Junior Jordan Phillips, founder of the Revolution Green LLC, offers advice for reducing your carbon footprint this year.

Doing laundry can be banal and repetitive, yet our actions leave behind a sizeable energy footprint.

When washing your clothes, for instance, between 85 and 90 percent of the energy used by the machine is just for heating water, according to Energy Star, the official government organization tasked with labeling energy-efficient products. By switching from hot to warm water you can cut your electricity usage in half.