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Climate Quick Tip: A Climate for Clean Caffeine Globally, plastic coffee pods generate 576,000 tons of waste. Instead, use reusable pods in your coffee machine. You can even fill them with your own blend of grounds! Switch to reusable coffee pods to cut down on waste. Dear Dot guides you toward a sustainable cup of coffee.
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Climate Quick Tip: A Climate for Clean Caffeine

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Climate Quick Tip: Save Water With One-Pot Pasta

Climate Quick Tip: Plastic-Less Party Planning When planning your next hosting gig: Avoid single-use plastic dishes and straws and instead opt for reusable plates, cups, and cutlery. More elegant and less wasteful. Stay away from balloons and glitter, which enter our water systems and kill marine animals. Instead decorate using fabric decorations, string lights, and live plants. Imagine It! offers tips on how to plan a waste-conscious party by avoiding single-use plastics and decorating with reusable items. Dear Dot reminds us that balloons blow.
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Climate Quick Tip: Plastic-Less Party Planning

Climate Quick Tip: A DIY Self-Watering Plant System Recycle glass (or plastic) bottles into self watering systems for your plants. Fill the bottle with water and push deep into the soil. (It will gush at first so be quick!) Then water will slowly seep out of the bottle keeping your plant’s thirst quenched. Want to propagate your house plants and swap with friends? Bluedot’s gardening columnist tells you how.
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Climate Quick Tip: A DIY Self-Watering Plant System

Climate Quick Tip: Think Outside the (Moving) Box: Re-use a relocated friend’s boxes, or get free boxes at U-Haul’s  "Take a Box, Leave a Box" drop bins stationed at every company store and independent dealers. U-Haul also has an online exchange forum where customers can buy, sell, or give away boxes and other moving supplies. Reuse boxes, thanks to U-Haul, and take advantage of others’ moving supplies at U-Haul’s online exchange forum.
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Climate Quick Tip: Think Outside the (Moving) Box

Climate Quick Tip: Make it a Green Move If you’re on the move, use the opportunity to responsibly dispose of unwanted items (check out Bluedot’s Guide to Getting Rid of Almost Anything). Avoid cardboard boxes by stuffing the drawers of your dresser, filling your tote bags and backpacks, and stuffing your suitcases. Use towels, clothing, and linens to protect breakables, rather than using plastic bubble wrap.To responsibly dispose of unwanted items, let Bluedot’s Guide to Getting Rid of (Almost) Anything help.
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Climate Quick Tip: Make it a Green Move

Climate Quick Tip: The key to getting rid of an old piano? Take note! Don’t let your old and unwanted piano collect dust. Instead: Check out Bluedot’s Guide to Getting Rid of (Almost) Anything for advice on rehoming, repurposing, or recycling a piano. Still usable? Try posting it on a Piano Adoption site! Rehome, repurpose, or properly dispose of your old, unwanted piano using these tips. Try a piano adoption site.
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Climate Quick Tip: The key to getting rid of an old...

Climate Quick Tip: Don’t Over Charge When you leave your cell phone plugged into its charger all night, it is using up unnecessary energy even after it has charged to 100%, damaging your phone battery and raising your electricity bill. Instead, charge it at a time when you can unplug it as soon as it reaches max battery power. Unplug your phone as soon as it reaches 100% power to prevent unnecessary damage to your phone’s battery and your electricity bill.
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Climate Quick Tip: Don’t Over Charge

Climate Quick Tip: Lose The Lint Dryer lint should be removed from your filter each time you use your clothes dryer for safety and to boost dryer efficiency by as much as 75%. Wash your lint filter regularly with warm soap and water to remove waxy deposits from dryer sheets. Better still, use dryer balls. Clean your dryer filter regularly, and wash the filter with warm, soapy water. Bluedot loves Friendsheep dryer balls.
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Climate Quick Tip: Lose The Lint

Climate Quick Tip: Cutting Costs, Cutting Consumption To save energy and money, consider making your next thermostat a programmable one. Each programmable thermostat costs $100 or less and can reduce your energy consumption by over 20%. Reduce energy use and save money by upgrading to a programmable thermostat.
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Climate Quick Tip: Cutting Costs, Cutting Consumption

Climate Quick Tip: Treat Plants to a Tea Create “compost tea,” a nutrient rich liquid from your food scraps. Just soak fruit and vegetable scraps overnight in water, strain out the solids (toss them in your compost pile), and use the “tea” for nutritious indoor and outdoor plant watering. Fruit and veggie compost soaked in water makes a nutritious solution for plant food. Want more compost tips?
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Climate Quick Tip: Treat Plants to a Tea

Climate Quick Tip: Grow a Scrappy Supply Create an at-home harvest. •Cut used green onion stalks to about an inch long, keeping roots and bulbs intact. Plant these in a small pot that gets at least six hours of sunlight, water regularly, and watch them grow. •Cut off the bottom inch of a celery stalks, set it in a small bowl with just enough water to cover the bottom, and place in sunlight. Once roots sprout, replant into a larger pot. •Untangle the roots of living herbs and replant them in a larger pot. A single purchase of green onion, celery, and living herbs from your local grocery store can kickstart an abundant supply of home-grown food when you replant them, ensuring you never have to rebuy easy-to-grow produce again.
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Climate Quick Tip: Grow a Scrappy Supply

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