Ten Things We All Can Do That Make a Difference

• Take public transportation, bike, walk, or carpool to work at least one day a week.
• Buy food, preferably organic food—vegetables, fruits, dairy, eggs, and meat--from a farmer’s market at least one day a week.
• Eat sustainably harvested seafood and farmed fish that is herbivorous, like catfish, tilapia, and shellfish. Avoid farmed carnivorous fish like salmon and shrimp.
• Install at least one compact fluorescent light bulb in your home—it will save roughly $40 in electricity and replacement bulb costs each year, and reduce carbon emissions by 700 lbs (about 318 kilograms).
• Turn off lights in empty rooms.
• Lower the thermostat by at least 1 degree F. (about 0.6 ° C.) in winter.
• Stop using herbicides and pesticides on your lawn.
• Learn the environmental positions of all those who represent you in government and support those candidates who have the best records and the best platforms.
• Tell everyone at home, school, place of worship, and work about what you are doing to conserve biodiversity and ask them to join you.
• Above all, do not waste—reduce your consumption, buy only what you really need, and re-use and re-cycle whatever and whenever you can.