Increasingly, people are demonstrating how it’s getting easier to be green. They’re doing this by taking steps to save money and energy and help the environment all at the same time.

Even better, many are making these environmental contributions without leaving home. Here are some examples of easy, low-cost things you can do:

• Break the bottled water habit and drink tap water instead. It’s estimated that families often spend hundreds of dollars a year—maybe more—on bottled water. Many, if not most, of these empty water bottles are destined to end up in a landfill. Making the move to drink tap water from a reusable bottle can help consumers save money and aid the environment.

• Switch to paper towels made from recycled paper. Over 90 percent of American households use paper towels, creating over 3,000 tons of waste each day. Switching to recycled roll paper towels can help cut down on all this trash.If every household in the U.S. replaced one roll of non-recycled paper towels with a roll of 100 percent recycled paper towels, some say it could save over 850,000 trees and nearly 3.5 million cubic feet of landfill space. It would also save water and energy and help reduce the amount of pollutants released into the air.

These and similar environmental tips are the focal point of a half-hour reality series called “Wa$ted” airing on the Planet Green television network.

Each week, co-hosts Annabelle Gurwitch and Holter Graham audit a household’s waste as well as its energy, water and transportation consumption. The members of the household then have three weeks to reduce consumption. If successful, the participants receive financial rewards that reflect the amount of money they are saving now—and may save in the future.

Author, activist and actress Gurwitch is well known for taking on social and environmental issues with her own brand of humor and perspective. As Annabelle’s dashing co-host, Holter is never afraid to share his broad range of conservation knowledge with even the most treacherous of eco-offenders, happily helping them to break their bad habits without.

“Wa$ted” airs on Wednesdays at 9 PM ET/PT on Planet Green television network.  To learn more, visit the Web site at http://www.planetgreen.com.