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Traditional oven cleaners contain harmful chemicals. Instead, let lemons do the dirty work.

Climate QuickTip: Green Clean Your Oven

Check out the iFixIt global repair community.

Climate QuickTip: If It’s Broke, Fix It

Use reusable menstrual products instead of disposable pads and tampons.

Climate QuickTip: Reduce Waste. Period!

Make sure you use the correct amount of your beauty products. Here’s a handy guide for how much you really need.

Climate QuickTip: Use the Right Amount of Product

Write down what is in your fridge before you go grocery shopping and plan your meals around what you already have to avoid food waste.

Climate Quick Tip: Shop Your Fridge First

Climate Quick Tip: Digitally Declutter!

If your vinyl records are starting to sing a sorry tune, donate them to any local thrift/secondhand store. If they’re damaged beyond use, consider repurposing them into decor or search the Vinyl Institute Recycling Directory’s website. Donate your no-longer-wanted vinyl records to a thrift store. If they are damaged beyond use, consider using them for decorative crafts or check the Vinyl Institute Recycling Directory for recycling.

Climate Quick Tip: Record Recycler

Gifts made with love from your garden or kitchen add a personal touch and are easier on the planet. When gifting food like Warmed Sweet and Spiced Nuts, use a reusable jar and avoid plastics. And check out these eight low-waste gift ideas straight from the garden.

Climate Quick Tip: Gifts Made With Love

When you buy beans in bulk in their dried form, you reduce packaging and save money. Bring your own reusable container when stores allow it, or buy theirs to use and reuse. Buying dried beans in bulk is cheaper and uses less packaging — and we should all be eating more beans. Find out why!

Climate Quick Tip: Beans in Bulk

If you already have parchment paper, then use it — and reuse it as long as there’s no discoloration. (Most parchment paper is not recyclable but you can buy a compostable one.) Or choose silicone for continued use. Using what you already have is always the greener choice, but once your parchment paper is discolored and no longer reusable, switch to Silpat mats.

Climate Quick Tip: Better Baking

The commercial honey industry can be an ethical gray zone. Farmed honeybees compete with local pollinators, often causing a decline in native bee populations, and common practices include clipping the Queen’s wings and selective breeding, which increases susceptibility to diseases. Consider buying honey from a local beekeeper who maintains ethical practices. Local honey is the most sustainable choice. Check out these amazing beekeepers in San Diego, Boston, and Martha’s Vineyard.

Climate Quick Tip: Sourcing Sustainable Honey

Whether you choose shiitake, porcini, bella, oyster, or other mushrooms for plant-based soups and other dishes, they offer an umami quality that can be as satisfying as meat — and mushrooms have a much smaller carbon footprint. Add mushrooms to a stir-fry, soup, tart, and more.

Climate Quick Tip: Meaty Mushrooms

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