Green Team

2013 Earth Day Events in San Mateo County

The top 65 ways Israel is saving our planet

Green Tips

At the Office

  • Reduce, reuse and recycle paper, cardboard and newspapers
  • Set printer defaults to duplex
  • Recycle bottles, cans and glass
  • Recycle printer cartridges, electronics and batteries
  • Recycle organic materials
  • Bring your own coffee cup and water bottle
  • Use dishes and silverware, not disposable food ware
  • Try the Commute Alternative Program
  • Set up a carpool even a couple days a month
  • Ride the train even a few days a week
  • Walk, bike or take the bus
  • Carpool to off-site meetings
  • Conference call instead of traveling when possible
  • Drink Hetch Hetchy, not bottled water
  • Take the stairs, not the elevators
  • Use a power switch for all your electronics
  • Flip the switch when you leave (lights, computers, other electronics)
  • Ask for a hybrid from the motor pool
  • Help your office become a certified "Green Business"
  • Submit green ideas to the Green Team via the Green Portal
  • Be a green example

At Home

  • Replace household bulbs with compact fluorescent lights
  • Install timer systems on heat and air systems
  • Insulate with recycled denim
  • Have a home energy audit
  • Consider green power options
  • Compost your organic waste in bins available from RecycleWorks
  • Build green when constructing or re-modeling your home
  • Recycle books through used bookstores
  • Use cloth napkins and tablecloths
  • Use less hot water
  • Install a clothes line - air-dry your clothes

In the Garden

  • Plant a green space at home or in your community
  • Collect and re-use rainwater for irrigation
  • Install a drip irrigation system in your garden
  • Replace your lawn with groundcover to reduce water usage
  • Plant trees
  • Give trees to others to plant

At the Market

  • Take reusable grocery bags to the market
  • Buy local, eat local - shop at farmer's markets
  • Purchase EnergyStar appliances
  • Purchase products with high recycled content
  • Patronize Green Businesses in the Bay Area
  • Suggest that your local businesses consider green practices

Getting Around

  • Ride your bicycle or walk around your community
  • Drive a hybrid, electric, or bio-diesel vehicle (or scooter)
  • Maintain your car to improve gas mileage
  • Set up a carpool board in your community
  • Advocate for more bike lanes in your community

With your free time

  • Share your green efforts with your children, family and friends
  • Volunteer with reforestation projects
  • Donate household items for re-use
  • Advocate for green practices at work

And the most important one of all: Analyze and reduce your carbon footprint! 

Energy Upgrade California

Click on the following links to download the slides from the presentation at PSC:

Energy Upgrade California presentation 9/25/11
Energy Upgrade California recommendations 9/25/11

Attachments:
Download this file (EUC Presentation 092511.ppt)Energy Upgrade California presentation 9/25/11[01]
Download this file (EUC Recommendations 092511.ppt)Energy Upgrade California recommendations 9/25/11[02]
Download this file (Top 65 ways Israel.pdf)The top 65 ways Israel is saving our planet[03]