While not all of us can afford solar panels on our roof, many electricity providers now offer green power products that are quite economical and allow us to do a bit more to help lessen our impact on the environment.

Common salt can be be used for many applications around the home as a more environmentally friendly alternative to harsher synthetic chemicals. Salt has over 14,000 known uses - here's just a few.

While many of us use pens less and less these days, it's still an area of consumption where we can easily further lessen our environmental impact. Even in our high tech society we're still consuming billions of disposable pens each year.