Take Action

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Check back soon for ways you can help create change. Of course, this is an incomplete list, but it offers a start to making change. 

Individual Actions

Each of us has the capacity to make small changes to help protect the environment:

• Turn off the lights and other electronics when you leave the room.

• Do not let the faucet run when brushing your teeth or doing dishes.

• Consider alternative forms of transit: walk, ride a bike or scooter, take public transit, and carpool!

• Bring your own bags when shopping to reduce demand for plastic bags!

• Consider buying a hybrid or electric vehicle. Check out the tax advantages available through the Inflation Reduction Act. 

• Consider installing green technologies in your home such as solar panels, high efficiency appliances, an induction stove, tankless water heater, and a heat pump heating and cooling system. Check out the tax advantages available throught the Inflation Reduction Act. 

• Consider giving up disposable cups and only using reusable cups.

• Consider buying coffee from businesses that ethically source their coffee.

• Consider buying coffee straight from the farmers instead of a larger company.

• Check your own carbon footprint. 

• Plant native plants in your garden. 

• Shop from second-hand stores. 

• Use a resource, like Ethical Consumer, that tells you if a company is ethical or not. 

• Know what brands are fast fashion and avoid buying from them. 

• Buy clothing from ethical businesses. 

Local Organizations

• Volunteer with the Arizona Sustainability Environment.

• Attend of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality public meeting, hearing, or workshop. 

• Buy from and support green businees in Arizona. See a list of them here.

• If you live somewhere that does not recycle use an ecostation in Phoenix.

• Arizona Wildlife Federation

• Arizona Wilderness Coalition 

• If you are an ASU student consider joining one of ASU's sustainabilty based clubs.

•  If you are an on-campus stdent use ASU's composting services.

• Know ASU's sustainability vision.

• Take a sustainability class at ASU. 

National Organizations

• Know who in the government is in charge of sustaibability: Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer.

• Union of Concerned Scientist 

• The Natural Resoruces Defense Council 

• Educate yourself on the Federal Sustainability Plan.

• Sierra Club

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Know who in the government represents where you live and write to them about issues that concern you. 

International Organizations

• World Wildlife Fund

• Attend sustainability conferences. 

• The Nature Conservancy 

• Read the United Nation's climate action plan.

• GreenPeace 

• Polaris-Its goal is to reshape the system that allows sex and labor trafficking 

• Fair Labor Association