• Behavioral change or time cost only (financial cost is?negligible,?but potentially takes more time and effort)
• Behavioral change or time cost ?along with a?financial?cost (sustainability?takes more money, time, and/or effort)
• Financial cost only (time and effort is?negligible?but?financial?cost is high)

Household Audit

• Start this process by calculating your household carbon footprint to understand your biggest impacts
  • The best carbon footprint calculator I’ve found is UC Berkeley’s CoolClimate Calculator
  • Another good one is the GreenPointRated Green Home Calculator
• For a more accurate assessment, hire a professional to do an energy audit of your home

• Live in a moderate climate that doesn’t require constant heating and cooling of your house. An ideal climate would allow you to be comfortable by?simply?opening or?closing?a window. Find out which areas have the lowest average carbon footprint with UC?Berkeley’s?CoolClimate Map. For the San Francisco Bay Area, a far more detailed map is available.
• In a location that is resistant to the effects of climate change?– a location that won’t be swamped by rising sea levels or floods. A location with abundant fresh water. A location that won’t require ever-increasing amounts of air conditioning to remain comfortable during rising temperatures from?global warming.
• Live in a dense city with ready access to?friends, family and leisure activities that you can access by walking, biking and public transportation.?In general,?where you live matters more than any other factor?in lowering your energy use. The sustainability of urban vs rural living is hotly debated.?While some peak oil writers, back-to-the-land?proponents?and “doomsday?peppers” advise moving to a rural community, the data shows that under our current system?the average city-dwelling household uses significantly less of energy of every type (electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, kerosene, LPG and wood) than suburban, rural or small town households. For example, people living in?Manhattan?have the lowest per-capital energy consumption?of any Americans.
• Live in an apartment building (ideally a LEED certified building) instead of a detached single-family home. Like the urban-vs-rural debate, this finding too is hotly contested, with opposition to “Agenda 21” efforts to force us into “stack and pack” housing – but the data clearly shows that because?most residential energy goes into space heating and cooling, multifamily buildings are more energy efficient because they share walls between units.
• Downsize your home – live in the smallest square footage you can tolerate – check out the “tiny house movement” for ideas on how to live?comfortably?in a smaller home.
• Live in a walkable neighborhood?where most of your daily errands can be?accomplished?by walking or biking – visit walkscore.com?to find a walkable neighborhood
• If you can live?car-free, do so – instead of owning a car, walk, bike and take public transit. When you need a car,?use car sharing services (Turo, Getaround), car rental services (Zipcar, Car2Go) and taxi services (Uber, Lyft,?Arcade?City). Living without a car eliminates the need for parking and makes it easier to live in a denser walkable neighborhood.
• Simplify your life – declutter your home – eliminate?possessions?– embrace?minimalism?– when you have less stuff, you can be?comfortable?in a smaller home which will make it more affordable to live in a more walkable urban neighborhood.

• Work from home if you can (telecommute)
• Walk to work?if you can’t work from home
• Bike to work if you can’t walk
• Take public transit to work if you can’t bike
• Carpool to work if you can’t take public transit (Use Casual Carpool if you’re in the Bay Area or Carma elsewhere – or just ask your coworkers)
• If you can’t live car-free, buy an?electric car?and charge it using rooftop solar?panels
• If you can’t afford an electric car, buy a plug-in hybrid or biodiesel car (don’t buy an E85 car – corn ethanol is net energy negative)
• If you can’t afford a plug-in hybrid or a biodiesel car, buy the most fuel-efficient car you can (like a regular hybrid) – look at fuelly.com and?fueleconomy.gov
• Hypermile your car – pump tires to maximum?recommended?PSI, remove weight from the car, remove aerodynamic drag from the car (roof racks, etc.), cruise at the optimum speed (~55 mph), shift up to the top gear as early as you can, drive in a way that you almost ever need to brake, draft on the highway
• Measure your fuel consumption –?If your car doesn’t have a fuel economy gauge, buy one – like?ScanGaugeE or Automatic – and start altering your behaviors to?maximize?fuel efficiency
• Don’t wash your car?– but if you do wash your car, don’t wash it yourself, take it to a “closed loop” car wash that recycles their water
• Bring your lunch in a reusable stainless steel food container

