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Some great advice given already. Your goals are very reasonable if not a little below what you can do with some practice. I have a 2002 Acura RSX-S and I average over 38mpg and have managed 41.5mpg. With the Acuras, because of the higher compression ratio you have to be careful not to lug the engine, so if you shift and your car hesitates (feels like it burps), you're shifting at too low of an RPM and need to avoid that at all costs. For my Acura (which redlines at 7,900rpm), I generally shift between 2,500-3,000 and don't let the engine lug below 1,900rpms.
Driving Without Brakes (DWB) and Driving With Load (DWL) are the two techniques that really started the improvement and got me up to 36-38mpg. The rest is never letting my car idle and never paying for gas to go downhill (Engine Off Coasting (EOC)). If I can see the cross traffic lights or there's more than one car in front of me at the light, I turn off my engine until I see the cross traffic light go yellow (buys about 1.5-2.5mpg).
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