Sustainable YOU
Did you know YOU can be Sustainable TOO? Here are some ways that can help get you started…
- Using less water (shorter showers, turning it off when brushing your teeth)
- Eating less meat
- Avoid food waste
- Walk, bike, or carpool
- Save energy (turning lights off), use natural light
- Add or remove clothing rather than changing the thermostat
- Take the stairs instead of elevator
- Avoid buying plastic wrapped items
- Shop at bulk food stores
- Donate clothing
- Compost
- Spend more time outside
- Borrow books from the library
- Regularly prepare home cooked meals
- Stop accepting disposable cutlery
- Avoid paper towels
- Using reusable grocery bags, water bottles, coffee/tea mugs
- Recycling
- Use cloth rags for cleaning
- Use reusable utensils
- Use reusable food containers
- Shop secondhand
- Use cloth paper towels
- Reusable cotton pads
- Reusable bags (snacks, lunch, freezer bags)
- Reusable menstrual pads or cups
- Using sustainable laundry detergent and cleaning supplies
- Grow your own produce, fruit, and herbs
- Purchase recycled toilet paper
- Buy sustainable bar shampoo, conditioner, and soap
How you can lessen your impact everyday - try this checklist.
- Sustainability Snipits (Sustainability club)
- Bit on Greenwashing
- Researching what you buy and understanding what certain words mean
- Understanding sustainability in the desert
- Biking on campus
- Plant herbs and veggies
- Cloth pads/menstrual cup
- Clothes Swapping
- Own cutleries
- DIY and Upcycling
- Water tumbler
- Bulk Shopping
- Shampoo bar
- Resuable shopping bag
- Food container
- Metal / Bamboo straw
- Own toiletries when traveling
- Buy secondhand
- Baboo toothbrush
- Greens only
- Handkerchief
- Donated fabrics
- Composting
- Makeup cotton pad
- Rent / Gift / Borrow
- Attend a zero waste talk / event
- Recycle at home
- Pickup instead of postage
- Reusable cup