Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach

At Home:

• Turn off lights when you leave the room.
• Use cloth napkins and towels instead of paper.
• Use online banking and electronic checking instead of paper checks.
• Reduce your use of gasoline by using the Internet to shop rather than driving far and wide to shop yourself.
• Read newspapers and magazines online.
• Run full loads for your washer, dryer and dishwasher.
• Replace light bulbs with energy efficient compact florescent bulbs. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
• Get removed from unwanted mailing lists at greendimes.com
• Determine your "Carbon Footprint" online and offset accordingly. JNF's GoNeutral Carbon Calculator
• Offset your carbon footprint by buying carbon offsets through TerraPass or CarbonFund.org.
• Take shorter showers.
• Turn off, or raise the temperature of air conditioning units when you’re not home.
• Shut doors and air vents in unoccupied rooms.
• Install a water filter instead of buying bottled water.
• Wash clothing in warm instead of hot, and cold instead of warm water.

At the Store:

• Buy paper products made from recycled paper.
• Don’t buy disposable products.
• Buy bulk instead of individually wrapped products.
• Bring your own reusable or recycled bags to the supermarket.

In the World:

• Plant trees at home - as many as you can. Over 300,000 acres of forest and rainforest worldwide are destroyed each day.
• Donate trees in Israel at JNF.org and domestically at americanforests.org.
• Walk a few flights of stairs instead of taking an elevator.
• Walk short distances instead of driving.
• Don’t use wooden chopsticks! Either bring your own (plastic or ceramic) or use a fork. Over 25 million trees are used to make 45 billion pairs of chopsticks each year worldwide.