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<\/p>\nGreen goals are excellent, but there’s no need to go overboard. Starting slow means you can concentrate on making sure you follow through on the little green tasks you choose before you try to build up to bigger goals naturally. Following are four totally easy green goals you can take on for 2010 – they won’t take much time, won’t cost much (if anything), and are a great start if you’re new to green living.<\/p>\n
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Ditch common paper trails<\/strong> – two common paper trails include bills and notes. You can easily leave these trails behind in 2009. Get some whiteboards<\/a>, leave them by phones, hang one on the fridge, and place little ones out where you normally take and leave notes for people. You can thus skip pads of paper and memos. As for bills, sign up for paperless billing whenever possible. There’s no point to paper bills nowadays and paying bills online saves you a check as well.<\/p>\n Green your take out<\/strong> – the best way to green take out meals<\/a> is to eat less of them. However, if you still grab food on the go once in a while make sure you skip the extra napkins, silverware, and other extras you already have at home. This is a simple step to remember for the year.<\/p>\n Hang a water saving note <\/strong>– if you haven’t been shutting off the tap while you brush or shave you’re wasting a ton of water; up to 3 gallons a minute. Hang a simple note in the bathroom reminding people to simply turn the tap off while not actually using the water. Think about it, if you brush your teeth for two minutes, three times a day, you’re saving almost 18 gallons of water per day while brushing your teeth alone.<\/p>\n Donate a cell phone or two<\/strong> – each year about 65,000 tons of waste are created when people toss their cell phones away. Cell phones can contain icky stuff like lead and mercury and although small add up to a lot of toxic trash in our landfills. It’s also totally unnecessary to toss a cell phone. There are plenty of cell phone donation sites<\/a> and recycling centers all over and even available via mail.<\/p>\n [image via stock.xchng]<\/p>\n Post from: Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n