1. Become a zealot about turning things off: the water, the lights, and the electronics.

2. Carpool as often as you can or ask your boss if you can telecommute.

3. Reserve one day for your shopping and errands instead of making multiple trips all the time.

4. Keep your car longer. Instead of a 2-year lease, finance a car with a 5-year loan and keep it for 10.

5. Look for ways to go digital to reduce waste: books, magazines, music, and movies.

6. Order online or direct from companies rather than driving to a store.

7. Force yourself to always wait one day on non-essential purchases in order to avoid impulse buys.

8. Save money and prevent food waste by splitting meals and Brown bag your lunches, too.

9. Consider large or economy-sized items for household products that are used frequently, such as laundry soap, shampoo, baking soda, pet foods, and cat litter.

1. Use rechargeable batteries to help reduce garbage and keep toxic metals found in some batteries out of the waste stream.

2. Try to use both sides of a sheet of paper for printing, copying, writing and drawing. Once-used paper can also be reused in plain paper fax machines — they only need one clean side.

3. E-mail can be used to share documents and ideas. Be sure to only print the e-mails you need to have a hard copy of. This advice goes for Internet documents as well.

4. Desktop fax, electronic references (CD-ROM databases), electronic data storage, electronic purchasing and direct deposit are all ways to use electronic media that reduce office paper waste.

5. Practice efficient copying — use the size reduction feature offered on many copiers.

6. Buy vintage everything. From electronics to furniture to fashion, vintage is the most eco-friendly choice you can make.

7. Reuse newspaper, boxes, packaging "peanuts," and "bubble wrap" to ship packages. Reuse paper and plastic bags and twist ties.

8. Wash and save glass jars for handy use as storage, vases, and food leftover containers.

9. Use cloth napkins and towels instead of disposable ones.

10. Consider using low-energy fluorescent light bulbs rather than incandescent ones. They'll last longer, which means fewer bulbs are thrown out, and cost less to replace over time.

1. Recycle your electronics for free at the Dallas Mavericks E-Cycling Drive on April 9, 2010 at American Airlines Center

2. Participate in community recycling drives, curbside programs, and drop-off collections.

3. Consider products made of materials that are collected for recycling locally.

4. Look for items in packages and containers made of recycled materials. Many bottles, cans, paper wrappings, bags, cereal boxes, and other cartons and packages are made from recycled materials.

5. Use products with recycled content whenever you can.

6. Recycle paint, motor oil and other toxic household cleaning supplies

7. “Recycle” things you don’t want anymore by donating them – old toys, clothes, furniture, decor, games, movies, books, and tools

8. Allow mown grass clippings to remain on the lawn to decompose and return nutrients back to the soil, rather than bagging and disposing of them

9. Recycle your empty ink and toner cartridges.

10. Make recycling bins readily available.