This is a list of many things you can throughout your house to help the environment! You absolutely do not need to be everything on this list! I am only trying to give you a wide range of ideas of how you can make your every day life more environmentally friendly. I hope you take a look!

Kitchen

1. Buy reusable cloth towels/napkins instead of paper ones
2. Eat your leftovers
3. Try to conserve water
4. Buy local, Buy organic, eat seasonally
5. Buy cage free eggs
6. Use your dishwasher-it uses less water than hand washing
7. Remodeling your kitchens? Take a look at these eco friendly designs! LINK
8. Use reusable cloth produce bags
9. Use reusable glass Tupper wear containers
10. Use a stainless steel or glassware bottle instead of buying plastic ones
11. Use stainless steel straws
12. Use a metal lunch box
13. Buy bamboo utensils
14. Use a hand coffee grinder
15. Use cloth bowl covers
16. Use reusable tea bags
17. Use a French press
18. Use beeswraps LINK
19. Store greens is a glass of water
20. Shop bulk
21. Bring a reusable coffee cup
22. If you eat seafood, make sure it’s not endangered or overfished
23. If out buy a set of beverages with a 6-pack ring, (soda, beer, etc.) cut the rings before you through them away. This will prevent any wildlife from getting stuck in the rings
24. Eat less meat
25. Have a vegetarian day

Cleaning+Bathroom

26. Use seventh generation, Mr. Meyers, or Earth friendly products when cleaning. They all are plant based and eco friendly
27. Use a bamboo toothbrush
28. Use natural soap LINK
29. Use a Shampoo Bar
30. Use glass jars as storage
31. Buy s bamboo hairbrush/comb
32. Use metal scissors
33. Take a look at Earth Breezes Laundry Sheets! LINK
34. Bring your own toiletries when traveling
35. Use a clothesline
36. Buy clothes with organic cotton
37. Renovating your Bathroom? Check out some eco-Friendly options: LINK

Outdoors+Community

38. Keep a rain barrel
39. Throw eco-friendly Birthday parties! You’ll Find a guide on this website Under: Eco B-Day Parties
40. Lego recycles your old Legos! Learn more here: LINK
41. Happy cow can help you find Vegan and Vegetarian restaurants near you. Check it out: LINK
42. Make/Buy a bird feeder
43. Recycle your old fishing line with The Berkley Conservation Institute: LINK
44. Lonely Planet is environmentally friendly and can help you plan your travels: LINK
45. Loom for Speesees Products when shopping for children’s clothes
46. Plant Herbs+veggies
47. Get out in nature
48. Thrift store
49. Plant trees
50. Plant plants for specific local animals and insects
51. Be aware of the invasive and native species in your area
52. Use social media to support eco-friendly and pro-environment organizations, and to raise awareness on issues you care about
53. Start a Petition LINK
54. Volunteer
55. Donate
56. Follow the 3 C’s: Conserving, Cleaning, and Chiming in
57. Volunteer at a local park or beach clean up
58. Help the bees
59. Avoid pesticides in your garden.  Pesticides kill a ton of wildlife. When you spray them on your garden if is getting on the food you eat, and you do not want to be eating chemicals!
60. Plants plants that help pollinators
61. start a garden
62. Get out in nature
63. Learn more about the nature and wildlife around you
64. Thinking or redoing the outdoors? Visit this site to landscaping, decks, and the outdoor ideas: LINK

Energy

65. Wrap your water heater in an insulating jacket
66. Look to buy products with a energy star or green seal label’s on them
67. Wash your car at a self serve car wash. It may seem better to wash at home, but the runoff is very bad for the environment
68. Instead of throwing away old batteries, recycle them! Learn how biggreenbox.com or AAA Battery roundup
69. With eFax you can fax online, which is much better your the environment
70. Print the eco way at greenprint .eco
71. Use USBcell rechargeable batteries
72. Participate in staples eco easy technology recycling program
73. Always turnoff the lights when you leave the room, even id it’s just for a moment
74. Use LED lightbulbs and conserve energy whenever possible
75. Turn off the T.V. when you are not in the room or not watching
76. Walk or ride your bike to cut back of fossil fuels
77. Carpool whenever possible
78. Try to avoid traveling by airplane. It produces a very high level carbon dioxide
79. Turn down the AC
80. Check out these environmentally friendly alternatives to energy: LINK

Waste

81. recycle your glass
82. yemmhart makes furniture with eco materials Learn more about their work here: LINK
83. CARE, or Carpet America Recovery effort’s mission, is to decrease the carpet in American’s landfills by recycling it. Learn more here: LINK
84. Attend a zero waste event
85. Participate is a local cleanup
86. Sort out your recycling (Paper, plastic, glass,)
87. Take note of your Plastic consumption
88. Don’t buy items with a lot of packaging
89. Follow the 4 R’s: Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, and Rot(Composting)
90. Don’t let your balloon’s fly away. They can land in body’s of water or in an animals habitat and can easily be mistaken for food

Office+Monney

91. Storex and Rubbermaid are both companies with eco friendly office supplies
92. The pen/Marker Company Faber Castell, is Pro-environment
93. Crayola recycles their old products. They call it the ColorCycle
94. Buy recycled paper, and print as little as possible
95. Write to your representatives about what you are doing to help the environment, and what topics you think they should take action on
96. Try to use less paper in general
97. Buy and invest invest friendly companies, and try to avoid those that don’t. Talk to your financial adviser about this today
98. Use both sides of the Paper

Pets

99. Looking for an environmentally friendly pet food? The Honest Kitchen of The Wagging Green company are both great choices
100. Pick up after your pet