• Try to limit car use when possible (use a bike or walk when you can)
• Take reusable grocery bags
• Use reusable produce (fruit & veg) bags
• Try to buy natural/organic and less packaging (buying in bulk) where you can
• Try to take your own drink bottles to avoid buying drinks and wasting plastic

In the Garden
 

• Create a pond and overgrown garden surround to create a safe home for frogs and other wildlife.
• Divert water from the washing machine (and bath/shower if you can) onto the garden
• Don’t have a fussy garden that needs a lot of water 
• Bucket out water from the bath, collect water from household use, to put on the garden
• Keep the lawn long so it doesn’t dry out as quickly
• Compost
• Sweep up leaf litter off the footpath/driveway to use as mulch for the garden 
• Use old soft drink bottles in those spike waterers to help keep plants watered without using too much water
• Grow some of your own fruit and veg
• Not using chemicals on the garden/pests (vinegar for weeds, boiling water for ants, beer to attract and drown slugs & snails instead for example)
• Keep backyard chickens to provide you with eggs and manure for the garden – which also recycle kitchen scraps. The best type fo food for them are loose grains (and food scraps) rather than pellets which can contain meat byproducts and other questionable ingredients. And let them free range as much as possible - not only for their happiness, but eating green grass makes the yolks golden.
• Install a water tank – even just a little one

In the Laundry

• Divert all washing machine water into the garden
• Use the water saver or Eco setting on the washing machine and do only full loads, no prewash loads
• Do not use chemical stain removers, soakers, disinfectants, fabric softeners etc. just eco-friendly detergent (like soapnuts) with a splash of eucalyptus or lavender oil for freshness if needed.
• Stop the machine before it does a rinse cycle to save water and power
• Don’t own a dryer – dry all laundry outside on the line or on racks inside.
• Rarely iron… hang washing well to avoid wrinkles
• Wear clothing more than once (unless it’s looking dirty) to limit amount of washes.
• Make your own laundry liquid 

In the Kitchen
 

• Keep a small bucket/container (an old milkcarton works well) in the sink and a larger bucket somewhere handy, and when running the hot tap to get it warm, collect all the water and put it in the bucket for using on the garden.   You can even collect water from rinsing vegetables, washing your hands, rinsing crumbs off a plate, or rinsing out a coffee mug… 
• Switch off appliances like the microwave from wall when not actually being used (as clock displays waste power)
• Recycle all recyclables and try to buy food with less packaging
• Try to make food items instead of buying prepackaged ones.  Baking cakes from scratch instead of using cakemix, baking crackers and muesli bars instead of buying school snacks.
• Use a reusable sandwich wrap/bag or plastic lunchbox instead of using cling wrap.
• Use a silicone baking sheet instead of single use aluminium foil or baking paper
• Food scraps (peelings etc.) go into compost or the chickens  (Or if you have a dog, you can save carrot ends and things, pop them in a ziplock bag int he freezer and make a dog food stew with those and meat when you have enough saved)
• Make homemade pet food for cat and dog (Make sure you look up recipes online to ensure they get the nutrients they need)
• Use lemon juice and bicarb soda (Baking soda/bicarbonate of soda) to scrub bench tops instead of cleaning products - just sprinkle on the bicarb, then squeeze lemon juice on and let it foam, then scrub.
• Limit use the dishwasher if hand washing would use less water in your situation.  If washing by hand, fill one sink (or a bucket), with hot water and do the rinse in that rather than under running water.  Rinse water can then be used on the garden.
• Use an eco-friendly dish washing liquid
• Wash the floor with just Very hot water (as in just boiled) - or add little lavender essential oil and a little dishwashing liquid – no disinfectants
• Use knitted dishcloths - they last longer than sponges and can be washed in the washing machine more effectively
• Don't use paper towels to mop up spills – make cloth ones instead, or use a sponge
• To disinfect sponges, wash them out thouroughly first, then lay them in the sink with the plug in and cover with boiling water (you can put some teatree or eucalyptus oil in too if you like), or boil them for a few minutes in a saucepan.
• Buy more organic foods
• Make a Solar Oven

