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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Climate Quick Tips: When Life Gives You Dry Lemons …

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Climate Quick Tips: A DIY Multipurpose Cleaner

Keep your shower routine clean by switching to loofahs made from natural materials, rather than plastic.  Get plastic out of your shower! For more plastic-free personal care products, check out our Bluedot Marketplace.
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Climate Quick Tips: Clean Up Your Shower Routine

Climate Quick Tip: Should you turn on the AC or crack a window? If you are driving under 40 mph, crack a window. At slower speeds, there is less air resistance, and opening your windows is more fuel-efficient than using gas-guzzling air conditioning. When driving under 40 mph, there is less air resistance. Open your windows instead of cranking the AC to maintain fuel efficiency. Dear Dot offers more tips on greening your ride.
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Climate Quick Tips: Driving Cool

Climate Quick Tips:Herbs to Go Harvest a bit too much parsley? Overbought basil? Chop up extra herbs and add them to olive oil, then freeze the mixture in a small ice cube tray. Pop out a cube whenever you need herbed olive oil for a salad or recipe. Check out Bluedot’s Guide for more tips on avoiding food waste.
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Climate Quick Tips: Herbs to Go

Climate Quick Tips: Arrest Those Pests Alliums, such as onions, chives, and shallots act as natural pest repellents in your garden. They give off an odor that masks the scent of more appealing plants that insects like to feast on, so plant them nearby. But note, too, that signs of insect life in your garden are typically healthy. Bluedot’s gardening columnist offers lots more tips on eco-friendly plantings.
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Climate Quick Tips: Arrest Those Pests 

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