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Invite birds, bugs and bats into your yard.
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Skip the pesticides and use nature's method of bug-eradication: other animals. Install birdhouses to shelter feathered friends who dine on pesky beetles and grubs. Put out egg cases of Green Lacewings or Praying Mantises (less than $15, www.mastergardening.com) and they’ll gobble up aphids. Bats, and toads will dine on mosquitoes; attract them with bat houses ($25) and toad houses you can make yourself by overturning flower pots.


Have a barbecue.

Upgrade your toilet.

Lose the lawn.

Splurge on a flat screen for your computer.

Buy locally produced organic food.


Use safer paint.

Get a solar-powered water heater.

Buy new light bulbs.

Become an expert in recycling.

Invite birds, bugs and bats into your yard.
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