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Climate Quick Tip: Go Native In Your Garden Native plants typically provide more nutrient-rich food and better habitat for birds than non-natives. Visit The Audubon Society to discover the most bird-friendly native plants for your region.
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Climate Quick Tip: Go Native In Your Garden

Climate Quick Tip: Shower Savvy In consistent drought conditions, while waiting for your shower to heat up: Keep a pail handy and collect the cold shower water and use it to hydrate indoor and outdoor plants.
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Climate Quick Tip: Shower Savvy

Climate Quick Tip: More Bulgur, Less Burger Researchers estimate that livestock-based food production causes about one-fifth of all global greenhouse gas emissions. It also sacrifices land for growing crops to feed livestock and for raising those animals. Consider changing your meat-based diet to one rich in plant-based meals. Check Bluedot Living’s site for great recipes.
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Climate Quick Tip: More Bulgur, Less Burger

Climate Quick Tip: Secondhand = Carbon-free Clothes If everyone in the U.S. buys one secondhand clothing item instead of new this year: •We can save 6 billion pounds of carbon emissions. •This is like taking half a million cars off the road for a year. Buying just one clothing item per year can reduce up to 6 billion pounds of carbon emissions — the equivalent of half a million cars!
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Climate Quick Tip: Secondhand = Carbon-free Clothes

Climate Quick TIp: Toss the Pods! Ditch the dishwasher pods that dissolve into microplastic in our water systems in favor of more Earth-friendly options: •Avoid phosphates •Look for fiber-coated pods rather than plastic coating •Purchase plant-based powders and plant-based, oxygen bleach •Avoid plastic containers
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Climate Quick Tip: Toss the Pods!

Climate Quick Tip: Avoid a Tumble If You Can. Did you know that using a tumble dryer for one year emits more carbon than a tree can sequester in 50 years? And the constant tumbling wears out your clothes. Opt for a clothesline or a foldable drying rack and do the world, and your clothes, a favor.
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Climate Quick Tip: Avoid a Tumble If You Can

Climate Quick TIp: Renew Your Stuff With Restart Looking for a place to fix, rather than throw out, an electronic item? Restart wants to reduce e-waste via “Repair Cafes,” hosted in six states across the U.S. Visit Restart’s website for tips on fixing household items.
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Climate Quick Tip: Renew Your Stuff With Restart

Climate Quick Tip: Clean Clothes, Less (Environmental) Woes: To avoid shedding microplastics with each load of laundry, consider installing a filter on the outside of your washing machine. They can extend the life of your machine and septic system for those who have one. And they keep microplastics from our synthetic clothes out of waterways.
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Climate Quick Tip: Clean Clothes, Fewer (Environmental) Woes

Climate Quick Tip: Don’t Be Clingy: In many municipalities, plastic wrap can’t be recycled. Use reusable beeswax wraps instead. [Pro tip: To make them “cling” to a container, use the warmth of your hands on the beeswrap first.]
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Climate Quick Tip: Don’t Be Clingy

Climate Quick Tip: For appliances long past their usefulness, use the Environmental Protection Agency’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) to dispose of them in an earth-friendly way.
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Climate Quick Tip: A Rad Idea

Climate Quick Tip: Take your no-longer-working twinkle lights to hardware stores, such as Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Ace, to be properly recycled.
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Climate Quick Tip: Lights Out

Climate Quick Tip: Phantom power sucks roughly 10 percent of a home’s energy use, sometimes even when your devices aren’t charging or hooked up at all. •Unplug items when not in use, such as countertop appliances or chargers for electronics. •Purchase power strips with timers so that items are turned off automatically. •Group items that are typically used together and plug them into a single power bar. •Purchase a Smart Plug Take steps to eliminate phantom power and save money.
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Climate Quick Tip: Exorcize the Phantom

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