• Take local vacations (like to a nearby National Park) that you can drive to (ideally in your electric car) to instead of flying to far-away vacation destinations
• Travel by train instead of flying (trains are more energy?efficient?per passenger mile, but more importantly they can be?electrified?and run on renewable energy)
• Travel by sailboat?(uses almost no fuel at all)
• Travel by cargo?freighter?(http://wikitravel.org/en/Freighter_travel)
• Travel by ridesharing (virtual?hitchhiking) (Zimrides.com,?blablacar.com)
• Buy carbon offsets for your air travel –?terrapass.com

• Buy local food – join a CSA?and buy from your local farmers market
• Plant a food garden
  • Convert your lawn to an edible garden
  • Plant medicinal herbs
  • Plant?perennial?foods that don’t require annual replanting
  • Start a compost bin
  • Raise food animals like chickens or ducks
  • Become a beekeeper and build a beehive
  • Plant barley and hops and brew your own beer
  • Learn how to pickle?vegetables
• Buy food that is local (or?fair trade if it doesn’t grow locally) and organic
• Coffee
  • Buy coffee that is shade grown, fair trade and organic
  • Lug a mug –?Don’t buy coffee in disposable cups –?bring your own stainless steel coffee mug?(Klean Kanteen) if you’re traveling and use a ceramic mug if you’re not traveling
  • Avoid single-use coffee makers?(especially those that do not have?recyclable?pods – like?Keurig machines)
  • Drink your coffee black – it requires fewer inputs and it’s healthier
  • Replace your disposable paper filters with a reusable gold filter?(pays for itself in a few months)
  • Compost?your used coffee grounds (put them straight into your garden – citrus trees and berry bushes love acidic coffee grounds)
• Buy eggs that are cage free, free range, local and organic
• Buy milk that is hormone free (rBST/rBGH free), antibiotic free, local and organic
• Avoid high-fructose corn syrup
• Eat less meat – if you eat a typical American’s diet, you burn more fossil fuels walking than a vegetarian does driving a 35 MPG car (because natural gas and oil is used produce the fertilizer and pesticides needed to grow the grain to feed the animals, from the methane emissions from the animals?themselves, and from the deforestation needed to produce an ever increasing amount of meat each year)
  • Being a?vegetarian?is far more?sustainable, but if you’re going to eat meat purchase higher-quality locally-grown organic meat
  • Buy a whole animal – the best way to ensure its quality is to meet your meat?(so you can observe its living conditions) – purchase an entire animal directly from a farmer (known as a heard share), have it?butchered?and share it with friends
• Don’t buy overfished seafood – visit seafoodwatch.org for a list of what to avoid
• Eat more meals at home –?restaurant?meals may waste more food than home cooked meals
• Never buy bottled water – use reusable stainless steel water bottle?(Klean Kanteen) (avoid reusable plastic water bottles – they leach endocrine?disruptors)
• Cook using natural cookware (like cast iron) instead of Teflon-coated cookware
• Compost your food scraps
• Simplify your possessions – inventory all of your?possessions, decide what items you can do without and donate them
• For grilling,?sustainable?charcoal (like coconut shell charcoal) is better than of chemical-doped charcoal (like MatchLight charcoal), while propane is better than any charcoal, and a?solar ovens are better any of those

