Sustainable Choices

Category: land use

1	Replace all or part of your lawn with a pollinator meadow
2	Grow some vegetables
3	Grow some fruit
4	Share your knowledge of sustainable practices and products
5	Change your attitude about what constitutes "progress"
6	Adopt low-tech when it helps sustainability
7	Talk with others about issues of sustainability
8	Read and study sustainability and clean energy news sources
9	Accept that there is no "planet B"
10	Keep dead trees for use by birds, small mammals, insects
11	Learn to appreciate the intangible and all its value
12	Eat less pork
13	Eat less beef
14	Don't make overpopulation worse
15	Stop eating pork
16	Stop eating beef
17	Learn about soil biology and soil health
18	Learn about your local ecosystems
19	Research innovative sustainable products in development and give them early support
20	Buy experiences instead of products
21	Waste no food
22	Question every claim and every norm of the currently prevailing system of destructive consumption
23	Write to your representatives
24	Reduce your consumption in general
25	Change your attitude about what you "need"
26	Support the economy of the non-material
27	Install a greywater system
28	Remove non-native plants on your property
29	Choose hobbies that help sustainability
30	Support local farmers' markets
31	Plant native plants on your property
32	Provide habitat for wildlife and insects
33	Promote healthy soil
34	Buy an insect house
35	Stop using pesticides and other poisons
36	Stop using synthetic fertilizers
37	Learn about organic gardening
38	Eat more vegetables
39	Become a walker
40	Use a bicycle
41	Get your electricity from a solar farm
42	Become a locavore or partial locavore
43	Learn about all-season gardening
44	Mulch or compost organic matter on your property instead of sending it to the landfill
45	Live with others and share resources
46	Get your property certified as wildlife habitat
47	Make good use of grass clippings from lawn mowing
48	Chop up leaves with a lawn mower for compost