I drink a cup (or more) of coffee every day. I'm now going to look for the shade-grown or rainforest alliance certification on the coffee I buy. I'm still unclear about where Stumptown stands on all of this... 

Every week when we get groceries, I write the use by, sell by, and freeze by dates on the refrigerator white board. This has helped us reduce food waste. 

"The United States receives 2,100 terawatt-hours of incident wave energy along its coastlines each year, and tapping just one quarter of this potential could produce as much energy as the entire U.S. hydropower system. Oregon and Washington have the strongest wave energy resource in the lower 48 states and could eventually generate several thousand megawatts of electricity using wave resources. Several sites in Washington’s Puget Sound with excellent tidal resources could be developed, potentially yielding several hundred megawatts of tidal power."

Out of the 10 building solutions identified, we do almost all of these! The list was building automation, green roofs, heat pumps, insulation, LED lighting, net-zero buildings, retrofitting, smart glass, smart thermostats, and solar hot water. 

We switched out our plastic vegetable bags for washable mesh ones- we found them in the fresh produce area at Fred Meyer.