Tip Seven Use organic materials or trade out costumes! Rent your Halloween costumes from theatrical or costume stores, instead of buying them. Halloween only comes once a year, but last year, American…
Local and Global Eco-friendly Sustainability Tips for Nantucket
Small Steps: Interior Garden
Tip Six Grow food in your kitchen. During the month of October on Nantucket, many locals have our "honey-do List" and venture outside to prepare potted plants and gardens for winter. Why not bring som…
Small Steps: Tip Five
Tip Five Remove standing water from the areas around your home. The fall on Nantucket is one of the best times of the year, but your birdbaths are most likely not being used as much by our feathered f…
Small Steps: Tip Four
Tip Four Reduce Unwanted and Junk Mail. Mail CatalogChoice.org is free and lets you set preferences one catalog at a time. The Association of National Advertisers runs DMAChoice.org, which lets you re…
Small Steps: Tip Three
Tip Three Place the posters that are free to download in our resources section in your recycling bin areas. These are a good reminder to keep trash in its place.…
Small Steps: Tip Two
Tip Two Metal straws are so very fashionable these days over plastic! They are nice to look at, you can take them with wherever you go, think of them as a toothbrush, as they are easy to keep clean.…
Small Steps: Tip One
Tip One Wash your ziplock bags instead of throwing them out after one use. As long as you are not storing raw meat or food that has gone off, wash the ziplock bag with hot water and soap, rinse well,…