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This week’s Quick Tip!
How do you garden for wildlife? In 5 easy steps.
1. Provide food sources with plants that provide nuts, berries, or nectar, or provide a feeder.
2. Provide water with a pond, birdbath, or shallow dish.
3. Provide cover with a hollow log, rock pile, dense shrubs, or roosting box.
4. Provide places to raise young such as a water garden, pond, or nesting box.
5. Practice sustainable gardening by mulching, composting, or reducing your lawn area.
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How Do I Go Green?
Have fun calculating your carbon footprint, shop for green and fair-trade products,
and learn about ways to help your environment -- all at the same time!
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- Donate your old phone to Cell Phones for Soldiers
- Dress for Success helps disadvantaged women around the world by giving them
clothes, shoes, and accessories for job interviews.
- Eco-Cycle works to build zero-waste communities.
- ExcessAccess matches donated household items with non-profits in need.
- Soles4Souls distributes your old shoes to needy people around the world.
- Nike Reuse-A-Shoe turns old sneakers into basketball courts and other playing surfaces.
- Get paid to recycle electronics at: My Bone Yard or
eBay EZ Tradein.
- Give electronic items away locally on the Freecycle.org list-serv.
- Your equipment can be matched to a non-profit in need through the National
Cristina Foundation.
- Charitable Recycling Program, lets you help charities with your recyclables.
- Make use of drop-off sites and recycling events by retailers (Best Buy,)
(Staples,)
and manufacturers (SONY.)
- Find drop-off locations for broken electronics
you cannot reuse, sell, or donate.
- Give books to schools, librarians, and orphanages around the world
- Habitat for Humanity accepts good-quality used construction materials.
- Learn about the harm that plastic water bottles do the the planet.
- Find out more about bottle deposit programs, including a proposed National Bottle Bill.
- Recycle items containing steel at the Steel Recycling Institute website.
- Monroe County Department of Environmental Services (DES)
- Waste Management – Fisher’s recycling partner
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