• Things renters can do
  • Take shorter showers – use a shower timer
  • Turn off the water while you’re brushing your teeth or shaving
  • If it’s yellow, let it mellow
• Things?homeowners?can do
  • Perform a water audit?on your home to find leaks and inefficiencies
  • Fix any leaks in your?faucets?and?shower heads
  • Install rain-catchment barrels to save the water that comes off your roof
  • Install drip irrigation?for your edible garden
  • Install?low-flow?shower heads?and sink?aerators
  • Install a hot water?recirculation?pump or a “ladybug” hot water stopper to avoid waste while waiting for the shower to heat up
  • Install a graywater recycling system
    • Start by installing a toilet-tank sink (like SinkPositive)
  • Install a double-flush toilet with two different flush volumes
  • Reduce “virtual water” consumption
    • Eat less meat
    • Read books on an e-reader instead of paperback
    • Buy a sodastream instead of buying bottled soda
  • Eliminate your grass lawn and replace it with xeriscaping?and/or an edible garden?(greatly reduces water usage and eliminates need for gasoline-powered mowers and trimmers and fossil-fuel based pesticides and herbicides)
  • Add mulch?to your garden to increase water retention

• Things renters can do
  • Electronics
    • Hook up electronics you use?intermittently?(like your TV or Stereo) to “smart” power strips that eliminates standby power – like the?Belkin Conserve
    • Adjust your computer settings so it powers down when not in use
    • Unplug all AC/DC power?adapters?when not in your (eg. unplug your cell phone charger when you’re done charging it!)
    • Buy energy efficient electronics (eg. compare the electricity usage of TVs before you buy a new one)
  • Lighting
    • Alway turn off the lights when you leave a room
    • Replace every incandescent light bulb in your house with?LED lightbulbs?(which are better than CFL bulbs) starting with the most used bulbs first
  • Refrigerator
    • Dust off the refrigerator coils to keep it running efficiently
    • Set refrigerator?temperature to 35°-38°F
    • Set freezer temperature to 0° F
    • Quickly get what you need, don’t leave the refrigerator door open for long
  • Dishwasher
    • Program it to run at off-peak hours?(usually midnight to 6am)
  • Washing Machine
    • Always run a full load of wash
    • Wash your clothes in cold water – 90% of the energy use of a washing machine comes from warming up water
      
    • Program it to run at off-peak hours?(usually midnight to 6am)
  • Clothes Dryer
    • Clean the lint trap on your dryer?(which will also lower the chance of fire
    • Program your dryer to run at off-peak hours?(usually midnight to 6am)
    • Hang your clothes to dry on a?clothesline?instead of using the dryer – 81% of the total energy use for household laundry goes to clothes dryers
      
  • Heating and Cooling
    • Reduce the area that needs to be heated or cooled in your home
      • Keep your closet doors closed (So they aren’t being heated and cooled)
      • Close doors and close air vents in any rooms you don’t use frequently (like a guest room)
    • Open a window to cool your home instead of running an air conditioner
    • Use fans to cool your home instead of running the air conditioner
    • Enter and exit quickly if your heater or air?conditioner?is running – don’t leave the front door open any long than you need to
• Things?homeowners?can do (in addition to all of the things renters can do)
  • Get a professional home energy audit?and implement their?recommendations
  • Lighting
    • Install smart switches?(motion sensor, timer or wifi enabled) to automatically turn off lights (and allow you to make sure all of your lights are off when you’re out of the house)
    • Install skylights or solar tubes to bring daylight in
    • Install a heliostat outside to reflect daylight into your home
  • Refrigerator
    • Make sure your refrigerator is in a cool, shaded place
    • Buy an energy efficient?refrigerator
  • Dishwasher
    • Buy an energy efficient dishwasher
  • Washing Machine
    • Buy an energy efficient washing machine
  • Clothes Dryer
    • Buy an energy efficient clothes dryer
  • Hot Water Heater
    • Turn down the heat on the hot water heater to 120?F
    • Turn the thermostat to “vacation mode” when you go on vacation
    • Replace your old hot water heater?with a super-efficient?electric heat pump hot water heater, like the GE GeoSpring heater (Gas hot water heaters uses 130 watts worth of natural gas continuously just for the pilot light! Electric hot water heaters also allow you to supply your own renewable?electrons?with rooftop solar.)
      • Even better – install a solar hot water heater (if your homeowner insurance allows you to)
      • If you have to use gas, use a super efficient one or a tankless hot water heater
  • Buy a smart thermostat – like the Nest Thermostat?– and optimize the settings to save energy
  • Replace the air filter on your HVAC system regularly
  • Optimize?heat transfer due to infiltratioFind air leaks using a blower door test and an infrared camera
    • Seal air leaks in your ducts, windows, doors and fireplace (if you don’t use your fireplace) using caulk, weather stripping and a?fireplace flue plug
    • In extreme climates, install double-door “airlock” entryway stop air exchange when you go in and out of the house
    • In locations that are hot during the day but cool at night, install a whole house fan?and install window screens?so you can quickly move outside air inside
  • Reduce heat transfer due to conduction
    • Improve the insulation of your walls and attic
    • Replace your windows with higher efficiency triple-glazed windows
    • Install insulating blinds?to further reduce window heat loss
  • Optimize heat transfer through radiation
    • I cold climates, maximize passive solar thermal gain by installing southward facing windows with high R-values (heat going out) and low U-values (heat coming in)
    • In locations that are cold in the winter and hot in the summer, install passive solar window awnings?that allow the sun to warm your house in the winter and block the sun in the summer
    • Strategically plant?deciduous?trees?on the south and west side of your house – in the summer they will shade your house from the hot sun and in the winter, when their leaves fall off, they will allow warming light into the house
    • In hot climates, install a white roof?and install a radiant barrier to reflect heat (these work better than an attic ventilator)
    • Make sure your attic is well?ventilated
  • Optimize heat transfer due to convection
    • Replace your?natural?gas or heating oil furnace with an electric air-source heat pump system (which can be powered by rooftop solar)
  • Replace your gas stove an oven with an electric stove and oven (which can be powered by rooftop solar)
• Renewable Power Generation
  • Once you have reduced your energy consumption as much as possible (by doing as many of the things above as possible), install solar photovolteic panels on your roof or install a micro wind turbine

