I am changing my choices, if I am out I try to bring my metal reusable drink container, with bamboo straw, with me, but if I haven't got it I will buy a glass container, refuse a straw, or ask for a reusable drink container. If buying a large bottle of juice I only buy with glass bottles now. I bring reusable bags to the grocery store. 

I have bought bamboo toothbrushes, and straw for drink, and cutting boards in the past, and will now keep an eye out, if I am going to buy something, to try and find it made of bamboo.

That was interesting. Makes sense that ground meat goes bad quicker.

I looked at an online energy audit and evaluated my apartment. Of the things I have any control over; we use low-energy light bulbs and keep lights off when possible. I don't leave my laptop plugged in. In summer I put foil over the west windows to keep sun out and reduce need for a fan (I reuse same foil). It's a very old building and the windows are leaky, but the heat is centralized steam heat and does not come on based on the actual temperature of my apartment.