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Responsible Purchasing

Click here to watch a short video about environmentally and socially responsible purchasing. Whether an individual or a business, this site will help you get started in examining the consequences of your purchases.

Sierra Club Green Home
is dedicated to helping you create a more sustainable home environment. Click here.


Reduce Your Carbon Footprint!

What is a carbon footprint? It measures the impact your activities have on the environment in pounds of carbon dioxide. Calculate your carbon footprint here.

Here are 12 ways you can begin to reduce your carbon footprint ....

1. Change as many light bulbs as possible to compact fluorescents. Why?
2. Wash your laundry in cold water. Why?
3. Recycle all cardboard, paper, and plastic. How?
4. Don't buy bottled water. Why?
5. Eat less meat and eat only local, pasture-raised meat.Why?
6. Switch to your power company's renewable energy option. For IPL, click here.
7. Use a canvas bag when shopping. Why?
8. Read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, a book about eating locally.
9. Sign up for a Low Carbon Diet workshop. Click here for details.
10. Tell a friend about the Sustainable Indiana 2016 site.
11. Subscribe to Indiana Living Green Magazine.
12. Eliminate unwanted catalogs through Catalog Choice, a free service offered by the Ecology Center.




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