Linking to a local-to-me online bookseller, rather than Amazon. (Changing a-a-all my affiliate links is going to be a chore, though.)
I’ve started switching my book and DVD links from Amazon to 
Powell’s. Powell’s is an independent bookstore headquartered in Portland, OR. Their RL store sells new books as well as used books (so you can go there and resell your books you’ve outgrown…or never liked much in the first place…and get some that you *do* like.) Powell’s is closer to where I am, geographically, than Amazon’s shipping-center in the middle of the continent. Thus, things shipped to me from Powell’s warehouse will use less fuel as well as generate less heat and pollution. Little, tiny, possibly infinitesimal things; but every little bit helps. (The fact that their selection and prices are comparable to Amazon’s…doesn’t hurt.) I test-ordered a book from them, and it arrived just as promptly as a similar order would have arrived from Amazon.
I’ve chosen to be paid in store credit, rather than cash - since some of the cash I’d receive would undoubtedly end up back in their hands, anyway. This just keeps things neater. (Besides that, Amazon has enough PR. They will not exactly be suffering by this change of mine. And switching affiliate links, on fits my contrarian nature well enough.)
I’ll still be linking to CDs on Amazon (because Powell’s sells DVDs and books, but not CDs), but all movies and books will gradually be linked from a different online store.
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