Start Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Today

Here are some easy ways to get started just in time for earth day. All of these ideas are painless and easy to incorporate into home and worklife.

Easy Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Now…

1. Buy Organic!
2. Bring your lunch to work or school instead of using disposables. Try our To-Go Food Ware and Utensils.
3. Stop buying bottled water and refill bottles from home. Sign the "Think Outside the Bottle" pledge. Try our banana fiber water bottle carrier to make bringing your own water easier!
4. Bring your own Shopping Bags and Totes to reduce waste. Recycle the plastic and paper bags you do bring home from the store.
5. Change incandescent bulbs to CFL's
6. Stop junkmail - save a tree.
7. Use a power strip and turn off electronics when not in use.
8. Remove caps from plastic bottles and throw them away before recycling bottle or turn in to participating Aveda locations - they cannot be recycled and defeats the purpose of recycling the bottle. Learn more
9. Save money and electricity - hang dry laundry and get that fresh scent and save the planet too.
10. Family time? Turn off electronics and try one of these activities:

• Reading
• Drawing
• Play a game
• Do a Puzzle
• Tell stories
• Make music
• Play
• Ride a bike or other exercise
• Make something together
• Fly a kite
• Make a sand castle
• Take the dog for a walk
• Have a picnic
• Laugh
• Talk
• The possibilities are endless…