Tips on how to care and get connected with nature
2: Avoid AI! Support actual artists/writers etc
3: Support/volunteer at animal shelters
4: Put out feeders and bird baths for local critters
5: Plant trees or flowers outside or in your home (make sure the trees/flowers are native to your area)
6: Talk/sing to your plants (yes plants love it)
7: This tip depends on the circumstances, but I've helped many stray dogs and cats that I randomly take in and care for till I find them a home
8: Instead of buying from factory farms, buy stuff from local farms or grow your own food
9: Spay and neuter pets (there's enough unwanted babies in the world)
10: Don't buy from breeders or puppy mills, get ones from shelters or pick up a stray
11: If you see an animal being abused or neglected, report it
12: Build birdhouses or bat boxes
13: Donate/volunteer to organizations that protect endangered species and natural habitats
14: Reuse containers, clothes and bags instead of throwing them away, learn to sew
15: Put out water for wild critters during hot weather
16: If you have leftover food, offer it to homeless or stray animals
17: Save electricity, open windows for sunlight, unplug chargers when not in use
18: Instead of cars, walk, bike, ride horse, bus or train
19: Go swimming in a lake, pond, river or ocean etc
20: Go barefoot often (in mud, grass, dirt, water)
21: Go bird watching, listen to their sounds and guess what type of bird it is or what the call means, take pictures, draw or write it down in a journal
22: Sit under a tree or by a stream, go for walks/hikes, look at the moon and stars, observe animal behaviour
23: Use a large rock to hold a door open, hold paper down or paint on, use a feather as a bookmark, make jewelry out of things you find in nature
24: Don't buy fur clothing/tails from fur farms or alligator skin pursues/shoes etc
25: Watch animal documentaries or read books
26: If you have a rodent problem, use the humane traps
