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Regular readers of this blog know that I’m all about going green. Partly because it’s good for the world which we live in. And partly because Leonardo Di’Caprio is and he’s cool. I’m kidding.

But I’m not kidding about the importance of going green. As far as I’m concerned, paper is a total waste of money. I want everything digital on my laptop or mobile phone.

Here’s a few other suggestions offered by World Watch Institute:

Walk or bike, or ditch the whole commute completely and work from home. You really don’t need to go into work if you’ve got a phone, remote desktop, and an Internet fax account.

Buy as much as you can used. For one thing, it’s good for the world to use things longer, but retro is also in. I’m a big fan of furniture from the 50’s and 60’s. Why buy Ikea that looks like this period, when you can buy a much better version of the same design from the era that invented modern?

You can shop at your local market. The less gas used to get the food to you, the better for the world.

Start a compost pile. This might sound a little farmy for some of you, but it’s not a bad idea.

Be sure to read the other super ideas and go green.

I believe in doing what we can to save the environment. I think that sometimes people fail to conserve because the world seems like such a big place and out of one’s control. It’s hard to think that actions of one person can change such a large globe with so many systems involved.

But it’s this kind of thinking that’s destroying the environment. The world is hurt by lots of little people like you and me failing to act responsibly.

Besides, sometimes impossible things aren’t as impossible as we think. When we think that fixing the problem is impossible, failure becomes a surety. So let’s have a little optimism.

And let’s use a little common sense to do our part. It isn’t huge. We don’t need to move next door to Leonardo Di’Caprio in his New York green apartment complex. We just need to make some small but helpful changes. Hopefully those small changes, collectively, will add up to exactly what needs to happen to fix the big problems.

So start by finally switching over to a fax to email account. Don’t print up so many papers. Recycle the newspaper. Change your light bulbs. These things aren’t hard, but on the whole, the whole will be helped by our small actions.