As new year is coming in, our time to act in order to combat global warming is getting shorter. Hence, we all need to be more aware of what we do on our daily lives. Of course, we still need to enjoy our lives, but with more conscience.
Hope we all could collaborate on tips to get a bit greener in our daily activities. We have read lots of tips already. We need something simple yet often overlooked ideas.
Here are some that come to mind at present, something obvious that have been mentioned lots of times before:

* Car pooling. This could substantially reduce your emission and save monies as well. We could really do with less car and pollution on the road everywhere. If riding a bike to work is not a viable solution, then car pooling could save you monies and the environment. It is very unfortunate that in certain country/states that electric bikes are not supported. We need to work together to allow high speed power assisted bikes to ensure the greener approach to commuting short distances. Please share your stories in your part of the world on the success/issues with electric bikes.

* Reduce travel times to the shops.
Do your shopping weekly rather than daily if possible. If you need to do it daily, then arrange a group shopping with like minded neighbours.

* Turn off all lights of electronics when they are not in use even when it is in a sleep mode. Sleep/ready mode does consume a fair bit of energy.

* Grow your own vegetables or buy local produce. Transportation does produce lots of carbon emission. Buy local goods for fresher and less carbon emitting fruits and vegetables. Choose organics if you can for less impact still to the environment.

* Reuse water to save water. Get aluminium bowls, large ones preferably to hold water from washing fruits and vegetables. They could be used for soaking dirty dishes and then water the garden. Be very careful though to ensure that it is not salty, oily and too rich in the detergent to avoid killing your plants.

* Change light globes. Energy saving globes could significantly use less energy with the same lighting requirements.

* Most importantly, be a vegetarian . You cut down one of the major carbon gas emission contributors. If you follow this step, all the other tips become very insignificant indeed !

Please share how you do your bit to be green.