Even More Saving the Planet...
...while being lazy. Get one of these unlikely-looking shower heads that use only half (or even less) water than a conventional shower head. Sorry for that obscure link - you can find bins of these things in Lowes and Home Depot. They don't look like much, but they constrict the water flow and deliver a very high pressure shower. Once you try it you won't go back. Never mind that you'll conserve water and heating energy. You can take a longer, hotter shower than before and still use less water/energy than your standard shower head.
Scam laundry balls have been reincarnated as Eco Balls. Thankfully they are not magnetic. What they are is a bit of a mystery. Although billed as "chemical free" they contain surfactants (otherwise known as "soap") and random ingredients that claim to "activate water", which by itself is totally bogus and silly claim. You have to buy refills for them, too. Something fishy going on there. Aeons ago, I complained that the magic ingredient in magnetic laundry balls was (gasp) soap. Looks like same thing with these Eco Balls. In case you've been pining away for them, magnetic laundry balls have had a little reincarnation of their own as magno balls. The new claim is that they reduce limescale by 'crystallizing lime particles'. If true this would be wondrous indeed and would surely earn a Nobel prize. What's really happening (if anything....)? A wild guess - the hard surfaced ball whacks against the sides of your washing machine and knocks lime deposits loose.