Sustainability is constantly appearing on your social media or anything you read. People are embracing it more and more, living an eco-friendlier life, eating plant-based food, learning about environmentalism. But what is really sustainability?

Want to live more sustainably but don’t have a backyard or solar panels? You don’t need them. In this guide, I share 10 easy, practical tips to reduce your environmental impact and create a greener, more eco-coanscious apartment—no matter your square footage.

You are probably familiar with the term ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’, the pillars of sustainability, but there are even more ‘R’s to live an eco-friendlier life. Sustainability tackles the problem of resources being finite, and therefore strives to analyze ways in which all forms of consumption are dealt with in the most conscious way possible. Find out what the Rs of Sustainability are!

If you just started your sustainability journey or are beginning to hear about zero-waste living, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed, but you don’t have to go zero-waste from one day to the other. These are my recommendations on how to take the first steps towards a zero-waste home and choose more sustainable products, always trying to strive for progress and not perfection.

These easy tips for being more sustainable can be useful for either the rookies who are just starting to be more sustainable, as well as for those who have been into sustainability for some time. From buying second-hand items, to transitioning to a plant-based diet, these tips will help you lead a more conscious life.

I know a lot of people who are trying to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle, and the first step they take to do so is accepting they can do better as living beings on this planet. However, before all of this comes the most important change you should make when you are starting to live more consciously, and it’s the base from which everything else unfolds: slowing down.