CAR POOL / USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION We can car pool in many different aspects of our lives; school, work, events, shopping... The benefits of car pooling include; reduced use of our nonrenewable resources, reduced expenses, more time (parents helping each other), improved travel time - less traffic and transit lanes, reduced emissions, less parking spaces needed and reduced stress. We have these same benefits with public transportation.
DONATE DISCARDS TO CHARITY Not only does donating our discards to our local charities help with our land fills, but they become treasures to someone else. We share with others what we no longer need. There is a wide selection of organizations that accept donations from clothes, to knick-knacks to cars.
Another source of free sharing of your items, or to find what you've been looking for is FreeCycle at http://freecycle.org/.
EDUCATE OUR YOUTH Teach children to respect nature. Take them out on hikes, camping or biking through natural settings. Explain our connection to all. Show them how to experience the magic of quietness - the bounty of sounds around us. Teach them to pick up litter - if each of us picked up one piece of litter a day in our country, that would be 300,000,000 pieces per day! This is a great website for information and resources: www.hookedonnature.org
GREEN PRODUCTS Paints - look for Low VOC paint in local stores - for NO VOC paints Green Nest Organic Gardening & Lawn Care: dirtdoctor.com Household & Personal Care: Seventh Generation seventhgeneration.com/ can be found in health food & some grocery stores. Ecoverwww.ecover.com can be found in health food & some grocery stores.
LOCAL VENDORS By using local vendors we cut down on transportation costs, fuel consumption and pollution. There is less truck traffic adding to congestion on our city streets and highways. We are also contributing to the local economy.
PURCHASE ANIMAL SAFE PRODUCTS
STOP JUNK MAIL DELIVERY 44% of junk mail is never opened or read. Please help ease the burden on our landfills and stop your junk mail from even being delivered. Recyle any other that does make it to you. The DMA Consumer Assistance website shows you how to get off any and all lists www.dmachoice.org or Privacy Rights Clearinghouse at www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm.
STOP PHONE BOOK DELIVERY You can sign up to not receive phone books - and get them when you need them - please click here
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul." - John Muir
