- Encourage that my family get most of our produce from a CSA
- Before buying a new item of clothing or jewelry, wait a month to decide if I actually want it. If the answer is yes, see what I could do to make it myself, and if that's not possible search for it on Depop or at Goodwill. If it cannot be found or made in these ways, consider looking for the item in local, sustainable businesses.
- Commit to starting a compost bin with my dad.
- Make bread with a sourdough starter and hopefully get a kombucha SCOBY.
- Commit to relying on more plant-based proteins like legumes.
- If anything is a within a 1.5 mile radius, I will not drive. Also, I'm committed to buying a bike chain so that I can bike around my neighborhood to specific locations without having to worry about my bike being stolen.
- Find creative ways of reusing single-use plastics to lessen the amount of waste I produce.
- Use mainly glass containers to store food to avoid microplastics.
- Before buying new supplies for my art, go to Turnip Green Creative Reuse to see if they have what I'm looking for.
- As I begin driving, when I am going to the same place as someone, carpool!
A punch list can be for an individual, family, community, company, or city. It is the list of the actions you or a group will undertake and accomplish over a predetermined span of time—one month, one year, five years, or more. You can make different lists for different time periods—this week and this year for example.