Sustainable Choices

Category: pollution

1	Read aloud the ingredients in your "food"
2	Reduce your use of fossil fuels in every way
3	Stop eating pork
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	Buy for durability
9	Read and study sustainability and clean energy news sources
10	Eat less pork
11	Eat less beef
12	Learn about natural cleaners
13	Buy natural cleaners
14	Accept that there is no "planet B"
15	Never buy bottled water
16	Learn to appreciate the intangible and all its value
17	Practice frugality in all matters of purchasing
18	Stop buying synthetic "food" that damages your health and is manufactured in damaging ways
19	Reduce your use of plastic
20	Buy experiences instead of products
21	Don't make overpopulation worse
22	Question every claim and every norm of the currently prevailing system of destructive consumption
23	Buy organic food
24	Learn about your local ecosystems
25	Research innovative sustainable products in development and give them early support
26	Write to your representatives
27	Change your attitude about what you "need"
28	Support the economy of the non-material
29	Stop eating beef
30	Reduce your consumption in general
31	Keep your car tires inflated to the proper pressure
32	Promote healthy soil
33	Consider carbon offsets
34	If you prefer to use a power lawn mower, choose an electric model
35	Refuse plastic straws
36	Choose hobbies that help sustainability
37	Eat less sugar
38	Prefer minimal recyclable packaging for all products
39	Drink tap water or filtered tap water
40	Use drying racks instead of gas or electric dryers
41	Use laundry sheets instead of liquid detergent in plastic
42	Install a greywater system
43	Give experiences and love for the holidays instead of products
44	Become a litter picker upper
45	Participate in "buy nothing" groups
46	Use reusable produce bags
47	Get exercise picking up litter
48	Learn about green building materials
49	Cook with an InstantPot instead of less efficient means
50	Record the electrical use of every device in your home
51	Learn more about the non-recyclability of plastic
52	Become a walker
53	Reduce your driving
54	Cook with an air fryer instead of less efficient means
55	Reduce your purchase of clothing that sheds microfibers
56	Learn about organic gardening
57	Stop using synthetic fertilizers
58	Adopt natural forms of tick abatement
59	Adopt natural forms of mosquito abatement
60	Stop using pesticides and other poisons
61	Use a manual lawn mower
62	Drive an electric car
63	Take up solar cooking
64	Learn about LEED certification for your place of employment
65	Get your electricity from a solar farm
66	Keep durable metal eating utensils in your car and refuse plastic utensils
67	Make your own yogurt in an InstantPot
68	Use a stainless steel canteen for water on the go
69	Prefer glass bottles over plastic
70	If you drive a gas-powered car, get regular tuneups
71	Use a shampoo bar instead of liquid shampoo in plastic
72	Stop using synthetic cleaners
73	Keep stainless steel food leftover containers in your car and bring them into the restaurant
74	Prefer groceries and products in minimal packaging and in paper instead of plastic
75	Read aloud the ingredients in your personal care products
76	Grow plants from seeds instead of buying them in plastic pots
77	Use a glass water filter with no-waste carbon filters
78	Use simple non-harmful cleaners to clean your toilets
79	Use tooth brushing tablets in minimal packaging instead of toothpaste in a plastic tube
80	Use a corded electric leaf blower
81	Use an induction stove
82	Make your own ricotta, sour cream and other cheeses
83	Use dental floss refills to reduce your use of plastic
84	Don't use wasteful K-cup coffee makers
85	Reduce your use of plastic with refillable deodorant
86	Reduce your use of plastic with a permanent toothbrush
87	Make good use of grass clippings from lawn mowing
88	Get your tap water tested
89	If you give products as gifts for the holidays, use minimal packaging
90	Take a sailing vacation
91	Make your own nut milks