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Planet-Saving Steps

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Planet-Saving Steps is a great resource for quick, easy steps we can take to help the planet. Look here for green tips, action items, community science projects you can contribute to, and much more.

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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This would worsen climate change, endanger drinking water sources, and damage vital wildlife habitat. Destroying old growth forest will greatly increase the risk of wildfires, threatening communities. We have only days to comment. This link makes it quick and easy: action.nrdc.org/letter/4294-...
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
No matter which search engine or email client you use, leaving off the AI features will cut down the carbon footprint of your searches. #saveenergy #savewater #costofai
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You can also turn off the AI feature in your email client that summarizes the content of your emails. For instance in Yahoo, click on the three dots under your folder list, go to Settings, then AI features. You can switch it off there.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You can type -ai in lower case letters, too. This will bring up search results that don’t include an AI-generated answer and works in most search engines, including Google. If you use the awesome DuckDuckGo browser, you can completely turn off AI under Settings > AI Features.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
For example, a simple internet search will usually produce an AI answer we didn't ask for, and usually with inaccurate results. But there is a very easy way to avoid this. Simply type -AI after your search words. For example, type: Where is the best place to camp near Carlsbad Caverns? -AI
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Perhaps you intentionally use AI to write essays, ask questions, or create art. But many times we're using it when we don't even intend to, and this consumes vital water and energy and is damaging to the environment.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Are you struggling to communicate the importance and urgency of needed climate action to your community, family, or friends? This book provides fantastic ways to find common, relatable ground to reach even people who have different values than you. It's uplifting and hopeful, and a joy to read.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Researchers need help to restore the Back Bay of Biloxi, MS. Help from your own home by identifying birds on remote cameras. Spend as much or little time as you have available! www.zooniverse.org/projects/les... #backbay #biloxims #shorelines #communityscience #habitatrestoration #wildbirds
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Want to help researchers better understand the distribution of periodic cicadas? Just go to this link to learn more and to download the free Cicada Safari app and go out and explore. Take photos of adult cicadas and send in your data: scistarter.org/cicada-safari #cicadas #communityscience
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In this engaging book, psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes identifies the five main psychological barriers to climate action and the strategies for how to address these in a way that creates hope, action, and solutions, not further despair.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to your representative, urging them to vote no on this disastrous bill. tinyurl.com/mvhhjb5c #protecttheenvironment #endangeredspecies #stopfossilfuels #belugas #polarbears
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Stop the Sell Out of Public Lands and Wildlife
The all-out assault on wildlife, public lands and the environment continues, this time in the form of the budget bill making its way through Congress. Urge your representative to oppose any bill that ...
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The bill also will sell off our beloved public lands to private ownership, including more than 500,000 acres in the West, which would allow developers to pollute and damage these lands and remove them from our beloved places to visit, camp, hike, and experience.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Furthermore, oil and gas companies would be able to pay the federal government to waive environmental regulations that are in place to protect clean air, drinking water, endangered species, and the environment.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It opens four million acres for new coal leasing, opens damaging mining projects in pristine habitats, and calls for 25% more timber production, targeting trees which will not only destroy habitat, but these trees are vital sources of carbon sequestration to fight climate change.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The current House reconciliation proposal includes huge giveaways to the fossil fuel industry that will endanger our health, environment, and endangered species. Rice’s whales, belugas, polar bears, and many more endangered species will be put in far more dangerous risk than they already are.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Spring is an important growing time for many species, including pollinators and other wildlife. Allowing your yard to grow for longer lets flowers bloom, providing vital nectar and pollen for bees and butterflies and cover for fireflies. #rewilding #yardrewilding #helppollinators #nomowmay
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to urge J.P. Morgan not to back this disastrous move to sacrifice this refuge for fossil fuel profits. tinyurl.com/7a244f9a #gulfofcalifornia #marinesanctuary #protectmarinespecies #vaquita #vaquitaporpoise #saveseaturtles #savethewhales
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Mix only a small batch at a time so mold does not collect in the feeder. Be sure to wash out your feeder with soap and hot water between each refill. Refer to Audubon Society page: www.audubon.org/news/how-mak... #hummingbirds #hummingbirdnectar #wildbirds #feedinghummingbirds #hummingbirdfeeders
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How to Make Hummingbird Nectar
In a few easy steps, you can bring these nectar-loving birds to your feeder.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Recipe for hummingbird nectar: • 1/4 cup refined white sugar • 1 cup boiling water Mix sugar and boiling water until sugar is dissolved.  Cool completely before filling your feeder.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Hummingbirds can fall fatally ill from improper sweeteners. Please use *only* white refined sugar mixed with water that has been purified by boiling. Never use honey, as that promotes dangerous fungal growth. Red food coloring is not necessary and can be harmful. See recipe below:
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Please go to this link to learn more about the Shark Spy program! www.zooniverse.org/projects/sha... #sharks #communityscience #marinelife #citizenscience
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Use this link to send a quick and easy message to urge your senators to stand up for our national forests: action.wildearthguardians.org/page/81513/a... #carbonsequestration #fightclimatechange #saveourforests
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
You can make your own bug hotel by gathering up sticks and small pieces of wood and placing them inside a small enclosure. Pre-made bug hotels are available in stores, too! #bughotel #pollinators #insectconservation
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Please use this link to send a quick message to the new EPA administrator, urging him to keep vital environmental health safeguards in place: tinyurl.com/36j25j3t #cleanwater #cleanair #environmentalprotectionagency #publichealth
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Build a pollinator watering station! You can use colorful glass beads or little pebbles and then delight in the pollinators that come to visit and drink. #pollinators #pollinatorwateringstation #waterforwildlife #pollinatorgarden
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to urge the EPA to require industrial animal agriculture to adhere to the Clean Water Act: tinyurl.com/58wa455z #waterpollution #factoryfarms #environmentalprotectionagency #cleanwateract #cleanwaters
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Tell the EPA to Regulate Factory Farms
Although the EPA acknowledges that factory farms are a leading source of water pollution, it allows most of them to operate without a Clean Water Act permit. Urge the EPA to protect safe and clean wat...
