What You Can Do
How does one live a sustainable lifestyle and make sustainable choices? Here are some things you can do right now!
- Reduce Waste at Work
- Turn off Your Computer
- Know Your Shopping Bags!
- Recycle, recycle, recycle!
- Replace old, water-guzzling toilets
- Use energy-efficient light bulbs
- Plant a vegetable garden
- Turn off lights when you leave the room
- Water your lawn less frequently
- Compost your kitchen waste
- Unplug small appliances when you are not using them
- Learn to fix things instead of throwing them away
- Don't leave your car idling
- Plant a tree
- Support local cultural events
- Buy foods with less packaging
- Use your car less
- Shop locally
- Drive a fuel-efficient vehicle
- Ride your bicycle
- Take refundable bottles and cans to the Bottle Depot
- Volunteer for community events
- Make the choice to live comfortably but not wastefully
Can you think of more ways? Let us know! Contact Corporate Services at Town Office at 556-6981 or email admin@olds.ca with your ideas and ways that you are living a sustainable lifestyle!
Great Websites for more information
www.albertaecotrust.com
www.compost.org
www.davidsuzuki.org
www.recycle.ab.ca
www.climatechangecentral.com
www.earthday.ca
www.cleancalgary.org
Working on a Sustainable Olds
Here are just some of the ways we live a sustainable life in Olds!
| Cultural |
Communities in Bloom
Olds Fashioned Christmas
Hay City Trails System
Trees for Ever program
Uptowne Olds Committee |
| Environmental |
Recycling
Composting
Water conservation
Mulching
Paperless Council
Winter Lake (storm water retention)
Rain Barrel program |
| Governance |
Water Conservation bylaws for new construction
Toilet replacement program
Metered water use & meter replacement
Water use presentations in schools by Canada World Youth |
| Social |
Grass Bin painting program (CWY and high school students)
Pitch In program
Affordable Housing Task Force |
| Economic |
Olds Sportsplex Energy use reduction
Contracting services for waste collection |
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