Sustainability at Home
This pages describes how individuals and families can do take action every day to create a sustainable future.
Practicing sustainability at home is aligning our day to day actions with choices that value healthy people and the planet, while fostering prosperity. There is no one right path in making these decisions, but rather finding the solutions that makes the best sense for your lifestyle. Here are some ideas and local resources to help get started. Simply click on the topic for more information.
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Think Zero Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost all apply here, but thinking Zero Waste also challenges us to Rethink our daily habits and purchasing options.
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Compost: A key element of zero waste is composting. Learn how to compost at home and other options that exist in the region for composting.
- Green Your Lawn: Put your new compost to work for you and have a chemical free lawn.
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Go Native: Forgo the lawn altogether and save water in the desert by landscaping with native plants.
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Clean Green: Non-toxic household products keep your indoor environment healthy while ensuring ingredients break down over time once they get into our environment.
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Buy Local: Support our local economy, environment, and the people who live here when you choose local businesses who subscribe to the triple bottom line.
Eat Local: Whether it was grown here, raised here, or made here, when we eat local we support our economy, our environment, and our own health.
Drive Less: Whether you walk to work, bike to the gym, carpool to social events or take the BAT or the CET to the mall, how you get around makes a big impact.
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Energize Your Home: Get a free energy audit to help assess what your home needs; from CFL light bulbs to better insulation to energy efficient appliances, there are many ways to improve how our house (and what you have in it) uses energy.
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Buy Renewable: Buy 100% renewable energy through Pacific Power's Blue Sky program or Central Electric's Green Power program. For the price of a 6 pack a cheap beer, this has the single highest impact to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Go Solar: From solar powered deck lights and phone chargers to hot water heaters and solar panels, there are options for every budget to harness the Central Oregon sun.
- Get Outside! Research shows that our connection to nature is important in sustaining our personal well-being, so make time for it.
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