Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
3TV PHOTOS: The brown cloud 3TV VIDEO: Clean-air campaign launched 3TV VIDEO: Running Out of Air
PHOENIX -- Maricopa County is kicking off a huge media campaign designed to get the public to help clean up our hazy air.
Dubbed Running Out of Air, the goal of the campaign is encourage people to change their behavior to cut down on the amount of dust, soot and grime that coalesces into the brown cloud that often chokes the Phoenix area.
The county put $1.4 million into the media blitz, which hones in on some specific behaviors, including carpooling, trading leaf blowers for rakes and slowing down while driving on dirt roads.
The Environmental Protection Agency is putting pressure on Phoenix to clean up the air, and the sanctions for not getting it done are severe.
If the city misses the EPAs clean-air goals, it could face the loss of more than $1 billion in federal highway money.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
