Josh Dorfman turns even the most skeptical trash-generating man around with a worm composter, sugar cane disposable plates, and reducing the need to sneak bags into the neighbors’ trash cans.

In honor of The Lazy Environmentalist’s new Sundance Channel show (it premieres tomorrow and it’s really good!), I’m trying to be less lazy about being green. One thing I cannot give up is magazines. Ironically, I write a design blog and read a ton of them online, but I just can’t sacrifice the glossy pages. I am careful to pass them along or directly recycle them, but I do realize I could be helping the environment by not contributing to the use of paper and the energy it takes to deliver them. However, this week I did do a few more things to be SLIGHTLY less lazy environmentally. I think taking baby steps is a good start.

Obviously I recycle, and I try to be careful about recycling plastic and cardboard food packaging. One thing I realized is that I change out the paper towels all the time. You have to understand, my dad was a sales manager for P&G for many years, and a lot of those years were spent in paper. Thus, I don’t usually even say “paper towels”, I just say “Bounty.” I was raised hard-core on the stuff. Anyway, I go through Bounty like it’s going out of style. This week I only used it for one little microwave McMuffin kind of thing because the instructions said to wrap it in a paper towel. Otherwise, it was all cloth napkins and dishtowels for me this week. Hey, it’s something. Now that the drought is over in Georgia, I will keep my water conservation going but I don’t have to freak out about every little item that needs to go in the laundry.

The other thing I realized was that I was not recycling the little cores from the toilet paper. I’m never going to be so environmental that I give up toilet paper, but I can at least make the effort to collect the little cardboard rolls and put them in with the other boxes, newspapers, and magazines.

What are some baby steps you have taken to help reduce your impact on the environment lately? Please share them in the  comments. I’m going to keep watching The Lazy Enviromentalist to find out what else I can do. Sitting on the couch in front of a funny TV show is about the laziest and most pleasant way I can think of to educate myself.

P.S. You can take a big step by buying sustainable products. All of the sustainable products design public carries are right here.