Do-it-yourself: Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
The amount of paper junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering -- some 4 million tons, nearly half of which is never opened. Even if you recycle there are still enormous environmental costs in terms of ink, energy to produce deliver and recycle the paper, recycling inefficiencies and loss of virgin forest to create the high quality glossy paper much junk mail uses. There is a lot you can do to reduce the cost to the environment and your own time:

Great information on how to get less junk snail mail.

I have a dream that the only mail that comes to my house is:
1) Letters to me & my housemates.
2) Bills that are not otherwise received electronically
3) Rare, RARE advertisements for the exact types of products I purchase. Costco does a good job of this.

I do not like: ClosetWorld. PennySaver. Charter Communications. Mortgage/Refinance offers. Gardening/Construction offers.