a) Use less water: When you shower, wash you casual clothes with soap and water, in the shower and hang them out to dry. Climate permitting, they'll be dry by the morning. Permanent Press cotton clothes perform the best in these circumstances. If you consider it, by washing your clothes daily, or every other day, you will save a tremendous amount of water that is normally used in the washing machine In temperate climates, perhaps reduce your bathing to once every other day. Drink less water. Drink only what your body really needs-not what you think or have been told you ought to drink. Experiment and find out how little water your body actually requires.
b) Find ways not to drive a car; walk, run, bicycle or take the subway train. There is very little pollution involved and it is healthy for maintaining your physique, muscles, respiratory, balance and blood circulation systems; reducing the onset of obesity and sickness. You may install a shower and changing room at your office to encourage more active participation.
c) Eat every other day: Extensive research has shown that there are numerous, very good reasons to change your eating habits to accommodate this. 1) With animals, under laboratory conditions, such a calorie restrictive diet has proven to significantly reduce and/or eliminate diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. 3) You will reduce your consumption of natural resources by 50%. 4) Your organic waste is reduced by 50% to 65%. 5) By not spending time buying food, cooking food, or being served food, you can save more than 1100 hours a year. 6) You are much less likely to become sick and / or obese. Find out how little food your body actually needs.
d) Grow your own food and eat it: Every person should know how to grow a vegetable and fruits garden and teach others how to do it and exchange information to improve its ways and means for countless generations. To grow one's own food is to survive at the most basic level and requires little financial means. There is always a place to grow food: the roofs of buildings, abandoned sites, an apartment window box, the abandoned field or forgotten backyard, an abused or neglected area of a park, as long as you have seed, soil and water, something edible can grow.
e) Design and make your own clothes: If you design and make your own clothes you are much less likely to throw away your clothing and this saves a huge amount of wasted fabric, buttons and clothing materials that can be well used. It also allows other people to want to get to know you and your ideas about what you are wearing. Clothing becomes a socially active device for interaction. Globally, everything we buy is thrown away in six months. For clothing it is as little as one week.
f) Learn how to design and build everything you use: This allows you to use your creative imagination, ingenuity and practically to minimize consumption of mass-produced goods, of buying into the "planned obsolescence" blindness of consumer spending, falling into buying what you don't need. Self-reliance encourages creative and imaginative growth and character/personality development.