• Only buy low VOC (volatile organic compound)?products – paint, etc.
• Test your home to make sure it is free of lead paint, asbestos and mold
• Avoid synthetic carpeting – install hardwood, natural?linoleum?or cork flooring instead
• Buy?sustainability-made “buy it for life” furniture –?Don’t buy cheap furniture made with plywood or pressed wood – it can off-gas?formaldehyde and can break easily
• Buy?sustainable?bedding?– using the same criteria as sustainable clothing – organic cotton,?sustainably made, etc.

• Design your product more?sustainably
  • Practice “cradle-to-cradle design” – design the product from 100% reused, recycled and/or natural materials and design it to be 100%?recyclable, upcycleable?or compostable
    • Reused materials – can you reuse existing materials instead of purchasing new materials? (eg. if you make cabinets, instead of buying new handles you could reuse handles from a salvage store like Urban Ore)
    • Recycled materials – for?components?that cant be made with reused materials, use 100% recycled materials that can be 100% recycled at their end-of-life, like aluminum
    • Natural materials –?for?components?that cant be made with reused or recycled materials, use natural, sustainably-produced materials that can be composted at the end of their life (eg. bamboo, bioplastics)
    • Choose materials that have no human health impacts (eg. no off-gassing of VOCs)
  • Design your products to last a lifetime – ?design them to be repairable and?upgradeable?instead of disposable (the?opposite?of planned?obsolescence)
• Manufacture?your product more?sustainably
  • Run your factory on renewable energy?(buy renewable energy credits if you can’t install renewable generation on site)
  • Design?your manufacturing process to minimize waste?and to recycle?all manufacturing waste
  • Buy raw materials from suppliers who focus on sustainability
• Deliver your product more sustainably
  • Design your product to be shipped with minimal or no packaging
  • Use sustainable packaging materials (biodegradable?– (no?Styrofoam, no plastic bubble wrap, no?Styrofoam?packaging peanuts)
  • Focus on online retail over bricks-and-mortar?stores (selling products online and shipping them to your customers house directly uses less far less energy than the customer driving a car to and from a store)
• Make your office more sustainable
  • Locate your offices?in a dense city where employees can get to work by walking, biking and public transportation
  • Allow employees to telecommute
  • Move to a LEED-certified office building (which has an extensive checklist?of sustainable practices like installing bike racks,?waterless urinals, etc.)
  • Get a professional energy audit and improve the energy efficiency of your office

