Happy Earth Day Tips

Happy Earth Day!

We recently asked our fans on Facebook to share their suggestions for being earth-friendly:

Tips to tread a little lighter on Mother Earth:

• Use a reusable water bottle
• Grow your own food
• Support local farms and farmers and shop at farmer’s markets
• Compost
• Recycle
• Walk to work / school
• Reuse plastic food containers for leftovers
• Pick up litter
• Reuse plastic grocery bags
• Turn off lights & appliances when not in use
• Vegetarian diet
• Buy eco-friendly and organic products
• Use cloth diapers
• Wash laundry and dishes in large loads
• Vegan diet
• Buy green eco-friendly cleaners
• Work from home
• Teach children how important the environment is
• Use reusable shopping bags
• Use a clothes line instead of dryer
• Shop at secondhand thrift stores

Earth-friendly initiatives the Soul Flower warehouse practices:

• We use Priority Mail boxes (which are post consumer recycled)
• We rarely add packaging materials into boxes, but if we do it’s all reused
• We print on recycled paper (your invoice is recycled!)
• We offset our climate footprint through Carbon Fund
• We switch off all stereos, speakers, and lights at the end of the day
• We only heat our large warehouse room while we’re in there
• We have a community fridge that encourages us to bring our lunch
• We recycle all unusable paper, cardboard, plastic, metal and glass

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Are there any tips you’d add to this list?