What Can I Do?

Since I don’t know who my readers are, I am going to cater this post to those who have no idea how to ’step softly.’  This list is just a start to the many, many ways that you can make a difference.  I will try to blog about these individually . . . uh . . . later.

  • Air dry your laundry on a clothesline
  • Bake your own bread
  • Buy as much organic food as you can
  • Eat a vegetarian diet
  • Compost all food and yard waste
  • Don’t use paper anything, including paper towels, napkins, tissues and if you’re ready– toilet paper
  • Use cloth everything, diapers, wipes, tissues, for cleaning, etc
  • Use cloth shopping bags
  • Eat local and buy local
  • Grow food organically—in your own garden
  • Keep your thermostat low in the winter and high in the summer
  • Recycle everything, or as much as you can
  • Use 100% recycled toilet paper, or cloth (see above)
  • Use a DivaCup or cloth mama pads
  • Use low-flow shower heads
  • Use natural yard care practices
  • Use a Kleen Kanteen instead of bottled water
  • Take one of these to the coffee shop
  • Don’t buy disposable items, or single-use items
  • Look for less packaging on the things you buy
  • Buy more in bulk to reduce packaging
  • Store food items in glass containers.  Get rid of your plastic
  • Use every side of a piece of paper before you recycle it
  • Don’t get a receipt from something you purchase unless you absolutely need it
  • Use homemade natural cleaners
  • Decrease your amount of garbage
  • Use hand dryers in public restrooms instead of paper towels
  • Rinse/reuse plastic bags and aluminum foil
  • Use glass jars for storing food in fridge and for bulk items
  • De-clutter and donate continually.  If you buy something new, get rid of something
  • Don’t buy anything new.  Shop at thrift stores
  • Use all natural body care products

  • Replaced your Teflon stainless steel or cast iron

  • Wash only full loads of laundry and wash on cold

This is not an exhaustive list by any means.  These are just ones that I could come up with off the top of my head.  Most of these can be undertaken pretty easily.

Filed under: Bath and Body, Cloth Diapering, Gardening, Green Cleaning, Green Living, Homesteading, Making Home on March 14th, 2010

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