Travel/Leisure

The next time you check into a hotel for more than a day, phone housekeeping upon your arrival and decline the housekeeping service. According to commercial laundry equipment manufacturers, foregoing fresh towels and bed linens can result in saving as much has thirty gallons of water per room per day.

Resist the temptation to take those small, complimentary bottles of shampoo and lotion provided by hotels home with you. The excess packaging used for such small quantities is extremely wasteful. If guests didn't use or take them, hotels would stop providing them.

When visiting a park, never leave paths (nor allow your children to) and do not disrupt or remove anything (e.g., rocks, flowers, etc.). Leave them for the next person and everyone after them to enjoy as you have. Most importantly, leave them for the species that depend upon them.