What can you and your family do to be kind to the environment TODAY? Here are 50 simple, earth-friendly actions.
- Buy eco! Super cool and environmentally friendly shoes, purses, skateboard earrings, platters, picture frames, batteries, cars, and more are readily available these days
- Recycle electronics, including computers, printers, cd players, and toys
- Build a garden using native plants
- Incorporate Integrated Pest Management practices into your garden
- Buy groceries in bulk
- Take a reusable bag to the grocery store
- Ride a bicycle to work or to take care of errands around town
- Watch environmentally themed movies such as Sacred Planet
- Carry a reusable mug, everywhere
- Use recycled-content copy paper
- Purchase remanufactured toner cartridges
- Research ways you can help the environment
- Practice Environmentality with your family
- Buy recycled office products
- Unplug electronics when they are not in use
- Use a dry erase board instead of paper
- Reuse the backside of discarded paper for scratch pads
- Recycle as much as possible
- Purchase clothes made from recycled materials, such as plastic bottles
- Buy products that contain natural or organic ingredients
- Use energy conserving light bulbs
- Buy in bulk
- Use a reusable lunch tote
- Limit your use of polystyrene (Styrofoam)
- Rideshare
- Celebrate Earth Day
- Build a backyard habitat
- Learn more about the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund
- Recycle Tyvek envelopes
- Recycle your soda can tabs
- Recycle batteries
- Check your tire pressure
- Reward people who practice Environmentality
- Donate or recycle cell phones
- Visit Environmentality.com
- Recycle six-pack rings
- Recycle old greeting cards
- Host your own recycled art contest
- Use recycled construction materials, such as plastic lumber
- Reduce your junk mail
- Compost
- Recycle old eye glasses
- Participate in an environmental volunteers event
- Purchase or rent an alternative fuel vehicle
- Use a low-flow shower head
- Recycle videotapes
- Use a dry erase board instead of paper to share notes with your family
- Check out an environmental blog online
- Buy water in bulk so you don't have to use individual water bottles
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Go Green! 50 Actions You Can Take Today
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Sernine says:
Recycle electronic is very important for environment, and it's a big problem to solve because of all the chemical pieces inside...
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mamabearof5kids says:
Another thing you can do to go green is cloth diapers!! There are many types out there, not just prefolds and pull up plastic pants!! lol Not only will you save in your pocket book, but also you will keep millions (if everyone would that could) of diapers out of the landfills.
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flashoyun says:
I think they are all very useful. Once community enough informed. We save alot of energy for world living. Also if we use emails instead of mails or paper. It helps forests.
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