Everyday Sustainability
Here are a few simple steps you can take in everyday life. This list is by no means exhaustive, and it will change - so send us your own ideas! For more information, click on the tabs to the left.
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Turn off the lights
When you leave the room. During the day, use natural light!
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Use the recycle bins whenever possible.
Waste Management provides CLU's single stream recycling services.
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Use reusable containers for snacks, water, and other drinks.
Bring your own lunch instead of driving off campus, or eat in the campus dining facilities.
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Turn off your air conditioning.
Or at least turn it down.
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Drink tap water!
Click here to learn about the beautiful, wonderful water in Thousand Oaks.
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Plant a garden.
Or a window box. Just grow something and then eat it.
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Take shorter showers
Do fuller loads of laundry.
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Bike, walk, and skateboard
Often as you can.
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Buy locally grown produce
Make it Fair Trade and/or organic whenever possible.
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Unplug
Chargers, coffee pots, and other items that draw phantom power.