Sustainable YOU
Sustainability doesn't work unless we are all working towards it together on and off campus. Here are ways that YOU can be sustainable in your personal life to help us with our effort for a more sustainable future!
- Using less water (shorter showers, turning it off when brushing your teeth)
- Eating less meat
- Avoid food waste
- Walk, bike, or carpool
- Save energy (turning lights off), use natural light
- Add or remove clothing rather than changing the thermostat
- Take the stairs instead of elevator
- Avoid buying plastic wrapped items
- Shop at bulk food stores
- Donate clothing
- Compost
- Spend more time outside
- Borrow books from the library
- Regularly prepare home cooked meals
- Stop accepting disposable cutlery
- Avoid paper towels
- Using reusable grocery bags, water bottles, coffee/tea mugs
- Recycling
- Use cloth rags for cleaning
- Use reusable utensils
- Use reusable food containers
- Shop secondhand
- Use cloth paper towels
- Reusable cotton pads
- Reusable bags (snacks, lunch, freezer bags)
- Reusable menstrual pads or cups
- Using sustainable laundry detergent and cleaning supplies
- Grow your own produce, fruit, and herbs
- Purchase recycled toilet paper
- Buy sustainable bar shampoo, conditioner, and soap
How you can lessen your impact everyday - try this checklist.
- Sustainability Snipits (Sustainability club)
- Bit on Greenwashing
- Researching what you buy and understanding what certain words mean
- Understanding sustainability in the desert
- Biking on campus
- Plant herbs and veggies
- Cloth pads/menstrual cup
- Clothes Swapping
- Own cutleries
- DIY and Upcycling
- Water tumbler
- Bulk Shopping
- Shampoo bar
- Reusable shopping bag
- Food container
- Metal / Bamboo straw
- Own toiletries when traveling
- Buy secondhand
- Baboo toothbrush
- Greens only
- Handkerchief
- Donated fabrics
- Composting
- Makeup cotton pad
- Rent / Gift / Borrow
- Attend a zero waste talk / event
- Recycle at home
- Pickup instead of postage
- Reusable cup
