Participating in Meatless Mondays is the perfect way to show a little appreciation to Mother Earth that all college students are capable of doing! According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the meat industry alone accounts for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. So, by even choosing one day a week to eat no meat would greatly help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy usage that goes into maintaining livestock, and more dependencies needed to produce grain for livestock.

Learning how to recycle properly! An underrated yet complex concept that can have a great impact on acquiring a better relationship with Mother Earth. By diverting your waste from ending up in landfills, it will help decrease your carbon footprint and helo mitigate climate change.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle your CLOTHING! Not only is fast fashion detrimental to our environment, now-a-days there are so many alternatives to buying new clothing items, such as thrift stores not only those close to us but also on our very own cell phones! There are multiple clothes-selling apps, such as DePop and Poshmark, where you can find exactly what you are looking for.

Reusing your clothing items that you do not wear all day and do not sweat in is an easy thing to do, wear an item 2-3 times before you wash it to help prevent water waste and doing multiple loads of laundry weekly.

Choosing to receive monthly bills electronically, rather than printed and mailed every bill, every month. This will prove to be an easy task as most companies now offer an electronic version of most items. The ease and convenience of paying bills online is a win-win situation!

Reusable coffee cups! Bring them with you everywhere, there is no need for disposable one-use coffee cups to be used especially when most places offer discounts when you bring in your own reusable mug/cup.

Compost! Compost! Such an accessible and important change that Boulder provides by requiring compost. Learning the proper way to compost can have drastic changes to how much we discard into landfills, and can help rejuvenate crops and nutrient-deprived lands. Compostable materials happen to make up a large percentage of waste in landfills which later decompose and produce copious amounts of methane gas which is a huge contributor to climate change.