• Avoid “Planned?Obsolescence” in products – Consult the “Buy it For Life”?Reddit before buying new things
• Avoid “Fast Fashion” brands (Zara, H&M, Gap) who make cheap clothes that wear out quickly
• Buy clothing from sustainable brands – Consult Project Just for a list of sustainable brands (Patagonia, Tom’s, etc.)
• Buy clothing made of sustainable materials – hemp, organic cotton, merino wool, etc. (avoid leather)
• Use?environmentally-friendly?clothing?detergent designed for cold water washing?(Method, Borax)
• Go to a Green Dry Cleaner?that uses?Supercritical CO2 instead of PERC (perchloroethylene)
• Turn old clothes into rags instead of using paper towels

• Stop buying non-recyclable?disposable razors – Use a?Double Edge Safety Razor or a Straight Razor and recycle the blades
• Shave with?sustainably-made solid soap and a brush?or use shaving oil instead of aerosol shaving cream
• Don’t shave in the shower – shave at the sink with a bowl (so you don’t run the water)
• Grow a beard instead of shaving

• Never buy bath products with plastic “microbeads“
• Deodorant?– use stick?deodorant?instead of aerosol
• Soap – buy natural soaps (Dr. Bronners, Tom’s, Meyer’s, etc)
• Shampoo – buy sustainable shampoo (O’Right Tea Tree Shampoo)
• Use Organic Cosmetics
• Use?Organic Sunscreen

• Buy?environmentally-friendly?cleaning products (Method, Borax)
• Avoid antibacterial soap – it leads to antimicrobial resistant “superbugs”
• Don’t use disposable cleaning products
• Use rags instead of paper towels
• Use an actual mop instead of a swiffer

• Reduce?your purchases of new products
  • Live a simpler life with fewer?possessions
    • Check our the following Reddits for inspiration:?Anticonsumption,?declutter,?lowimpactlifestyle,?minimalism,?simpleliving
• Reuse?and repair?products before buying new ones
  • Learn handyman skills and sowing skills to repair things around the house
  • Donate and buy clothes,?furniture?at consignment stores?(eg. goodwill, salvation army, value village)
  • Buy home materials at a salvage store?(Eg. Urban Ore, Omega Salvage,?East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse)
• Recycle?and?Compost?everything you can
  • Use industrial compost?if your city offers it
  • Create a compost pile in your garden for food scraps
• Buy products that use?less packaging
• Buy Local
  • If you can walk or bike to a store, buy locally
  • Pay with cash or local currencies (like Ithaca Hours or Bay Bucks) instead of a credit card – the extra “friction” required to pay with cash had been scientifically shown to reduce spending amounts by making people more mindful of their spending habits
• Buying Online
  • If you can’t walk or bike to buy a product, buy products online and have them shipped to your house (buying online and shipping products to your house uses less far less energy than driving a car to and from a store)
  • Pay with bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies if you can – using these non-inflationary currencies undermines our growth-dependent?fractional reserve currency system
• Go digital and paperless wherever possible – read books on a Kindle, get all your bills online, avoid printing things
• Buy from co-ops, worker-owned businesses and B-Corps?– support businesses that aren’t required to?maximize?profit above all else
• Log your chemicals. For one day, make a list of all the chemicals that are going in and on your body—toothpaste, soap, shampoo, laundry detergents, household cleaners…. Then start eliminating those that you can and replacing them with natural alternatives.
• Reduce Consumption of Plastics and Chemicals
  • Avoid the worst kinds of plastics: #3 plastic, PVC and Vinyl
    • Replace shower curtain with a glass door or an organic hemp shower curtain
    • Never buy vinyl toys for your kids – eg. vinyl beach balls
  • Shop with reusable canvas bags?(instead of using disposable plastic bags)
  • Buy food from the bulk bins (and put them in stainless steel food canisters) instead of buying food in disposable plastic packaging or?plastic-lined cans
  • Use a stainless steel water bottle (like a klean kanteen) (instead of plastic water bottles)
  • Drink coffee or tea instead of soda (to avoid plastic bottles and plastic-lined aluminum cans)
  • Drink coffee out of a ceramic mug or insulated stainless steel mug (like a klean kanteen) (instead of disposable plastic-lined and plastic-topped cups)
  • Buy local beer and fill up a growler (instead of buying beer in glass bottles or plastic-lined cans)
    • If you can’t fill up a growler, there is no clear?sustainability?winner between glass bottles and aluminum cans. Just buy local.
  • Eat meals with plates and silverware (instead of?disposable?containers and plastic silverware)
  • Bring your lunch to work (instead of buying lunch in disposable packaging)
  • Buy natural?mosquito?repellents?instead of DEET?repellents (a scientific study showed that?Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard worked just as well as DEET)

