rebates on water-saving purchases

Many Water districts offer rebates on washers and toilets Like these from Santa Clara Valley in California

on washers:
http://www.valleywater.org/Water/Water_conservation/In_the_home/Washer_rebates.shtm

on toilets (dual flush):
http://www.valleywater.org/Water/Water_conservation/In_the_home/High_efficiency_toilet_rebates.shtm

water saving plants:
http://www.valleywater.org/Water/Water_conservation/In_the_home/_Water-wise_plant_list.shtm

Cut back emmisions from cars at your next event

To help people find a ride share their car to your event, use this service...
http://www.spaceshare.com/

Awesome Companies...

Terracycle really goes the extra step to make sure they create products that are completely made of waste. You can even go to heir site and send in items to be recycled like drink packets (Capri Sun style), and cookie and chip wrappers...

Here's just one product of many where they have found ways of using non-recyclable items like wax paper (milk cartons, etc..)

http://www.terracycle.net/

Hiking Vacation

Ever thought about a hiking vacation?

This fabulous site helps you plan a hike along the Pacific Coast Trail, which goes from Mexico to canada along the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

http://www.pctplanner.com

Recycling plastic bags - small things

I watched a friend of mine's dogs for a few days, and she provided their food rationed out in plastic ziplock bags. When It was her turn to watch my dog, I reused those baggies to provide my dog's food.

Use the heat from your dryer to heat your house

Why waste all that energy you're using to dry your clothes? Divert the hot air from your dryer into your house with an inexpensive and simple to install diverter.




http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004YWK2?tag=tidbandstuf-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B00004YWK2&adid=02NKFDYR76ERR0BAQ4CE&

Plant a Row for the hungry

http://www.gardenwriters.org/Par/

Shade-grown coffee

keeps rainforests from being torn down to grow coffee unsustainably.
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more info here: http://www.shadecoffee.org/shadecoffee/

Mercury thermometers and medicine disopsal

if you're in the SF Bay area, go to this site to find out what to do with your old medicines and mercury thermometers... http://baywise.org/

Hydroponic Garden Pots

These great pots use a soil-less potting medium and feed the plants hydroponically, allowing the roots to gather nutrients without using a lot of soil to do so, and allowing the gardener to grown a large amount of plants and veggies in a small space.

http://www.cleanairgardening.com/hydroponic.html