10 Ways You Can Be More Sustainable! (With Sporcle Quiz!)
April 12, 2018
Conserving water (a limited natural resource) is extremely important.
2) Turn off the faucet while your brushing your teeth
It’s really not that hard-plus you can save 200 gallons of water in a month.
3) Turn off the lights when you leave the room
Just do it.
4) Unplug cords when you are not using them
Cords constantly suck energy (vampire energy) from the outlets even if they aren’t being used to charge any devices.
5) Take the stairs
Get some exercise while you’re saving the planet!
6) Use a reusable travel mug
Americans throw out about 50 billion to-go coffee cups per year
7) Take a reusable shopping bag to the grocery store
Single-use plastic bags never just “disappear”, instead they end up in our oceans killing sea life and negatively impacting the environment
8) Buy local foods
Food miles, the distance our food travels from where it is grown/produced to where it is purchased and consumed, can be very harmful when high in number; this is because transportation over great distances takes a lot of energy and resources.
9) Share a fridge with a friend or use the common room fridge
10) Plant a tree
Trees produce oxygen and take in carbon dioxide, improving air quality.
Written by: Freya Rich ’20 (Web Staff Writer)