Want to improve your environmental impact? Here are some resources to help:
Sustainable Foodie
- Seasonal foods in your area + healthy recipes
- Plant-based recipes and more recipes here
- Save the Food: Inspiration and ideas for reducing food waste
- Substitute ingredients to use what you have
- Tips for the grocery store
- Eat Well Guide: Find sustainable restaurants, farms, and markets near you
Around the House
- EWG: Find out how toxic (or not) your personal care products are
- Earth 911: Search where to recycle specific items.
- Got e-waste? We’ve found that it’s easy to take to Best Buy for recycling
- Plastics to drop off at a grocery store (it’s more than you think): recyclecoach.com
- Tips for reducing your holiday enviro footprint
Events
Step it Up
- Participate in our 4-week sustainability challenge
- Support intersectional environmentalism
- Download the PlasticScore app and rate restaurants on waste
- Strawless Ocean: Commit to stop using plastic straws
- 9 Things You Can Do to Stop Ocean Plastic Pollution
- Learn how to see through greenwashing
- The Sustainability Guide for College Students on a Budget
Overall, we encourage buying less and supporting local but here are a few products we love and make great gifts!
- Chocolate from Alter-Eco, Ethiquable, or any of these brands
- Wine from a “Certified California Sustainable Vineyard and Winery” or that’s organic, natural, or biodynamic
- Products from B-corps or that are Fair Trade certified
- Locally-made products from farmer’s markets such as soap, jam, pickles, salsa
- Local foods wheel
Family
Books to help step it up even more!
- Sustainability Made Simple by Laurèn DeMates and Rosaly Byrd (us)
- Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson
- Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook by Dana Gunders
- And check out your local library too!
The Sustainability Co-Op 