Earth Day 2021
Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we are recycling our 2020 list of 20 practices you can put in place to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle today and every day. See? It's easy to reduce, reuse and recycle. And Mother Nature will thank you.
20 Meaningful Ways to be Eco-Friendly in Quarantine (& beyond)
- Use a programmable thermostat
- Adopt "meatless Mondays"
- Shorten your showers
- Go on a hike. The City of Issaquah posted these maps & resources from the Issaquah Alps Trails Club.
- Line-dry your laundry
- Recycle your paper and cardboard
- Don't pre-rinse your dishes
- Buy Green Power from Puget Sound Energy.
- Repair your leaky faucet
- Start keeping your calendar digitally.
- Support organizations dedicated to sustainability
- Plant a tree or buy a tree certificate (such as through Friends of Trees or a living tribute)
- Make your own cleaning supplies. Check out this link for how-tos.
- Switch to paperless bills and invoices
- Compost (check out this great article from eartheasy for how to do so)
- Start a bee farm
- Plant a garden
- “Adopt” an animal at a wildlife preserve (such as through the World Wildlife Fund)
- Re-use dryer sheets
- Use your laptop instead of a desktop while at home
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