What You Can Do

Helping out the Enviroment

Help Reduce Ground Leaching

• Reduce your use of fertilizers and avoid using chemical pesticides in your yard.
• Eat organic whenever possible to help ultimately limit the demand for chemical pesticides.
• Clean your home with lemon juice, baking soda, and vinegar instead of toxic cleaners.
• Properly dispose of motor oil, light bulbs, medications, and other hazardous items.

Reduce Carbon Emissions

• Carpooling, walking, or riding a bike and using high-efficiency appliances
• Carrying a reusable shopping bag instead of plastic bags
• Storing food in reusable containers instead of those you throw away
• Avoiding products that come with excess packaging
• Not littering
• Reducing, reusing, and recycling

Protect Beaches and Marine Life

• Cut apart each plastic ring of a six-pack holder to prevent marine life and other wildlife from becoming trapped and strangled.
• Eat local sustainable seafood and avoid imported seafood.
• Don't buy jewelry or other items made from coral, tortoise shells, or other marine life.
• Volunteer to clean-up an area of beach if you live nearby.
• Visit the beach; tourism improves coastal communities.
• Lobby your politicians on environmental issues.
• Donate to an organization that protects the ocean.