that it is MORE than greatly appreciated!
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