• Attempt to repair?it before you trash it – contact the manufacturer and see if they can repair it (many?sustainable?brands will repair or replace their products for free), learn how to repair things yourself
• Reuse your old items for other purposes – eg. an old t-shirt can become a cleaning rag
• Donate for reuse instead of throwing them away – use Goodwill, Salvation Army, Freecycle, Craigslist

• Take up a hobby that fulfills the other items on this checklist: eg. gardening
• Make your hobbies more?sustainable
  • Instead of boating with a powerboat, learn how to sail
  • Instead of fishing with a power boat, fish with a kayak
  • Instead of golfing a conventional course with a golf cart, walk a?sustainable?golf course?(one that uses native?species, doesn’t irrigate the course and doesn’t use fertilizers or pesticides – the way golf was originally played)
  • Instead of snowmobiling, go cross country skiing
  • Instead of offroading or ATVing, go hiking

• Eliminate Internet Ads
  • Install the AdBlock (adblockplus.org) and Disconnect (disconnect.me) plug-ins for your web browser on all of your computers (Free)
    • You can also use AdBlock to eliminate clutter on sites you?frequently?visit (eg. “recommended?stories” and social sharing bars”) by right-clicking on them and choosing “block this ad”
  • Buy AdTrap (getadtrap.com) to block ads on your mobile and streaming devices at home ($140.00 – no monthly fee)
  • Install adblockers on your mobile devices (Purify) or set them up to use an ad-blocking proxy (speedmeup.net)
• Eliminate TV Ads
  • Kill your TV – the easiest solution to avoiding television advertisement is to get rid of all of your TVs. The average American spends 2.8 hours per day watching TV. Use all that extra time to do something productive. Read a book instead.
    
  • Ditch?your cable/satellite?service (Save on average $1500 per year) – by replacing it with ad-blocked online streaming, you won’t see any ads ever again!
    • Buy a Roku ($95 – no monthly fee)
    • For movies and TV shows, sign up for Netflix ($8/month) and/or Hulu Plus ($8/month), Amazon Prime ($99/year)
    • Install Plex and run a plex server to watch your offline movies
    • For live sports:
      • Watch streams on a computer running ad-blocking software that is hooked up to your TV using an HDMI out
      • Check out the Cordcutters Reddit for the most up-to-date information on streaming sports
      • Use a VPN to avoid blackouts on streaming sports services – bonus: if you use an international VPN and there are still advertisements they’ll be in a different language so they won’t work on you!
      • Football: NFL Game Pass?($100/yr) and NFLstreams Reddit
      • Baseball: MLB.tv ($110/yr) –?MLBStreams Reddit
      • Basketball: NBA League Pass ($100/yr) and NBAstreams Reddit
      • Hockey: NHL Gamecenter ($170/yr)?and?NHLStreams Reddit
      • Soccer: MLSLive ($80/yr) and SoccerStreams Reddit
      • College Football: CFBStreams Reddit
      • College Basketball:?www.ncaa.com/march-madness??(free) and ncaaBBallStreams Reddit
      • Formula 1: BBC using a UK VPN and Reddit Formula1 Streaming Wiki
      • OtherSports:?WatchESPN.com
      • If you still can’t find the game you want, walk over to your neighborhood bar (which should be easy since you should live in a walkable?neighborhood?already!)
      • Email or write a letter to the sports leagues and tell them that you want to pay for an ad-free game stream
  • Don’t take taxis with TVs in them – take a lyft or uber instead so you aren’t exposed to all of the ads
• Eliminate Paper Ads
  • Block junk mail?– whenever you?receive?catalogs or junk mail, log on to?catalogchoice.org?and halt any future deliveries
  • Remove your information from consumer databases – follow the advice in the book “Hiding from the Internet” to make it harder for advertisers to target you
• Eliminate Radio Ads
  • Stop listening to live radio
    • Listen to music on paid streaming services (Google Play, Pandora, Spotify, etc.) or on satellite radio
    • Listen to podcasts or audio books instead of talk radio and manually skip commercials
    • Buy a Bluetooth kit for your car so you can listen to podcasts while driving

