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Climate Quick Tip: Electrify Tools for a Greener Lawn Make the switch to electric yard tools like lawnmowers, leaf blowers, and weed trimmers and say goodbye to the messy (and expensive) refueling process while welcoming a quiet, guilt-free experience that doesn’t contribute to air or noise pollution. Make your lawn “green", including switching to electric yard tools. These battery-powered tools don’t pollute the air or disturb your neighbors’ eardrums with excessive noise.
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Climate Quick Tip: Electrify Tools for a Greener Lawn

Climate Quick Tip: A Rainwater Remedy Feed your indoor plants with collected rainwater. Place a bucket outside on rainy days to collect the water and bring it inside for your plants. Need a few more plants? Propagate from existing houseplants and swap with friends. Place a bucket outside on rainy days to collect rainwater and bring it inside to water your new and matured plants.
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Climate Quick Tip: A Rainwater Remedy

Climate Quick Tip: Purchase (Easy) Green Energy About 1/5th of all carbon pollution comes from powering our homes. Join the roughly 8 million American households (about one in 20) who’ve switched to green power plans via their regular supplier. It’s surprisingly easy. Visit the EnergyStar site to find out what options for green power are available to you. In Canada, Energy Rates offers free info on what green energy providers are available, depending on where you live. Or purchase Renewable Energy Certificates through TerraPass. Make the switch and turn off pollution.
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Climate Quick Tip: Purchase (Easy) Green Energy

Climate Quick Tip: Clean and Green Your Car Replacing a dirty air filter can improve your fuel efficiency by 5% and save you money! Learn how to save money on gas, and reduce carbon emissions.
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Climate Quick Tip: Clean and Green Your Car

Climate Quick Tip: Whistle a Happy Tune-Up Regular vehicle tune-ups can boost your fuel efficiency by 4%. And your car will last longer. Dear Dot offers more tips on tending to your vehicle to save money and emission.
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Climate Quick Tip: Whistle a Happy Tune-Up

Climate Quick Tip: Balls of (Dryer) Fun! Dryer sheets are loaded with chemicals that can irritate skin and cause indoor air pollution. Plus they reduce the absorbency of towels and cloth diapers. Instead, use dryer balls! Dryer balls are a healthier, less wasteful laundry option. Bluedot loves Friendsheep.
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Climate Quick Tip: Balls of (Dryer) Fun!

Climate Quick Tip: Food for the Future Before you leave your home for work or play, pack food. Having a meal or snacks on hand when you’re out will keep you nourished and help you avoid expensive, paper- and plastic-wrapped takeout. Bringing sustainably packed food from home will keep your belly and your wallet full.
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Climate Quick Tip: Food for the Future

Climate Quick Tip: Let There Be Light On sunny days, let in as much natural light as possible before switching on artificial light. This can help save money and reduce the amount of energy you consume. Dear Dot offers more tips to help reduce your energy consumption and your utility costs.
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Climate Quick Tip: Let There Be Light

Climate Quick Tip: Castile Soap: An All-In-One Eco-Solution Castile soap can clean almost anything: dishes, laundry, hands, floors, pets, you, and more. It’s biodegradable, vegan, isn’t tested on animals, and doesn’t contain synthetic fragrances. (Avoid brands that don’t use sustainably harvested palm oil.) You can often buy it in bulk and pour it in reusable containers to cut down on plastic and waste. Bluedot loves Dr. Bronner’s castile soap, which uses only sustainably harvested palm oil. Dot has more to say on why that matters.
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Climate Quick Tip: Castile Soap: An All-In-One Eco-Solution

Climate Quick Tip: Reduce Your Junk (Emails) The energy and electricity expended by the chain of devices and data centers needed to send and store unwanted emails makes every message count. Delete those unneeded or junk emails to reduce your digital carbon footprint. By cleaning out your inbox and deleting unwanted emails, you can reduce your digital carbon footprint. And with Ecosia, you can plant a tree each time you log on.
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Climate Quick Tip: Reduce Your Junk (Emails)

Climate Quick Tip: Opt Out of Junk Mail Fifty-six million tons of junk mail ends up in landfills each year. Remove your name from mailing lists using Epsilon’s website and unsubscribe from unwanted catalogs online at CatalogChoice.org to reduce the amount of junk in your mailbox. Dot tells you how to stop junk mail and catalogs.
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Climate Quick Tip: Opt Out of Junk Mail

Climate Quick Tip: Tap Out On Wasted Water The average faucet runs two gallons of water per minute. During your two minutes twice a day of brushing your teeth, this could mean four gallons of water down the drain. Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth to reduce wasting water. Make a change in your daily bathroom routine to avoid wasting water.
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Climate Quick Tip: Tap Out On Wasted Water

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