Residential irrigation can account for up to 40% of water consumption.  By collecting rainwater and storing it for future use (such as watering your garden), you'll reduce your water bill and save on your use of this resource.  Rain barrels make rainwater collecting easy, and they can be created or bought inexpensively.

Time banking is simply about spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community. That hour goes into the Time Bank as a Time Dollar. Then you have a Time dollar to spend on having someone doing something for you. It's a simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community connections.

Create a "Take Pride in Richmond and Wayne County" program to improve our attitude towards our own community.  We currently project a negative vision to others outside our area.  I have heard it from business leaders from other cities (and right here in Richmond) all around us.  We need to have more than 20 people working to "sell" this area.  Lets get new groups organized,  Not use the same old approach by the same old group of community leaders who have lost faith in our ability to attract new business.

The Richmond Church of the Brethren is currently running a small hardware recycling cooperative, where they take in computer hardware that people are ready to get rid of, and either dispose of it properly and in the most environmentally friendly way possible, OR they breathe new life into it by reconfiguring it, using different software on it, etc.  As coordinator Mark Stosberg notes, it's resulted in some great successes, with bei