Whenever possible, take the train, bus, streetcar, or subway. Demand drives infrastructure!

Encourage your employer to chip in on the cost of public transit for employees.

Public transit reduces fuel consumption, lowers emissions, improves air quality, and alleviates traffic congestion.

It also promotes social equity by providing affordable transportation options across income levels.

Public transit contributes to the development of vibrant, walkable communities and reduces the demand for parking spaces.

Invite a friend, neighbor, or colleague to share a ride to a mutual destination.

Encourage your employer or school to offer parking or other incentives for carpoolers. If they already do, spread the word. 

Carpooling reduces fuel consumption, lowers emissions, improves air quality, and alleviates traffic congestion.

If you have an e-bike, add baskets and use it for functional travel as well as recreation. 

Encourage your community to add bike lanes, sharrows, and other infrastructure that will help normalize bicycling as a form of transportation.

Electric bicycles promote physical and mental health by encouraging exercise, reducing sedentary behavior, and improving cardiovascular fitness.

Electric bicycles contribute to cleaner air quality, decreased traffic congestion, and quieter urban environments by reducing air and noise pollution from internal combustion engine vehicles.

Use a bicycle instead of a car for short trips.

Encourage your local government to install bike lanes, sharrows, and other bike-friendly infrastructure.

Bicycle infrastructure promotes physical and mental health by encouraging exercise, reducing sedentary behavior, and improving cardiovascular fitness.

Bicycle infrastructure contributes to cleaner air quality, decreased traffic congestion, and quieter urban environments by facilitating bicycling, which reduces air and noise pollution from internal combustion engine vehicles.

If possible, walk to your destination instead of driving. 

Let community leaders know how much you appreciate existing walking infrastructure, and encourage them to install more.

Reduced automobile traffic could result in improved air quality, reducing the incidence of respiratory illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and pneumonia.

Walking reduces stress and improves mental health.

Walking reduces risks for obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

If your company or parts of its supply chain use conventional refrigerants, encourage them to consider climate-friendly alternatives.

Avoid unnecessarily replacing appliances that use refrigerants. Recycle them properly when you do replace them.

If you’re buying a refrigerator for home or business, choose a high-efficiency option.

Recycle broken or obsolete units in a way that allows for refrigerant recovery.

Refrigerant management contributes to reduced risk of poor water quality resulting from reducing refrigerant pollutants in water sources.

Reducing emissions from refrigerant sources has the co-benefits of reducing risks of extreme climate events, reducing air pollution, and improving mental health.

Make sure your office, school system, place of worship, etc., recycle paper. 

Do recycling one better! Enroll in electronic options for bank statements, charitable solicitations, etc., to reduce paper-based mail.

By reducing demand for tree harvesting, paper recycling makes it possible to maintain more habitat and recreation land.

Recognize that everything you consume produces greenhouse gases. Reduce, reuse, and recycle whenever possible.

Encourage your workplace or campus and other venues you frequent to provide separate containers for recyclables.

Promote legislation of standardized recyclable packaging for all products.

Recycling reduces natural resource depletion, habitat destruction, and pollution from mining. 

If your company has operations in low- and middle-income countries, support the development of compost facilities there.

At home, use every bit of produce you can—then compost the bits you can't.

Composting reduces waste sent to landfills which is often incinerated and generates carbon emissions.

Reducing landfill waste can reduce air pollution and associated respiratory illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and pneumonia.

When used for gardening or farming, compost reduce the need of fertilizers and pesticides in soils and helps improve soil health and thereby increase agricultural yields.

Compost retains water, prevents erosion, reduces runoff, establishes vegetation, and improves downstream water quality by retaining pollutants like heavy metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, oil, grease, fuels, herbicides, and pesticides.