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.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal appeals court has barred logging in a Sierra Nevada forest.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the federal government failed to explore other ways to raise money to fight forest fires when it approved a plan to award timber contracts to cut down trees on three sites in the Plumas National Forest.
The Forest Service says the logging of commercially valuable trees is needed to help pay for thinning of less desirable smaller trees and brush.
Environmental groups say the logging plan fails to protect scarce species such as the California spotted owl, marten and Pacific fisher. Attorney General Jerry Brown joined the environmental groups in appealing a lower court decision last year that authorized the government to allow the timber contracts.
