Take the Pledge to Tread Lightly

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The Guardian has a great challenge going called Tread Lightly

This week readers are pledging to install water-saving devices. We all know water is one of those things we take for granted. It supposed to be a huge issue this summer in Bejing. I've also read recently that Spain is in a severe drought and having to import fresh water by container ship to certain regions. We all remember the images in Georgia last summer:

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Tread Lightly has some great ideas that you can actually do. They're easy and can make quite a difference- one of my recent favorites was about not filling the tea kettle to full when making tea - they also actually measures the results of folks signing up to take the pledge. And speaking of water and treading lightly, remember if it's yellow let it mellow....