United States

Lay-Person Tasks

Go vegan! Going vegan would benefit: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food (Add this to every individual goal it relates to)

• reduce ag land use by 75%
• eliminate transportation costs for animal feed
• reduce the use of water by 30x+
• stop rainforest deforestation (currently used for animal feed / animal agriculture)
• eliminate methane emissions from food production, and decrease co2 manifold
• eliminate dramatically inefficient caloric conversion from animal feed to animal products 20-to-1

Informational Resources

• Environmental Solutions. https://www.tiktok.com/@sambentley

• Positive News about the environment: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegarbagequeen

• Environmental Reports Archive: Reports organized by year, some have more than others. Reports are on a lot of different topics. https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Reports/Archive

• Sustainability Wiki https://appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia Has great information on sustainability. The site was spammed by right-wing page editors years ago and not all pages/edits have been found, so you might run into hateful content. Some pages are lacking information.

• https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/plan/issues/environmental-justice Articles on environmental justice from a racial equity lens on the topics of: Climate change, water, history of environmental racism and justice, websites, activism, and tools.

• https://www.treehugger.com/ "Treehugger is the only modern sustainability site that offers advice, clarity, and inspiration for both the eco-savvy and the green living novice."

• This is an app to help you track your sustainability: https://www.theplasticproject.org/recyclescan

• OikoSol Repository: "Oikosol is a community project to create open-source, sustainable, decentralized technologies and blueprints. With a focus on water harvesting, food cultivation, waste and wastewater treatment, energy production, and transportation, the goal is to brainstorm and test technologies that allow individuals or families to become more self-sufficient in these categories, using local materials or re-using waste materials, and then producing easy to follow DIY instructions for anyone to use, adapt, edit, and share." https://github.com/OikoSol/

• Open Sustainable Technology

• This list is huge! 'A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources.'Keywords: Open source, software, online services: https://github.com/protontypes/open-sustainable-technology

Potential Organizations

• Sierra Club https://www.sierraclub.org/
• Green Peace https://www.greenpeace.org/global/