A COMMUNITY ON THE
VERGE OF EXTINCTION
GREEN YOUR BACKYARD
• Eliminate catalogs by mail.
• Remove your name and address from mailing lists.
• Donate outgrown children’s clothing, toys, or books to a local non-profit.
• Look for sustainable palm oil products.
WASTE
ENERGY
A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES
TRANSPORTATION
• Layer your clothes.
• Use compact florescent light bulbs.
• Adjust heat and A/C settings.
• Insulate your house.
• Open blinds/curtains during the day to allow sunlight to warm the house.
• Unplug appliances when they are not in use.
• Upgrade windows
• Conduct an energy audit.
• Carpool.
• Avoid idling.
• Use public transportation.
• Ride a bicycle.
• Walk, it's good exercise!
• Lump trips together to eliminate unnecessary travel.
• Keep tires properly inflated
• Buy a hybrid or electric vehicle.
REUSE/RECYCLE
• Use both sides of a sheet of paper.
• Buy recycled and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper.
• Use 100% post-consumer recycled paper products.
• Bring your own cloth bags when going shopping.
• Recycle your printer cartridges.
• Recycle any old cellphones.
• Create a garden or add planted pots
• Plant native plants
• Preserve tree canopy
• Use manure/compost
• Create a rain garden
• Eliminate fertilizers and herbicides
• Use efficient irrigation systems
• Reduce creation of waste
• Compost landscape and garden waste
• Compost food scraps.
• Use worm composting.
• Properly dispose of all hazardous materials.
• Buy a waste basket made of recycled steel.
WATER CONSERVATION
• Reduce water usage.
• Run your dishwasher only when it’s full.
• Collect rainwater with a rain barrel.
• Turn off water while brushing your teeth.
Save Energy to
Save Animals!
Every day we utilize electricity to fuel our homes, power our appliances, and supply light. The process for generating energy consists of burning fossil fuels, which produce greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which pollutes our air, water, and produces toxic waste. By reducing the amount of energy we use, this in turn improves the lives of wildlife. We need to stop damaging our natural resources because they are what thousands of animals call home. There are alternative sources of renewable energy that have less of an impact on our environment such as solar energy. If we continue to partake in the way of life that humans consider as “normal” we are then instituting and investing in our own destruction of all living things on the planet. The sun has been around for more than 4 billion years; it is the main benefactor for all life on earth and our solar system. Why not utilize it for our energy demand to produce clean electricity through the sun’s solar energy with less impact on human, animals, the environment and all living things.