Hopefully small changes will add up

Here is a list of things I have done, and will be doing shortly, to reduce my load on the environment:

• I'm using my Sodastream and groovy water filter to make my own sparkling water. The filter has improved my drinking water amazingly, and it's so nice not to be chucking out one or two plastic bottles every week.
• I'm getting my old Kingswood converted to LPG shortly. I pretty much only drive on weekends or for jaunts to Sydney, but it will make a major difference. Not only does gas have extremely light emissions compared to petrol, and especially diesel, but it's like the fuel has an octane factor of 110, so you use slightly less to achieve the same travelling distance.
• All my lightbulbs are compact fluorescents. It took a little while to find the "warm" coloured ones that don't make the place look like the office, but I'm happy with the effect. It annoys me that there is no constructive way of getting rid of the three wasteful halogen lights in the kitchen area, but I leave those lights off as much as possible. I also need to find something like an LED that will fit into my reading lamp by my bed - that's a halogen too, at present.
  
• I only buy organic meats (I eat chicken and pork, but no red meat), and organic other thingies as much as possible. I don't care so much about purported health benefits - although ingesting fewer pesticides and so on is bound to be good - but the fact you're contaminating the earth less and farming in a more sustainable manner are the stand-out benefits to me. I don't think there is any reasonable way to get rid of intensive or even industrialised farming... but I think it can be done in such a way that it actually has fewer effects than traditional methods (which require a lot of land).
• I have a bokashi bucket to take all my food waste. I'm lucky that I can add it to the compost at the CDL's, because I have no way of disposing of it in my small flat. It's working well - there is a not-too-offensive smell if I have the lid open (it smells like silage rather than rot), but otherwise it's completely unnoticeable.
• Of course, I recycle whatever I can recycle.
  
• Finally, I'm trying to fill my kettle with only as much water as I need for each use. If any of you North Americans drink hot tea and don't have a jug, get one! It's certainly more efficient than heating water in the microwave, and tea made from microwaved water is, frankly, vile (god knows why it makes a difference, but it does. Perhaps boiling it in the kettle oxygenates the water more?)

Things I need to improve:

• Turning gadgets off at the wall. There's no need for me to have my stereo and wireless router on standby all the time.
• Buying the right gadget at the right time. I'm happy with my phone, so I won't be replacing it for the next couple of years. However, I bought a new music player - the iAudio I should have bought initially - because the iPod was giving me gyp. I'll be flogging the iPod off to a colleague at work, or on eBay, but still.
  
• I've gotten my plastic bag store down to less than a dozen, but I don't need that many in reserve for my rubbish bin.
• I should probably take shorter showers, but I won't.