• Reduce TV time – TV viewing is shown in “bowling alone” to be one of the top reasons for reduced community involvement – start by making a rule of never turning on the TV unless you know what you want to watch and for how long – don’t be a channel-surfing TV “grazer”, be a specific-program “hunter” that only turns on the TV and watches exactly what they came to watch
• Live in a walkable neighborhood – as shown in “bowling alone,” living in auto-centric neighborhoods is a main cause of decreased civic engagement
• Meet your?neighbors?–?invite?them over for dinner or drinks
• Discuss?sustainability?with your family, friends, neighbors,?colleagues, etc. – start a transition streets?initiative on your block
  

• Get out of debt –? exponential?monetary growth through debt creation is the root cause of our sustainability problem – if you are a creditor instead of a debtor you can invest your money?sustainability
• Open a bank account at a sustainable community bank (like New Resource Bank)?and close your old bank account at the “too big to fail” bank
• Invest in?sustainably-run companies
• Start using non-debt-based cryptocurrencies for transactions – like Bitcoin and Dash (one of the anonymous cryptocurrencies I discuss in my book)
  • Buy some cryptocurrencies with each paycheck
  • Patronize establishments that accept bitcoins and local currencies –?work hard to spend cryptocurrencies before you spend fiat currency
  • Get to know the owners of shops in your neighborhood and?persuade?store owners to accept bitcoins and local currencies
• Use local currencies – Ithaca Hours, Bay Bucks,?BerkShares, etc
  • Work with local currency organizations to increase adoption and econometric transparency (putting out data on money supply, velocity, etc)

• Measure Your?Transportation
  • TripIt – Measure air travel
  • Automatic?– ?Measure car usage
  • Moves App – Measure walking, biking and public transit usage
• Measure Your Home Energy Use
  • Belkin Wemo Insight Switch – Measure energy usage of your big electricity hogs (TV, Computer, Refrigerator)
  • Nest Thermostat – Measure HVAC usage
  • Smart meter –?available?through your utility (like PG&E)
• Measure your home indoor air quality
  • Buy a home air quality monitor that can measure VOCs and Particulate Matter – Like Foobot

• Atul Gawande “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right“
• Chris Martenson “What Should I Do“
• Grist “Wake Up and Smell the Planet“
• Michelle Cottrell “Guide to the LEED AP Homes Exam“
• Chris Martenson & Adam Taggart “Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting“
• Benjamin Ross “Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism“
• Donald Shoup “The High Cost of Free Parking“
• Jeff Speck? “Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time“
• Robert D. Putnam “Bowling Alone“
• Michael Bazzell “Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online Information“
• Will Martin “Anonymous Cryptocurrencies: The rise of bitcoin alternatives that offer true anonymity“
• Beth Terry “100 Steps to a Plastic-Free Life“
• Greenwizards “The Green Wizards’ Collapse Checklist“
• John Michael Greer “Green Wizardry“
• Colin Beavan “No Impact Man“
• Federico Pistono – “Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK“
• Eric Sorensen – “Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet“
• Rob Hopkins – “The Transition Handbook“

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