We’ll start you off with 9 green new years resolutions - because living a life without regard to the Earth was so last decade.

I resolve to… 

1.  Give second lives a chance. I will only use paper towels, tissue, toilet paper and office paper made from post-consumer recycled content.

2.  Go veggie on Wednesdays (or whatever day of the week you choose).  For the 52 Wednesday’s of 2009 I will forgo meat and stick to veggie options (saving me money and saving the planet large amounts of greenhouse gases emitted from the raising of livestock.)

3.  Learn to love local.  Each month I resolve to learn what foods are in season and look for them at my local farmers market.

4.  Recycle recyclables.  I will finally learn what is and isn’t recycleable in my town and put everything that can be recycled into a recycling bin-always! (This includes the times I’m on the street and are tempted to throw my newspaper into the corner garbage.)

5.  Boycott water bottles for a month. Instead, I will carry my re-usable bottle with me at all times knowing that short term actions soon become habits.

6.  Fill the car up (with bags).  I will put a big stack of re-useable bags in the car for grocery shopping (and be sure to replenish them weekly.)

7.  Add variety to my mobility.  Once a week I’ll take an alternative form of transportation (i.e. carpool if I drive, subway if I take cabs, walk or bike if I take the subway)

8.  Get informed & get involved.  I’ll find out what environmental issue are being debated in my community and write a letter to my council person to give my opinion.

9.  Lead by example.  Whether its doing a little or doing a lot, the best way to affect change is to let others see me doing it.