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Companies often false claims about their sustainability practices to lure in eco-conscious customers. Third-party certifications can help you sort the facts from the fiction. Learn about third-party certifications and what they mean. Bluedot’s Guide to Clean Beauty offers more tips. Or visit Bluedot’s Marketplace for tried and true products.

Climate Quick Tips: Wise Up to Greenwashing

Climate Quick Tips: Eco-Friendly Pet Grooming

Eating kelp and other seaweed varieties doesn’t just benefit your health. Seaweed absorbs CO2 from the water as it grows, so seaweed farming also has a significant positive impact on the environment. Support aquaculture by eating more seaweed, which absorbs CO2 from the ocean through photosynthesis as it grows. Read more about how it grows and ways to prepare it in your kitchen.

Climate Quick Tips: Dive Into a Seaweed Diet

Programs that recycle oyster shells to reinvigorate oyster reefs are popping up in coastal towns across the country. Check with your favorite seafood restaurant or your local municipality to find out where you can return your shells. Young oysters attach themselves to a hard surface, like another oyster shell, to survive, and oysters play a key role in filtering ocean water from pollutants. Read more about The Billion Oyster Project in the New York Harbor and shell recycling on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.

Climate Quick Tips: Save Your Shells, Save the Ocean

Wet wipes, even the so-called “flushable” versions, are clogging pipes, costing municipalities and taxpayers millions, and filling up landfills. A better choice? An old-fashioned washcloth, or paperless towels. Wet wipes are an environmental blight. Use alternatives, including washcloths or paperless towels.

Climate Quick Tips: Wipe Out the Wet Wipes

Climate Quick Tip: Extend the life of your cookware: To extend the lifetime of your cookware and improve its performance, always wait for it to cool down before cleaning. Cool water hitting a hot pan will cause it to warp!

Climate Quick Tip: Extend the Life of Your Cookware

Climate Quick Tip: Take Your Own To-Go Containers: Even take-out containers made from compostable or recyclable materials use up resources. Take your own reusable containers and ask wait staff to use those for your leftovers. SEO: Bluedot loves Ecozoi stainless-steel containers and Oxo glass containers.

Climate Quick Tip: Take Your Own To-Go Containers

Climate Quick Tip: Line-Dry Your Clothes for a Long Life: Line-drying your clothes not only saves energy (and money), it will ensure your clothes look good for a lot longer — less fading, pilling, and shrinking. SEO: Consider a portable drying rack for your clothes if you don’t have an outdoor clothesline.

Climate Quick Tip: Line-Dry Your Clothes for a Long Life

Climate Quick Tip: Eat Small Fish: Eating low on the fishy food chain — sardines, anchovies, herring — lowers your risk of consuming toxic contaminants and it’s better for the planet to eat smaller fish that are more plentiful.

Climate Quick Tip: Eat Small Fish

DIY Travel-Size Toiletries Weekend getaway? Save money (and avoid unnecessary plastic) by filling empty prescription pill containers with shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and more. For more tips on avoiding plastic, read Bluedot’s Plastic-Free Guide (and visit our Marketplace).

DIY Travel-Size Toiletries

Scratched Wood? A Simple Fix! Fix any scratches on that awesome thrift store wood table with this easy eco-friendly hack. Rub a walnut (yes, a walnut!) over the scratch. The oil from the walnut will disguise the scratch so your wood looks like new. Fix flaws in wood furniture by rubbing a walnut over the scratch.

Scratched Wood? A Simple Fix!

To rehydrate hard, dry lemons, roll them on the counter with a bit of pressure, then place them in a pot of simmering hot water for a few minutes. Use them immediately after taking them out. To rehydrate dry and hard lemons, roll them on the counter with a bit of pressure and then place them in a pot of simmering hot water for a few minutes. Use immediately, perhaps to make lavender lemonade.

Climate Quick Tips: When Life Gives You Dry Lemons …

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