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Factory farms, where animals are raised on an industrial scale, are a huge source of water pollution, and the EPA does not require them to hold a Clean Water Act permit to operate. Heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics, and other contaminants end up in our rivers, wetlands, groundwater, and lakes.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It's quick and easy to get started, and you get to be outside, breathing in fresh air, and gazing at clouds! To learn more, go to this link: observer.globe.gov/do-globe-obs... #clouds #nasa #cloudwatcher #cloudscape #communityscience
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Xerces Society has a handy guide for judging if it's still too early to start yard cleanup and if you should wait a bit to protect pollinators: xerces.org/blog/dont-sp... #pollinators #gardenwork #rewilding #protectpollinators #insectconservation #yardcleanup
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to the US Fish & Wildlife Service to finalize protections for monarchs before it's too late: tinyurl.com/57ae86km #monarchbutterfly #pollinators #invertebrateconservation
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Help Monarch Protection Take Flight
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finally proposed protecting monarch butterflies as a threatened species. Tell the Service to promptly finalize strong protections for these winged wonders and th...
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The western monarch population has plummeted, losing 95% of its population. Eastern monarchs are also suffering, with the latest studies showing their second smallest population size. For a decade, non-profits have been fighting to get the monarch protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Pollinators are vital components of our ecosystems, and 75% of our crops rely on insect pollination. But right now due to habitat loss and pesticide overuse, the world is experiencing an insect apocalypse, with insect abundance dropping by almost 50%, and 27% of species have gone extinct. #monarchs
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Bamboo and recycled TP can be a little more expensive than TP harvested from virgin, old growth forests. But in our warming, habitat-fragmented world, preserving forests that provide habitat and valuable carbon sequestration is definitely worth the extra buck.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Another green option is TP made of bamboo, which can grow 3 feet a day and takes only 3 years to reach a state where it can be reharvested. It is also a valuable source for carbon sequestration. #bamboo
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In addition to supporting a reuse/recycle program, the manufacturing of TP from recycled paper also uses 28-70% less energy and up to 25% less water than virgin toilet paper. #recyclereuse #deforestation #toiletpaper #oldgrowthforest
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Much TP made from virgin forests comes from Canada's boreal forest, home to vital habitat, imperiled wildlife, and old growth trees. It takes, on average, more than 50 years for trees to regrow to the age where they can be reharvested.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Recycled toilet paper keeps additional trees from being cut down and makes use of office paper and newspaper that would otherwise end up in landfills. In fact, if every household in America substituted a single 4-pack of virgin forest TP for recycled TP, it would save over 740,000 trees!
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Please use this link to send a quick and easy message urging the US Fish & Wildlife Service to properly protect these vital wetlands before species decline even further: tinyurl.com/yckhek4b #wetlands #northernbogturtle #floridapanther #Suwanneealligatorsnappingturtle #SantaCruzlongtoedsalamander
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Help Vanishing Wetlands and Their Wildlife
Marshes, swamps, and other wetlands in the U.S. are disappearing — and much of what remains isn't federally protected. Imperiled wildlife like birds, fish, and trees need healthy wetlands to survive. ...
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
On top of that, though the Endangered Species Act requires it, many endangered and threatened species such as the Florida panther, northern bog turtles, and more have not had critical wetland habitat designated for them.
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Wetlands are imperiled all over the U.S., and a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court stripped wetlands of fifty years of federal protection, leaving them vulnerable to destructive undertakings. tinyurl.com/yckhek4b
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#palmoil #sustainable #orangutan #tigers #sustainablefood
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
To produce palm oil, millions of acres are clearcut each year in Borneo, Sumatra, Africa, and Latin America, causing species like the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, and many more to go into a dangerous decline. This app allows you to find sustainable palm oil: www.cmzoo.org/conservation...
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Want to visit a local stream, steep in nature, and add data to a vital study? Just snap a pic of a stream and answer a few quick questions. It only takes a few minutes. Just visit this site to get started: StreamSelfie.org #streams #streamhealth #waterpollution #cleanwater #communityscience
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#balloonrelease #plasticpollution #reduceplastic #environmentalawareness #marinelife
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you'd like to help researchers and have fun looking at owls, please visit this link: www.zooniverse.org/projects/san... #burrowingowls #owls #birdconservation #communityscience #citizenscience #wildlifeproject
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Help scientists monitor light pollution! globeatnight.org #lightpollution #nightskies #preservenightskies #starrynights #starryskies
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thank you!
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Pollinators need our help, and planting pollinator-friendly flowers is a great way to create some habitat for them. Even a small space is helpful! See this helpful directory for native plants and seeds: xerces.org/pollinator-c... #nativeplants #pollinatorplants #waterwise #waterwisegardening
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Planet-Saving Steps @planetsavingsteps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Send a quick and easy message to urge the US Fish & Wildlife Service to protect Northern Rockies wolves under the Endangered Species Act! Here is the link: tinyurl.com/2f2yf2vm #wolves #endangeredspeciesact #northernrockieswolves #graywolves #wolfconservation
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