Co-ops have green roots

Because co-ops provide affordable homes and members work together to keep it affordable, you live in a co-op, you have already taken a step closer to a sustainable lifestyle and take a load off the planet.  And because your co-op and co-op members do use water, energy, building materials, food, transportation and many other things that depend on natural or human-made resources.This means you have a powerful opportunity to make change by altering decisions you make in your everyday activity.

You can help change the headlines about
climate change

By making small informed and simple changes, we can all do more to lessen our impact. For example, when you need to paint a room, choose non-toxic and eco-certified materials. By maybe spending a little more, you get rid of potential health risks, you support an emerging industry that values social and ecological factors not just economic ones and you lower the costs to the environment and future generations. And there are other changes that will help you save money too. Right now – today – your co-op and co-op members can make choices that will help your co-op become more sustainable. And your choices can help change the headlines and stories you read and hear about every day: about climate change, concerns around water supply, even rising rates of homelessness in our cities.