Avoid crayons made from paraffin wax, which is derived from petroleum.  Instead, try using crayons made from soybean oil, which have the added benefit of being nontoxic.  America is the largest producer of soybeans in the world.  From this we could produce well over one trillion crayons-without tapping oil supplies!
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. [...]

Look for baby laundry liquids that contain vegetable-based cleaners instead of those that are petroleum based.  They’re gentler on your baby and won’t contribute to the depletion of fossil fuels.  If all babies born this year had their clothes laundered in a vegetable-based detergent, the petroleum saved would equal 1.5 million gallons of gasoline, or the [...]

Install dimmer switches where dimmed lighting makes sense, like the dining room and hallways.  Dimming a light by 25 percent saves and equal percentage of energy.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
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Try to use fewer paper napkins.  Each American consumes and average of 2,200 two-ply napkins per year, or just over 6 napkins per day.  If each person used 1 fewer napkin per day, it would save about 150 million of them from the trash…enough to provide a napkin a napkin to every person who eats [...]