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Call Your Reps — and Encourage Climate Action While individual actions matter, collective action (and legislated action) creates bigger, faster change. Tell your political representatives at all levels how important and necessary it is to enact policies that address climate change and make all our communities healthier and safer. Pro tip: If you’re a bit shy (us too!), call outside of office hours and leave messages. In the U.S., Common Cause provides contact info for political reps. In Canada, the On Canada Project provides contact info and even templates for letters.
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Climate Quick Tip: Call Your Reps — and Encourage Climate Action

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Kayla Sweet-Newhouse porcelain lichen sculpture
Works in Progress

A Conversation With L.A. Sculptor Kayla Sweet-Newhouse

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Climate QUick TIp: Critters Eating Your Garden Veggies? Upcycle your produce packaging and save growing fruits and vegetables at the same time. Cover your growing food with stretchy netting preventing hungry critters from dine-and-dashing. Mesh bags can protect fruit and vegetables as they grow. This Tik-Tokker shows you how.
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Climate Quick Tip: Critters Eating Your Garden Veggies?

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Climate Quick Tip: Help Birds Avoid Window Collisions: Keep your feeders and birdbaths within one and one-half feet of window areas so that birds don’t hurt themselves upon liftoff. Birds won’t be able to create enough momentum to hurt themselves at this distance. Plus you can better see the birds at your feeders! (Or place them more than 30 feet away so that birds have plenty of space to clear the house.) Take steps to prevent birds from hitting your windows.
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Climate Quick Tip: Help Birds Avoid Window Collisions

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Climate Quick Tip: Give Your Thermostat A Vacation Taking a trip for a few days? Be sure to lower your thermostat while you’re away and at night year-round to reduce energy consumption. Your energy bill will thank you. Lower your thermostat overnight and when on vacation. Check out Imagine It! for more eco advice.
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Climate Quick Tip: Give Your Thermostat A Vacation

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Climate Quick Tip: Filter Fitness Dirty filters waste energy and create safety hazards. Check and replace the filters in air conditioners and heaters throughout your home. Clean the lint filter in your dryer after each use to reduce your risk of a fire and speed up drying time. Increase heating and cooling efficiency and reduce your risk of fires by replacing/cleaning filters in your home. Check out Imagine It! For more eco advice.
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Climate Quick Tip: Filter Fitness

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Climate Quick Tip: Inflation Can Be Good! If everyone in the U.S. drove with properly inflated tires, we would save four million gallons of gas daily! Ensure yours are properly inflated and save yourself money. Dear Dot offers more car-maintenance tips.
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Climate Quick Tip: Inflation Can be Good!

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Climate Quick Tip: EV Prices Are Dropping. Ready to dump that gas-guzzler? New EVs are available for less than $40,000, and many are eligible for a $7,500 tax credit from the U.S. government. See what incentives are offered in your home state. New EVs are now available for under $40,000, in addition to a federal $7,500 tax credit.
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Climate Quick Tip: EV Prices Are Dropping

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Climate Quick Tip: Many Bad Returns: Five billion pounds of returned items and packaging end up in U.S. landfills annually. To reduce this: •Measure yourself with the size chart on company’s websites •Donate or gift the unwanted item •Shop on sites that provide clear info and customer support to get it right the first time •If you aren’t sure of sizes, shop at in-person stores
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Climate Quick Tip: Many Bad Returns

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Chicks from Half Acre Farm.
Iowa Farm Companion

From the G to the R to the Attitude

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