if someone asks you...

If someone asks you, "okay, what can I do to help the environment?", start them with easy steps.

here are five:

Reduce your water heater temperature setting by 5 degrees

Buy five canvas bags and use them wherever and whenever you go into a store. (Not just at a grocery store. Any and every store where they would otherwise give you a disposable bag.)

Drive five less miles every week. (And if they can, ask them to drive five less miles three days every week!)

Keep showers to under five minutes.

Change five light bulbs to energy efficient ones. (If they have changed all of theirs, have them go to work on their parents, children, friends.)

Oh, and one more. Talk to five friends about the importance of changing personal behavior to be more environmentally sustainable.