One of the most important ways to reduce your carbon footprint is to reduce the stuff that gets produced for you. One thing people don't think about in this regards is catalogs. Think of all the catalogs you get over the course of a year. It takes half of a tree to produce the number of catalogs that an average American household receives over the course of a year. While recycling these is a great way to go, not getting most of them is an even more environmentally friendly way to go.

Towards that end, there is a new free service called Catalog Choice that you can use to reduce the number of catalogs you get. You sign up for the service, and then tell them the catalogs that you no longer want to receive. They take care of everything from there. The net result is a great reduction in waste with minimal effort on your part.