1.  Make official looking “Energy Patrol” badges for your children and entrust them with the task of ensuring that lights are off, doors are closed and, for older kids, unused electronics unplugged. Create a weekly incentives chart with rewards such as special time spent together, healthy treats or small, green treasures or components for an eco-game, such as Xeko. (Your prize? An energy savings of hundreds of dollars a year.)

2.  Send Celebrate Green!’s new Happy Earth Day e-cards to a half dozen friends. Don’t forget one as a “high five” for your local organic farmer!

3.  Snap a funny, stunning or inspiring photo or video and submit to the EPA’s Earth Day and Video Project.

4.  Conjure your inner-plumber and fix a leaky faucet. It’s not as hard as you think and doing so can save up to 100 gallons a week.

5.  Stop the forty-one pounds of junk mail you receive each year by joining MailStopper. (Since this action takes just a few minutes, how about canceling subscriptions to catalogs, newspapers or magazines as well?)

6.  E-cycle your old bunny-eared television set and other obsolete electronics and keep heavy metals out of our groundwater and soil.

7.  Talk to the PTA or principal at your children’s school about instituting a waste-free lunch program and say “adieu” to the 18,760 pounds of lunch waste your school is likely contributing to landfills each year. (If every student in America adopted a waste-free lunch, approximately 3.5 billion – that’s billion – pounds of trash would be diverted from landfills.)

8.  Take a navy shower. You’ll use about 3 gallons of water as opposed to the 60 you normally do.

9.  Pick up after your pet. Animal waste may account for up to 25% of the bacteria in our water so if you can flush it, do, if not, secure in a bag and include in your trash.

10.  Take the HGTV/Change the World Earth Day Quiz to find out how green your family is and what steps you can take to reduce your carbon footprint -every day.