12 tips for sustainability @ home
Not sure where to begin in your personal sustainability journey?
We've GOT YOU with these 12 impactful strategies (some require personal behavior change!):
1. Switch to green energy, install Heat Pumps or go Solar. Follow Wildgrid, Rewiring America, Electrify Now (electrifynow.net) or you can get community green energy via CleanChoice Energy
2. Start composting! check WasteNot, Inc., Block Bins, COLLECTIVE RESOURCE, INC. (google your local provider/bonus: do it in your yard) Organic waste is a huge generator of methane, which is 20x more potent than CO2 in the atmosphere.
3. Donate Your Surplus Food / AmpleHarvest.org takes it from home gardeners, Copia works with businesses, MEANS Database works with all kinds of folks!
4. Eliminate or drastically reduce beef & lamb from your diet (bonus points for all meat or vegan/vegetarian!)
5. Purchase reusable produce/grocery bags, compostable trash bags & compost them after you dump your recyclables/trash into bins
6. Shop your local farmers market or support a CSA - support regenerative farms! (https://lnkd.in/gVZ-66h7)
7. Eliminate paper towels in favor of reusable cloths, change toilet paper to bamboo based and choose eco-friendly, low-waste cleaning products like Cleancult
8. Ditch single use plastics to the best of your ability - bring your reusable water bottles, coffee mugs, dishes with you in the car/ask people to use your vessel - they typically are glad to! (Notice how much single use plastic there is in our world; it's seriously hard to avoid but we must try!)
9. When you choose to travel, make an effort to measure and offset your travel emissions. I use Commons to offset not only my travel but the entirety of my purchasing footprint (i.e. the emissions of everything I purchase, because everything we buy has an emissions footprint). {For group travel, of course, we have the solution to that too: PURPOSE Net Zero}
10. Do your due diligence on understanding recycling in your community and how to be sure you are doing it right. It's said that only 34% of America recycles - and only 9% of plastic gets recycled. We can do so much better!
11. REWILD your yard to support local biodiversity (and rewild your psyche, too, getting into nature and appreciating it's beauty for at least an hour out of your day, it's said that we humans spend less than 2% of time outdoors)
12. HAVE FUN and LOVE YOURSELF. If everyone moves the needle by 1%, that's a massive shift in our planetary health; and, anything outside of love isn't truth.
BONUS:
Use our 30/30/30 rule for consumption and purchasing new clothes. If it's over $30 wait 30 days to see if you really still need it. If it's under $30 wait 30 hours and see. It's surprising how few things we really need.
