| 1. When you wash dishes, don't leave the water running the entire time. Wash your dishes in the soapy water, set them in the other half of your sink, then rinse them all at the same time. The average family will save over 2,000 gallons of water per year just by doing this! 2. Use your toaster over for small meals. It takes less energy to heat a toaster over than a conventional oven, so place food in a smaller dish and bake in the toaster. It may not seem like it, but an entrée for a family of four will fit in a 9×9 square pan. 3.Don't pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. Most of the newer models have been designed to do the pre-rinsing for you – so not only does it mean you're using more water, you're doing more work than you need to do. 4.Unplug unnecessary appliances. Even when your coffeemaker and cell phone charger aren't in service, they're still sucking up electricity. According to experts on carbon dioxide emissions, these gadgets are still drawing energy, which then goes to waste – in fact, if you use your microwave less than seven minutes each day, the oven's digital clock is using more energy than the oven! So plug everything into power strips with on/off switches, then turn 'em off when not in use, just like you turn off the lights when you leave the room. 5. Wrap your water heater. Every winter, the energy company tells you to do this, but have you actually done it? For the price of a $20 insulation blanket, you can save as much as 10 percent on your water-heating costs. It only take about a half hour to do, and it's well worth the investment of time and money. 6. Wash your hands with cold water. Since you're not handling meat, there's nothing that's getting on your hands in the kitchen that can't be cleaned with soap and cool water. Use an antibacterial soap, turn on the cold tap, and save up to 5 percent on your water-heating costs. 7. Get rid of those dryer bunnies. Removing lint from the dryer trap will improve your dryer's efficiency up to 30 percent. When the filter's clean, the airflow's easier, and the dryer doesn't have to work as hard. | 
Have you ever heard an employer say that if everyone took off work a minute early how many man hours would be lost. Or a parent that said if everyone threw their candy wrapper in the bushes how much litter would pile up. Okay, not the best examples but I am sure you know what I mean.
But how about if everyone did one thing that was positive to the environment what an impact that would on our future.
Below is a list of seven simple actions you can take that makes a difference. True that if only one person does them the impact is probably not negligible. But if you do them, then pass it on to your friends, and 5 of them do them, and then they pass it on we are now seeing huge results for the world's environment.
The list of seven positive action below are from a post by Rudy Hadisentosa at Veggie123.
They are all quite simple and you may be doing some of them already.
1. When you wash dishes, don't leave the water running the entire time. Wash your dishes in the soapy water, set them in the other half of your sink, then rinse them all at the same time. The average family will save over 2,000 gallons of water per year just by doing this!
2. Use your toaster over for small meals. It takes less energy to heat a toaster over than a conventional oven, so place food in a smaller dish and bake in the toaster. It may not seem like it, but an entrée for a family of four will fit in a 9×9 square pan.
3.Don't pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. Most of the newer models have been designed to do the pre-rinsing for you – so not only does it mean you're using more water, you're doing more work than you need to do.
4.Unplug unnecessary appliances. Even when your coffeemaker and cell phone charger aren't in service, they're still sucking up electricity. According to experts on carbon dioxide emissions, these gadgets are still drawing energy, which then goes to waste – in fact, if you use your microwave less than seven minutes each day, the oven's digital clock is using more energy than the oven! So plug everything into power strips with on/off switches, then turn 'em off when not in use, just like you turn off the lights when you leave the room.
5. Wrap your water heater. Every winter, the energy company tells you to do this, but have you actually done it? For the price of a $20 insulation blanket, you can save as much as 10 percent on your water-heating costs. It only take about a half hour to do, and it's well worth the investment of time and money.
6. Wash your hands with cold water. Since you're not handling meat, there's nothing that's getting on your hands in the kitchen that can't be cleaned with soap and cool water. Use an antibacterial soap, turn on the cold tap, and save up to 5 percent on your water-heating costs.
7. Get rid of those dryer bunnies. Removing lint from the dryer trap will improve your dryer's efficiency up to 30 percent. When the filter's clean, the airflow's easier, and the dryer doesn't have to work as hard.
Print up this list of seven for your family to see and as a reminder of what you can do for the environment.
Forward or copy the list and send it to as many people as you can.
It will make a difference.
Always look forward,
Jerry