Howto.Wired recently shared some information many of you may or may not know about reducing your carbon footprint and saving the Planet. Unfortunately, its just about one month after Earth Day, so I cant even make any “seasonal” statements about this.

With various web services, you can learn how to install solar panels on your house, plan the perfect carpooling schedule, fly green, and stop junk mail!

Given the steady drumbeat of news about climate change, water shortages, food riots and high oil prices, many of us are pretty well-versed in the basics of protecting the environment.

What’s lacking, particularly for us tech-lovers, are the tools to help us live our on-grid, totally Wired lives with the smallest possible impact. And we do need some help. If everyone lived like North Americans, we’d need at least five planets to support our lifestyles.

Here are some online actions you can take to “plug in greener.”

On a side note for all of you, as of today… Tutorial Ninjas has been made green. No, I am not talking about our layouts colors, look to the right of this text and you will notice our new “CO2Stats”. For more information about CO2Stats, learn more about CO2Stats.

[Reduce your Carbon Footprint via Wired.Howto.Wiki]

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