Green: Survey your room, change one light bulb to a compact florescent.
Greener: Survey your house with your host family, and change three light bulbs to compact fluorescents.
Greenest:Help your school make the switch from regular bulbs to more energy efficient lighting.
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Green: Take one action that reduces your daily carbon footprint.
Greener: Help your family find a way each member can reduce their carbon emissions.
Greenest: Find a way you can help your class or school reduce their carbon emissions.
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Green: Prepare an organic or locally grown dish for your Thanksgiving dinner (or any meal!)
Greener: Go vegetarian for 3 days.
Greenest: Create a composting pile or bin for your host family, or school and help initiate its use.
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Green: Use newspaper or other “trash” to wrap your gifts, or otherwise avoid wasting new paper.
Greener: Create or cook a gift for your host family.
Greenest: Hold an alternative gift fair at your school.
*Bonus Point available this month!
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Green: Write a letter to a local official regarding an environmental issue.
Greener: Write an article or letter to the editor and send to a local or school newspaper. Get a bonus point if it is published!
Greenest: Convince fifteen friends or family members to sign postcards or letters supporting conservation issues.
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