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Yes! It is possible!

1. Pay all your bills online

You’ll save time and fuel paying online than standing in a queue for hours and later eating a fuel-guzzling meat patty on processed bread and trans fat-filled fries, then taking a fuel-guzzling cab or adding your weight to that piece of public transport home (costs less if you weren’t on it). Plus tell the billing company to stuff that monthly bill and send it to your email - save trees!

2. Watch your DVDs on your computer

Stuff that 50 inch widescreen HDTV. Well, who needs it anyway when you have your 21″ LCD computer monitor attached to your laptop, which combined, are so much more fuel-efficient. In addition to saving much money from NOT buying the TV, running an LCD monitor uses much less electricity than a CRT while using a laptop uses a LOT less electricity than a desktop (plus all those kickable parts - that’s how I broke my final and very last desktop - actually my chair did).

3. Book your air tickets online

They’re even cheaper online than offline. I swear! I haven’t called a travel agent in years. Then again I haven’t gone for a holiday in about that long so never mind. Not travelling. That’s green too.

4. Shop online

Aside from shipping that puny little thing you bought online and the 4 hours worth of electricity you’ve spent on browsing, you saved money and fuel utilised, from travelling to the mall, eating at the mall, travelling back from the mall with snacks you never intended to buy and the puny little thing you could have bought online.

5. Chat with your friends online

People actually spill more when typing to a pretty avatar. Didn’t you read MSNBC’s article on how bikinis turn men into boobs? It is hard enough to catch up with friends nowadays. Everyone is so busy with their lives. Plus chatting online relieves some workplace boredom and loneliness so it’s really good for morale. Tell your boss that the next time he catches you chatting to your friend who was also fortuitously online at the same time.

6. Turn off your screensaver

It saves your screen but no less electricity than when it is on. Turn off your monitor at the switch. That’s just as easy and you burn more calories doing so that if you just walked away. Seriously. Don’t believe me? Check out Mr Electricity’s authoritative website on saving electricity. He knows physics. He’s my new idol.

7. Turn it off when not using

The myth that it uses more electricity to start again than leave on has long been debunked. So turn it off and give that computer a rest already. Plus in case someone sits at your desk and tries to login to your computer, he or she will have that evil BIOS password to contend with. If you haven’t installed one already, what are you waiting for!

And for all the couch potatoing, let’s go take a walk round the block and stretch that achy back. It’ll save a fuel-guzzling trip to your masseuse.

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