In the Bathroom
 

• Use organic herbal shampoo & conditioner, or try "no poo" - which is a method of using just baking soda and vinegar as shampoo.
• Use natural Herbal bathroom products, like toothpaste, natural castille soap, deodorant, moisturiser, facial cleanser
• Clean with Baking Soda, vinegar and lemon juice instead of chemical cleaners
• Run the shower into a bucket to collect water while the water is heating up (to go in pond or on the garden). Shower with the bucket still in the shower to collect more water for the garden.
• Bucket out bath water for the garden
• Instead of running the tap to wash hands frequently, have a container of water and a bit of soap and teatree oil in the sink so you can wash your hands through the day without running the tap.
• Turn off the tap while brushing teeth – use it just to wet the toothbrush and to rinse the brush after.
• Shorter showers and less often (you don't need to shower daily, and you can always give the old "pitts and nethers" a wash with a cloth between showers)
• Replace shower head with a water saver one (some councils will give you one for free – yay!)
• Dye hair with Henna instead of chemical dyes.
• Use natural mineral makeup instead of commercial chemical stuff (or just don't wear makeup)
• No hairdryer, let hair dry naturally
• Make reusable cotton balls (eg make circles of cloth to use instead)
• Use Hankies instead of tissues
• Turn the shower off while shampooing to save a bit of water.

• Buy recycled toilet paper
• Women, use cloth pads or a Menstrual Cup!
• Use washable cloth wipes as toilet paper (Even just "wee wipes", if you, like me, find the concept of the other use, too gross to contemplate).  It's not that unsanitary - just put the used wipes in a container/bag and run them through with a load of towels or something, with some teatree or eucalyptus oil.
• Recycle toilet paper rolls (and/or use them to plant seedlings)
• “If it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down”  (eg only flush if it's solid contents) - you can use collected buckets of water to flush the toilet with (though I have found that this isn't as affective as actually flushing) - if you can stand the sight of the innards of a toilet cistern..... the easiest way to flush a toilet with collected water is to leave the top of the cistern off, and just flush as normal, but bucket water in before the cistern fills itself from the pipes.
• No chemical toilet cleaner  - use Baking Soda and Vinegar
• No chemical air fresheners for toilet (make your own from a spray bottle of isopropyl alcoloh or distilled water and essential oils)
• Get a dual flush toilet, or better yet one of those fancy new kind with the sink above it!

In the Rest of the house (other ideas)
 

• Switch light globes to energy saver ones.  LED lights are more energy efficient, but more expensive and less bright unfortunately.
• Limit burning of candles - yes....  burning candles is actually not so great for the environment - for a start most candles are petroleum based, plus you have the fact they burn oxygen... If you burn candles, use beeswax ones.
• Try to turn off lights when not actually using them
• Avoid using flyspray and other chemical pest control
• Close doors/windows to keep heat in/out… try to use a fan instead of airconditioning, keep curtains closed during summer and you can even stick aluminium foil to the windows to try and reflect heat away from the windows.  In winter, open the curtains if the sun is shining - to warm the house, and close curtains earlier in the day to retain heat inside te room.  Rug up instead of turning the heat on high.
• Use Cloth Napies (diapers) on nappy-clad youngsters
• Put an extra blanket on the bed instead of using the electric blanket - put on bedsocks and warm jammies to keep warm at night rather than having heaters on.
• Try to keep things that don’t need to be on (extra tvs etc.) off/unplugged until needed.
• Set up computer to go into power saver mode after a short period of time of inactivity, and turn off at the wall when turning it off at the end of the day.
• Look into renewable energy (though be careful as some aren't actually helping much - still, having green energy as 10% of a carbon burning one is still better than nothing)
• Use only recycled paper for the printer
• Reuse old printed on paper for printing stuff that isn't as important
• Use cellulose Stickytape (which looks and works the same) rather than plastic.