While you’re recycling your Christmas wrapping paper and eating your locally grown Christmas dinner, have a think about what green actions you’re going to take next year.

Here are 20 ideas to be greener in 2011. Pick five and let us know how you get on!

1 Spend only four minutes in the shower (it’s still enough time to get clean!)

2 Put veggie peelings in a compost bin

3 Collect rainwater from a drainpipe in a water butt

4 Make birthday cards rather than buying them

5 Give wearable but unwanted clothes to a charity shop

6 Try shopping for clothes in a charity shop

7 Try growing a vegetable or a herb from seeds

8 Take your own reusable bag when you go shopping

9 Replace ordinary lightbulbs with energy-saving ones

10 Put on a jumper before you ask for the heating to be turned up

11 Try walking instead of jumping in the car for a short journey

12 Buy food grown or reared near to where you live rather than from abroad

13 Try to eat seasonal food

14 Repair something instead of binning it and buying new

15 Swap something with a friend instead of buying new

16 Join your local library and borrow music and books instead of buying them

17 Use paper, toilet rolls or kitchen towel made from recycled paper

18 Plant bee and butterfly-friendly flowers to attract insects to your garden or windowsill

19 Put food and water out for birds

20 Drink tap water rather than bottled water