Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Easy Ways to Conserve H2O

With the current drought conditions in Texas and most other southern states, conserving water has become an urgent need, and it's a need that each of us can take steps to address.

For starters, check out the eBay Green Team's 10 easy water-saving tips that can “significantly cut back on the 80 gallons of H2O that the average American uses every day.”

1. Slow the flow
2. Flush smarter
3. Put less down the drain
4. Turn it off
5. Fill ‘er up!
6. Think ahead
7. Check for leaks
8. Raise your glass
9. Catch what you can
10. Grow it out

Information about the eBay Green Team.

Learn More, Get Involved, Take Action -- Useful Top Tens

It's Top Ten Tuesday, plus April is Keep America Beautiful month, Thursday is Earth Day, and April 30th is Arbor Day. What a great time to check out ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, as well as embrace going green.

10 Top Tens: Ideas, Tips, Resources, and News

• Emerging Environmental Technologies – from LiveScience
• Endangered Species – from World Wildlife Fund for Nature
• Environmental Films – from Karl Burkart at Mother Nature Network
• Green Jobs – from InventorSpot
• Green Trends – from Government Technology Magazine
• Green Twitterers to Check Out – from Yuka Yoneda
• Reasons to Recycle – from the National Recycling Coalition
• Ways to be Green – from Yahoo! Green
• Ways to be Greener Through Better Networking – from Mark Leary at Cisco Systems
• Ways to Save the Planet – from HowStuffWorks

Live Green, Breathe Purple -- Check it Out

Lights out Saturday night

Earth Hour 2010 takes place on Saturday 27 March, 8:30pm - 9:30pm (local time) and is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world to turn off the lights.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change.

To find out more information about climate change, visit the EPA's Climate Change webpage to learn basic information, get answers to questions, and find out what you can do.