Hug a tree, or something!

I nearly forgot that today is BLOG ACTION DAY. My genius ideas for green living are below. But first, a quick overview.

In recent months, some smart bloggers gave thousands of fellow bloggers marching orders to organize around a fun experiment: get everyone to blog about the environment on the same day (today, October 15th).

So this is terrific, obviously, because over 15,000 blogs (including yours truly) pledged to cover environmental issues today, and according to everyone's self-reported reader stats, that's about 12 million blog readers that will hear an environmental message today. I look forward to hearing the long-term impact of this effort - likely the most successful of it's kind.

Some bloggers have tied the subject in nicely on their otherwise non-environmental focused blogs.

• I love Rohit's (colleague at Ogilvy) post via his Influential Marketing blog about 7 ways you can eat differently to impact climate change. (I learned about Blog Action Day through Rohit).
  
• Ryan at CyberNet talks about his 5 most energy-efficient gadgets.
• J.D at Get Rich Slowly (a personal finance blog) tells us to cut back on consumption, but if we must consume as consumers do, to "embrace imperfections" by buying organic food and hand-crafted goods
• Hypebot summarizes posts about green resources for the music industry

So what are my tips/resources for green living? I'm working on a small scale, but I humbly suggest making these changes too, if you aren't already:

• Walking to and from work every day, rain, shine, hail, or hangover (I'm lucky that home and work are within 1.5 miles of each other. And I'm just joking about that drinking on work nights thing)
  
• Carpooling - if you make your boyfriend pick you up if you have to drive somewhere - especially if he's in route or if you're on the way - that is better than taking 2 separate vehicles
  
• Buying Seventh Generation products (trash bags, toilet paper, napkins, etc - trusting that they're not using used ply for the "new" toilet paper)
• Using energy-efficient light-bulbs (don't get the "bright white light" bulbs - they'll make your bathroom look like a florescent-lit cafeteria. Not cool in the morning).
  
• Recycling everything (wine bottles, cereal boxes, roommates endless issues of the Financial Times which she chooses to ignore every morning when while leaving the house, leaving them for me to pick up and whoops, did that fall into the recycling bag again?)
• Drinking out of the same water glass for a 24 hour period, and dumping old water into the plant beside your bed. Seriously, this is a daily routine for me.
  

Obviously I'm not an expert here. But I did watch Inconvenient Truth and I'm sold. Hippity-hop to it.