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Is it possible to go green without spending a dime? Sure it is! We highlight tips that won't cost you a cent and even ways you can receive environmentally friendly products FREE. Living more sustainably has never been easier (or cheaper!).

Free Money Saving Green Tips

Leave your wallet in your pocket or purse - these great free tips will help you reduce your impact, and some will even save you some dough:

• This tip turns your toilet into a low-flow model without tools or special equipment:
  • Reduce Your Water Bill with a Simple, Free Trick
• Reduce junk mail with these two free services:
  • Reduce Your Junk Mail with ProQuo
  • Free Junk Mail Removal Service
• Improve your gas mileage with these links:
  • How to improve your gas mileage
  • Fuel Efficiency Tips @ Ask MetaFilter
  • Top 10 Ways to Reduce Your Gas Consumption
• Here's an easy tech tip to save trees:
  • Save Paper: Widen Your Document Margins
• This fun tip goes way beyond puppets:
  • Recycle Your Socks Into Something Useful

Free Green Stuff

With so many companies and governments trying to green their image or save power, many are going as far as giving away valuable green products and services. To keep track of all the free green goods check out our frequently updated "free" tag.

• Compact Fluorescents (CFLs) save you over $30 each when switching from incandescents - imagine getting them free! Here are some of the CFL giveaways we've featured in the past:
  • 4 Free CFLs with Paperless Billing @ British Gas
  • 4-pack CFLs $2.97 or Free + $2 at Home Depot
  • Con Edison handing out free CFLs in NYC
  • Free CFL Bulb @ LightingDirect.com
• Here are more green products you can get free:
  • Free Wildflower Seeds from Burt's Bees
  • Free Organic Green Tea with Newletter Sign-up
  • Free Subscription to Organic Gardening Magazine
  • $25 Credit and Free Thermostat for Ontario Residents
  • Free Lead Test Kit
  • Free cruelty-free cosmetics shopping guide
  • Free DIY Planet Repair Toolkit
  • Free stuff for GTA residents!
• Reusing goods to keep them out of the landfill is an important part of greening your life - it is the second "R" after all. Well guess what? There are online services dedicated to helping you reuse other people's stuff:
  • Borrow and Barter with online services
  • Give Stuff, Get Stuff with The Freecycle Network
  • Find Free Stuff in the Trash with GarbageScout.com
  • What About Curb-Side Shopping?
  • Find Free Stuff Locally with Craigslist
• You can even reuse someone else's couch right in their own home:
  • CouchSurfing: Free, Green Accomodation
• Learn about sustainability with these free MIT courses:
  • Free MIT course on Sustainable Energy
  • Free MIT course on Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005
  • Free MIT Course on Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
  • Free MIT lecture: Energy in a Global Context

Free Donations

You can earn free donations to environmental charities with the following links.

• Earn donations as you play:
  • Play a game, feed the needy
• Earn as you shop:
  • Saving the world while shopping?
  • Credit Cards that Help the Environment
• Earn as you read:
  • Free $100 donation to fight climate change
• Earn as you toss your old stuff:
  • Trade Your Old Gadgets for TerraPass Credit with RipMobile

Even Earn Money The Green Way

If free isn't good enough for you the following links can earn you cold hard cash while you do the right thing for the earth:

• Send your vehicle to Car Heaven when it dies
  
• Recycle your old iPod for 10% off a new one
• Turn Your Old Laptop Into Money
• Recycle Your Cell Phone For Money
• Costco Electronics Trade-In and Recycling Program
• And there's always our roundup of green job sites.

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