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What on Earth can I do?
Some ideas for a sustainable lifestyle:

• Read a letter mentioning the ten most important issues for our Environment that these items below reinforce Click Here
• Recycle / Reuse / Repair
• Take your  litter home with you
• Learn to compost
• Go organic
• Try vermi(worm)-composting
• Protect your soil - mulch
• Don't treat your soil like dirt
• Save our soil
• Get into permaculture
• Walk to work or wherever
• Ride a bike
• Catch a bus - train - ferry
• Buy a smaller car
• Get into a car pool
• Plant a tree or shrub
• Get gardening - join the gardening fraternity
• Protect native plants and animals
• Eliminate pest species
• Protect a habitat - make a contribution
• Never waste water
• Install a water butt
• Don't put stormwater into the sewer
• Guard against back-flow
• Reuse 'grey water'
• Get rid of your incinerator - help keep the air clean
• Convert your incinerator to composting
• Don't dump hazardous wastes into the water, air or soil
• Insulate your house to save on energy
• Get into renewable energy
• Plant some shelter - save on energy
• Use clean-burning fuels
• Install a solar water heater
• Design your house passive-solar and collect free energy every day
• Join an environmental group - support and activity
• Take an environmental course - increase understanding
• Take an enviro-holiday
• Read an environmentally enlightening publication
• Conserve resources
• Prevent pollution
• Reduce consumption
• Think "Sustainability"

On behalf of the City's Environment THANK YOU
For your efforts
They don't go unnoticed