Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
Nordstrom will introduce environmentally friendly packaging options for its customers throughout 2008, including:
100 percent recyclable paper shopping bags rolled out from April through September. The bags currently have propylene handles that are not recyclable.
Gift boxes made of 100 percent recycled paper stock that is 30 percent post-consumer waste starting with the holiday season. The silver foil on the current gift boxes will be converted to a matte silver ink.
Reusable shopping totes big enough to fit two shoe boxes starting March 15 (West Coast stores only initially).
Nordstrom has not yet announced whether it will be providing a take back program to recycle these bags and boxes.
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