WWF is active around the world, saving wildlife, protecting habitats, and addressing global threats. But conservation begins at home, and each of us can make a difference. Below you will find printable wallet cards to assist you in making environmentally conscious consumer decisions and green choices in your daily life. WWF has also created a list of actions you and your family can take to reduce your consumption and use of toxic chemicals at home and in your community. Together with WWF, you can be a force for nature.

Wallet Cards Download and print all cards from one PDF file (PDF, 512k) * For best results, print on letter-sized paper in portrait format.

Easy Ways to Help

WWF Forest Conservation - Protect, Manage, and Restore
As a consumer of forest-based products you have the power to help conserve the world's forests.

• Look for wood and paper products displaying the FSC label. The Forest Stewardship Council label assures that your products are made from wood harvested to rigorous environmental standards. Look for paper products labeled as having high post-consumer recycled content.
• Reduce your consumption. Use ceramic or recycled plastic instead of paper cups and plates, and washable fabric instead of paper tissues, towels, or napkins.
• Recycle. Paper alone accounts for roughly 40% of all municipal solid waste in the United States. Recycling saves trees, water, and electricity.

Help protect our forests!

WWF's Fish "Yes" List
This list will help you make smart decisions when ordering seafood.

1. Halibut - Alaska/Canada
2. Striped Bass - Atlantic
3. Squid - Pacific "market"
4. Albacore - Pacific
5. Mahi-mahi
6. Rock Lobster - West Australian
7. Spot Prawn- West Coast U.S.
8. Dungeness crab
9. Caviar - farmed U.S.
10. Salmon - wild Alaskan

WWF Buyer Beware Card
In your travels around the corner or around the globe, use this card to help you avoid products that threaten endangered wildlife. You can also learn more about this by visiting WWF's Buyer Beware Web site and take a tour of our virtual pharmacy and gift shop to learn more about what not to bring home when traveling.

• Jewelry & figurines made from sea turtle shells, elephant ivory, or coral
• Traditional Asian medicines containing rhino, tiger, leopard, bear, or musk
• Skins or furs from spotted cats, marine mammals such as seals or polar bears, certain crocodilians, snakes, etc.
• Wild-collected orchids, cacti, cycads, and other plants

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Help at Home

World Wildlife Fund's Green Home Card
Useful and easy-to-follow tips on how to keep your home energy efficient and toxic-free.

1. Where possible, choose an electric utility company that uses clean renewable energy resources instead of dirty fossil fuels.
2. Make your next car one that gets at least 32 miles per gallon.
3. Replace worn-out home appliances with energy efficient models.
4. Make small home improvements: use energy-efficient fluorescent lights, weatherproof your house, plant native shade trees, clean vents and radiators, install low-flow showerheads.
5. Whenever possible, walk, bike, carpool, or use mass transit.
6. Adjust your thermostat by turning it down 3 degrees in winter.
7. Recycle aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic, cardboard, paper, and newspaper.
8. Keep your car in shape with regular tune-ups, oil changes, and proper tire inflation.
9. Buy products that are made locally-cargo ships, airplanes, and trucks burn lots of fossil fuels to transport goods.
10. Wash laundry in cold or warm water instead of hot.

Making your life toxic-free
Reduce your consumption and use of toxic chemicals at home and in your community.

1. Buy organic cotton clothing, fruits and vegetables, and other goods.
2. Stop using pesticides. Green up your yard using natural methods:
   • Grow plants that are native to the region where you live.
   • Use traps and biological controls such as natural predators.
   • Use disease- and pest-resistant plants. In your garden, add insect-repelling plants such as basil, chives, mint, marigolds, and chrysanthemums.
   • Use compost and mulch to improve soil health and reduce the need for pesticides and fertilizers.
3. Use environmentally friendly products in your home:
   • Reduce use of chlorine bleach.
   • Use simple and inexpensive cleansers such as soap, vinegar, lemon juice, and borax (see Household Recipes below).
4. Avoid air fresheners and perfumed products. Freshen your air by opening windows, using baking soda, cedar blocks, or dried flowers.
5. Reduce use of plastic containers and food wrappings:
   • Store food in glass containers.
   • Do not microwave food in plastic.
6. Urge your schools and communities to use non toxic cleaning products and to stop using pesticides.

WWF's toxic chemical program

Use these easy household recipes to help make your home toxic-free.

All-purpose Cleaner
Choose one and add to 1 gallon of water:

3 tsp. liquid soap, or

1/4 cup white vinegar, or

1/4 cup lemon juice, or

1/4 cup borax

Stain Remover
Soak fabrics in 1 gallon of water with one of the following:

1 cup white vinegar, or

1 cup lemon juice, or

1 cup borax

Controlling Cockroaches and Ants
Combine equal parts powdered sugar and borax. Sprinkle where they crawl.

Window Cleaner
Fill your own spray bottle with 1/2 cup white vinegar to 1 gallon warm water.

WWF empowers young people through new Web site
WWF, along with the Center for a New American Dream, has launched the ibuydifferent.org Web site as part of a national campaign to help young people make a difference by buying with the environment in mind.

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