Surf on into the World Wide Web and visit Greendimes.com. Water is being saved as you read. Also, trees are being planted, wasteful junk mail is being stopped, and kids’ ID kits are being created. Basically, it’s an all around cool site. Greendimes.com has been featured in Business Week, Ok! Magazine and the Oakland Tribune. It has also been mentioned on The Ellen Show and is even endorsed by cutie celebrity Matt Damon which you can check out on. Perhaps it’s worth a few minutes of your time to check it out for yourself.

The first perk is you can stop all that annoying junk mail you receive by the pound each day in your mailbox. Your mail person will thank you as will all the trees! For thirty-six dollars a year, or a dime a day, you can do as Greendimes.com suggests and “restore you sanity while saving the planet”. Another perk of joining Greendimes is that they will plant a tree for you each and every month. Greendimes.com would be a great gift for that boss or in-law who has everything. Gift certificates are also available online. All you need is an email address and the gift will be emailed to the recepitiant, so you will save a tree. You can give a thoughtful creative gift without leaving your home or changing out of your favorite comfortable pajamas. What a bargain since you will also being saving the planet at the same time! Signing up on Greendimes.com is literally as easy as 1, 2, 3. The simple three-step process will help preserve the planet for our children and their children. Plus, you can reduce your postal junk mail by seventy-five to ninety percent and only receive the catalogues that you actually want to get. The less junk mail you receive, the less likely you are to have your identity stolen.

Help Greendimes.com and the numerous other companies out there, such as 41 Pounds.org and Catalog Choice.org, spread the word about how to make our world a greener place! You can help by printing a flyer and posting it for others to see. You can also click on a link and email your friends about this cool site. Helping to save the environment is only a click away.

Although Greendimes.com isn’t tax deductible, it is still a worthy investment which is available to anyone who is a resident of the United States or Canada. Hopefully, the British branch of Greendimes will be up and running soon. As Greendimes.com so ironically asks on their site, “It’s our planet, do you give a dime” about it? Show you care and sign-up today!

As most people know, planting trees is a wonderful way to help the environment since trees produce oxygen which everyone on earth breathes to stay alive. Planting trees also help stop the effects of global warming. There are also plenty of other more exciting reasons to plant trees.

Planting a tree is a great way to commerate the birth of your new son or daughter. If you have older children, don’t leave them out. Plant a tree in honor of their kindergarten graduation and later perhaps even their wedding. Make it a family tradition of planting a tree for all the memorable family occasions.

You might also consider planting a tree in memory of the death of a loved one or a child’s favorite pet. This will something live in memory of what you wish was still living while helping everyone around to breathe a little better. You might even consider having a summer block party beautification celebration and get the whole neighborhood involved in planting trees!

The Arbor Foundation is a huge help when it comes to the tree planting cause! Arbor Day has been around since 1872 and is celebrated on the last Friday in April just when the weather is warming up and kids get spring fever. It is a great time to get the family involved. Let your children plant a tree in your yard. If your yard is already full of trees, offer to plant trees in an elderly neighbor’s yard or at the local nursing home. Most nursing homes love for families, especially those with children, to come by and visit for special projects. Help the environment while watching the faces on all the older people around light up with joy all because of a single visit from you or your child. Suggest to the school your child attends or to your child’s teacher that each student or class grow and plant a tree or start an environmentally friendly beautification project. From kindergarten to high school, this idea works and helps the environment! Perhaps you are thinking of starting back to college yourself now that your little one has arrived. Why not suggest planting trees to your favorite professor and make some brownie points for yourself?

Even if a cactus is not safe with you and your black thumbs, the National Arbor Foundation will help you out by telling you which trees survive best in what types of environments. You can also join the Arbor Day Foundation and get ten free trees. Why not buy a tree for that boss or in-law that is so hard to shop for during holidays or birthdays? Trees make a great gift for anyone regardless of their age. Children like playing in the dirt while planting them and most adults can appreciate a thoughtful yet environmentally friendly present that won’t get added to the pile of unwanted gifts in their overcrowded closet.

Many local high schools raise plants and trees to sell for Future Farmers of America Clubs or agriculture classes. They would certainly appreciate your patronage and support. You can also find trees or tree seeds to plant at local nurseries and super stores. Go grab a tree and help your family grow a bit greener!

