Thank you for these suggestions. I have been environmentally conscience since I was a child, mostly because my parents understood way before it was popular that we needed to protect our environment and use less of everything. My dad, who could be a real tyrant, would even tell us to limit the times we opened the refrigerator in order to save energy. He’d say, “Figure out what you need so you can get it all at once and not have to keep opening the refrigerator!” To this day, I still try to do that. And if we threw anything away down on the ground, both my parents had a fit and made sure my siblings and I never littered again.
Your other suggestions are spot on. I found Ecosia when I went to Plant One Tree and started using it as Plant One Tree promoted it. I also joined Plant One Tree and have trees being planted in other parts of the world. It’s just a small way to do my part, along with recycling EVERYTHING that can be recycled and I even try to buy food packaged so that it all can be recycled. Of course, living in SF, one doesn’t have much choice with mandatory recycling and composting, but what folks need to do is make sure that everything that is recyclable actually goes in the recycling bin, not garbage. I am constantly on others who live in my building to make sure anything that can be recycled is not put in the garbage.
Good work! I hope others will take your suggestions. We have so much to do to combat the climate crisis, as I prefer to call it, since I believe it’s the existential threat facing our world today.
