#100waystogogreen

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#15 plant wildflowers 

The bees, especially those living in the wild are in trouble. They don’t find enough blossoms to collect pollen and nectar from in urban areas. Help them by throwing seedbombs with wildflower seeds everywhere in town!

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#13 bamboo toothbrushes

Bamboo grows very fast, so it is the perfect material for an item that needs to be replaced every three month. Unlike plastic. A plastic toothbrush is used for a couple of weeks and then stays on this planet for several hundred years, since it will not biodegrade. That makes no sense. Switch to bamboo. Plus: You can just burry the old brushes in the backyard. 

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#14 turn all the lights off Especially today, it is literally about turning all your lights off. It's earth hour at 8.30 pm your local time. Living in the dark for one hour is a message that you care about our planet. But turning everything off you don't need at the moment is something important every day. So much energy is wasted by tv's nobody's looking at or lights in rooms with no one in it.

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#11 bring your own cutlery

This is an easy one: Carry around a set of cutlery in your everyday bag. You can use an outdoor camping set or just go with your normal forks, spoons or sticks. Whenever your eating out anywhere in a place that doesn’t offer reusable cutlery, just use your own and skip the plastic. You can just put them in the dishwasher when you are back home and save a ton of plastic. 

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#12 renewable energy

Not everybody has the chance to, but if you have the option to change your power supplier, do so. It might seem obvious, but people underestimate the power we have. We can vote with our dollars for the world we want to live in. Also, check what company is behind the green power supplier of your choice and try to find one who is not part of a  big coal or fracking company. 

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#10 ask for a real mug and plate

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#02 bring your own cup In the U.S. alone, more than 150 million single use coffee cups are ending up in the trash every. single. day. I don't even dare to calculate what that would mean for a year. Bringing your own cup every day will easily save 365 cups a year. That's huge. Bonus: many places will even give you a discount for bringing your cup.

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#01 public transportation When it comes to sustainable and eco friendly ways to get from A to B, people always yell 'bike'. Well often, bikes won't work, the places are too far apart, it is raining or we have to look nice when we arrive, so we ditch the bike and go by car. But there is a solution: public transit offers a wonderful way to get where you want, especially if you live in a city. Let's do it like the New Yorkers do and take the subway. Or the bus, whenever possible.