Just as your fixed up the nursery and baby-proofed your house recently, you probably wish you could do the same thing for the whole earth and make it a utopia for your perfect baby. Pre-cycling is a way to help the planet and ensure that your infant and later perhaps grandchildren have a wonderful place to live for years to come.

Pre-cycling is preventing waste before it ever even happens. Why should you care about pre-cycling? There are two main reasons. It’s simpler and cheaper than other forms of recycling. How exactly does pre-cycling work and where can you start? You’d be surprised how much waste can be saved if we all do our parts. There are many areas such as the kitchen, bathroom, laundry, and garden where you can begin pre-cycling. You can also pre-cycle while shopping. If you work outside of the home even part-time to stay sane, you can aide the planet by pre-cycling at the office too.

In your home you can pre-cycle by using cloth instead of paper towels for cleaning. Use old clothes and bedding for rags. Also help pre-cycle by using cloth napkins instead of paper ones. Use washable plates and utensils. You can also use class jars for storage instead of plastic. Instead of buying new items, repair broken items. Donate usable unwanted items such as clothes and toys to a local abused women’s shelter, orphanage, or other charity. Many places will even pick up large items such as furniture for free since you are donating them. Give away books and magazines to a nursing home, doctor or dentist office, or the local library for their book sale.

You can pre-cycle in your garden by loaning or borrowing tools that are rarely used. You might even consider renting tools for projects that are not going to be ongoing. When you must purchase tools, buy ones that use rechargeable batteries. Use a mulching mower to cut your grass. Most of all, compost all organic lawn and kitchen waste.

When you must paint, estimate and buy only the amount you need. You can even use plastic containers instead of buying paint trays. Reuse wood when possible and use scraps to build birdhouses, or small toys such as a little pull car for your child.

And when buying anything new, you should decide if there are better options first. Look at the packaging. Is it recyclable? Is there an excess of it? How many miles did it travel to get to you? If there are two identical products, one wrapped in paper, and the other in non-recyclable plastic, stuffed with styrofoam and shipped from China, which do you think I’m going to buy?

Remember that you can help with pre-cycling by reusing items as much as you can to help save production and gas costs. By pre-cycling you can do your part to keep the planet a happy place for you family to inhabit.

Along with the precious new baby in your life come lots of love, darling little giggles, sweet smiles, and loads upon loads of dirty laundry. Think of all the energy and resources you waste daily by simply keeping the laundry for your family clean and fresh. There are some earth-friendly ways to keep your laundry caught up and avoid wasting precious resources.

While washing your clothes, there are several ways to stay earth-friendly besides reverting to the washer board. Wash in cold water and help prevent global warming. Also wash full loads instead of you’re your child’s uniform or your favorite fat pants. Always check labels and use non-chlorinated bleach and phosphate-free detergents. You can also purchase an Energy Star washing machine which will save you a little over $100 per year. This washer also conserves water by using between 18-25 gallons of water rather than the typical whopping 40 gallons that most washers use for one load. There are Energy Star models available in top-loading or front-loading. Both model also spin the clothes extra dry and will help your clothes stay better looking for even longer. Plus, if you use a clothes dryer, less drying time is needed.

One of the easiest ways to save energy while laundering your loads is to let them air dry because next to the refrigerator, no other appliance uses so much unnecessary energy. With a bit of wire and a few clothes pins, you can make yourself a good old fashioned clothes line and hang up your clothes after washing them. There are several different models of clothes lines available, such as the umbrella-style, pulleys and hooks, poles, wooden racks, and wall-mounted dryers. The bottom line is to let your laundry air dry inside during foggy, rainy, damp, or freezing weather. However, on sunny days, let your clothes air dry outside and pick up wonderful natural scents that all the abrasive laundry detergents keep trying and failing to duplicate. By air drying your clothes, they will last longer and smell better. Plus, clothes dryer are a leading cause of house fires which result in injuries and even deaths. There’s a simple solution; air dry your clothes. The earth will thank you, as will your husband when he gets the lower energy bill!

As you can see, doing your laundry the earth-friendly way has many benefits. Your family will have great-smelling clothes, you will save money on your energy bill, and you will feel great knowing you’ve done your part to help preserve the earth.