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 -- In San Francisco, Slow Food Nation is under way.
Some 30,000 people are expected to gather for the Labor Day weekend festival that started today.
Slow Food Nation represents an effort to persuade Americans to reject fast, cheap food and embrace organic, local agriculture and a return to the kitchen.
Slow Food Nation marks the first major event for Slow Food USA, the American branch of an Italian-born organization. But popular appeal has been minimal, in part because -- unlike in Europe -- here it's been mostly co-opted by the wine-and-cheese set.
But this weekend's event saw the launch of a new strategy for the growing coalition of food reform and social justice groups that form the backbone of Slow Food.
The groups have released their "Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture," a 12-point plan they hope can be used as a blueprint for remaking the federal farm bill.
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