Tip #4: Set your thermostat a few degrees lower in the winter and a few degrees higher in the summer to save on heating and cooling costs.

Tip #5: If you eat meat, add one meatless meal a week. Meat costs a lot at the store-and it's even more expensive when you consider the related environmental and health costs. Now, I am not telling you to change your whole diet, though eating less pork and beef would help you loose weight, but at least one meatless meal a week would be something new from the same-old lame-old, right?

Tip #6: Donate or recycle your cell phones, computers, and other electronic appliances responsibly when the time comes. E-waste contains mercury and other toxics and is a growing environmental problem. If the electronics end up in land fill, the appliance will release the mercury causing the soil to become contaminated. Now, is that really what we want?

Follow up next Monday for more "how to green your life" tips!

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