Sustainable Choices

Category: wildlife

1 Replace all or part of your lawn with a pollinator meadow
2 Talk with others about issues of sustainability
3 Accept that there is no "planet B"
4 Keep dead trees for use by birds, small mammals, insects
5 Learn to appreciate the intangible and all its value
6 Study nature more and pay less attention to the works and doings of humanity
7 Read and study sustainability and clean energy news sources
8 Share your knowledge of sustainable practices and products
9 Don't make overpopulation worse
10 Reduce your consumption in general
11 Change your attitude about what constitutes "progress"
12 Reject the temptation to take "souvenirs" from nature
13 Learn more about nature in general
14 Learn about your local ecosystems
15 Question every claim and every norm of the currently prevailing system of destructive consumption
16 Write to your representatives
17 Support the economy of the non-material
18 Reduce your use of plastic
19 Choose hobbies that help sustainability
20 Get your property certified as wildlife habitat
21 Provide habitat for wildlife and insects
22 Stop using pesticides and other poisons
23 Plant native plants on your property
24 Remove non-native plants on your property
25 Learn how to best manage interactions with wildlife
26 Adopt natural forms of mosquito abatement
27 Buy an insect house
28 Adopt natural forms of tick abatement
29 Learn more about the non-recyclability of plastic