Green resolutions

After watching An Inconvenient Truth and the book, I decided to try and make some changes to help reduce my carbon footprint. Thus, I looked into making a list of resolutions, since it's just about the new year after all. Here's the list:

1. Make a better effort at turning the lights off when I leave a room. Even though our landlord has installed the more efficient bulbs, it's still a waste of energy to leave them on in the bathroom or bedroom if no one is in there.

2. Ask our landlord to install a low flow shower head. I remember Clifford saying something about previously have a low flow shower head and that the lady before us must have changed it. Since Clifford pays for the water use, I would guess that he would be happy to put one in.

3. Install the surge protectors in a more accessible place to cut the power to plugged in devices when not in use. This will also cut down on energy use because most everything that's plugged in still uses power when not on. Turning the surge protector off will cut off the source of power to the six devices plugged in.

4. Look into switching to Renewable energy through Dominion Power. I believe that most utilities by law have to buy energy from renewable power if produced and that there are many providers that we could buy solar and wind energy from instead of coal fired energy.

5. Buy reusable grocery bags for shopping at the store. This one Candy has already done the last time we were at Whole Foods. We just have to remember to take them with us.

6. Buy off setting emissions through renewable energy sources. By purchasing off-setting emissions, you can cancel out carbon emissions from car and plane travel through funds used to set up more renewable energy plants.

7. Use plastic mugs to get pop at 711 instead of buying the plastic bottles.

Anyone else have other suggestions or other things they have done to help reduce their carbon footprint?