ECO TIPS

  • The FoodPrint Guide to Reducing Food Waste HERE and HERE
  •  From Beyond Plastics:  After Greenpeace ran a powerful grassroots-campaign calling on Trader Joe’s to move beyond plastic in 2019, the chain grandly announced a plan to eliminate 1 million pounds of single-use plastic from its stores as soon as possible. But three years later Trader Joe’s stores are still a sea of single-use plastic. Email CEO Dan Bane and VP Matt Sloan to demand they keep their word. HERE
  • Help restaurants reduce plastic and dry cleaners to ditch single-use plastic. Download the Beyond Plastics toolkits and pitch in to spread the word: Restaurant toolkit HERE  Dry Cleaner toolkit HERE
  • 100+ Water-Saving Tips: Check out more than 100 useful water-saving tips for your home and office. Learn how to save water indoors and outdoors. Incorporate these tips into your everyday habits. HERE 
  • Create an efficient, safe and low-impact household in a five-session workshop presented by Resilient Neighborhoods, Marin County. Held Wednesdays beginning June 29 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Register HERE
  • Find Green Products and Services: Check out the Green Pages to find the green, healthy, and ethically-produced products and services you need for home and work.  HERE
  • Learn more from Upstream about how you can support reusable-friendly businesses in your community.Reducing plastic pollution relies on increasing the availability of reusable options From Center for Biological Diversity HERE
  • Built to last: How to overcome planned obsolescence. What you can do as an individual consumer, a business patron and a voter. HERE (from the Sierra Club magazine)
  • Learning to reduce your food waste at home is as easy as learning your ABCs. To help you reduce your food waste and save money, Foodprint has gathered together all their tips, tricks, recipes and resources in this three-page, interactive, visual guide: the ABCs of Reducing Food Waste. With beautiful illustrations and handy links, this all-in-one guide takes you all the way from meal planning to preserving—and to the compost pile, of course. Making smaller shopping trips; using leftovers; learning what date labels really mean; storing food properly; and using different preservation methods are all steps to help you cut back on food waste and lower your foodprint. HERE 
  • Wondering how to electrify your kitchen? HERE
  • The Water Footprint of Food. It takes a lot of water to get your food from fields to fork—and your diet makes up the largest part of your water footprint. HERE Use the Water Footprint Calculator to find out how your diet affects your personal water footprint HERE
  • 10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint. Small changes alone won’t stop climate change, but your actions are still worthwhile HERE  from the Washington Post