Go Green & Save the Planet
Have you been wanting to go-green, but have been put-off by the perceived difficulty of the endeavor? Do you think an environmentally friendly lifestyle is like returning to a "little house on the prairie" with no air conditioning, no automobiles, no TV or computers? While it's true that you can go green and make those kinds of sacrifice, you don't have to. Most green living or sustainable living ideas have been around for eons, so they're not new, nor hard to implement. Fortunately, for most consumers, going green is probably easier than you imagine and can actually reduce your monthly expenses while improving your lifestyle. The first way to begin the green journey is to ask yourself; where did a product come from and what happens when I get rid of it?
A sustainable lifestyle is a "reality-based" decision system. What does that mean? It means that you are aware of where things come from and how they were made. It's not always easy to find this reality, many people try to hide it from you, because they are aware that if you know the destruction it took to get the product to you, you wouldn't buy it. If you are buying meat from cows grown on rain forest land that was ripped up for hardwoods and polluted the water, destabilized the soil and destroyed habitat for thousands of animals and indigenous people, is that really worth it being priced at $.25 a pound less? Well, that's reality. In the internet age there are hundred of resources that can help you on your reality based journey that will make you a green warrior, armed with facts and the power to not buy.
Making the environmentally friendly choices doesn't have to limit you any any way. You just adjust your thinking about the production, use and ultimate destruction of the products you buy. Buy a great car, but try to coax an extra mile or two per gallon out of it. Make sure your doors and windows are sealed to keep in the heat or air-conditioning. Buy locally grown produce if possible and think about how pesticides and herbicides aren't good for living things, including you and your family. Can something be recycled and not just thrown away? Most communities have a recycling program of some sort, use it. Living sustainably is not hard, it's just living with awareness of the impact of your choices.
We all know that the Earth has limited natural resources and people have sped up our usage of those resources for years. Billions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America are aspiring to live better lives with more creature comforts. They have a right to live in the same manner as people in "first world" countries. Sustainable, reality based living requires us to acknowledge this fact and to recognize that each of us has a pollution footprint. This means that we don't become a bigger part of the problem. Instead we protect our watershed, we reduce our personal use of petro-chemicals, we don't dump toxins in our streams, we use a low flow showerhead, and if possible buy electricity from "green" sources. This short list of easy ways to protect resources was easy to develop and I am sure that with 15 minutes of thought and discussion you can come up with dozens of ways to reduce your footprint and not change yor comfort style one bit. Just be a responsible citizen of your community, and the world, and you will be helping and that's what we all need to do.
So what's next in your quest for sustainable living? Education. Start going to blogs and forums. Read newspapers and articles. Keep learning and thinking about how you can do your part. If every month you can add one little thing you do that promotes sustainability, you will make a huge difference in our world. Thanks for caring
A sustainable lifestyle is a "reality-based" decision system. What does that mean? It means that you are aware of where things come from and how they were made. It's not always easy to find this reality, many people try to hide it from you, because they are aware that if you know the destruction it took to get the product to you, you wouldn't buy it. If you are buying meat from cows grown on rain forest land that was ripped up for hardwoods and polluted the water, destabilized the soil and destroyed habitat for thousands of animals and indigenous people, is that really worth it being priced at $.25 a pound less? Well, that's reality. In the internet age there are hundred of resources that can help you on your reality based journey that will make you a green warrior, armed with facts and the power to not buy.
Making the environmentally friendly choices doesn't have to limit you any any way. You just adjust your thinking about the production, use and ultimate destruction of the products you buy. Buy a great car, but try to coax an extra mile or two per gallon out of it. Make sure your doors and windows are sealed to keep in the heat or air-conditioning. Buy locally grown produce if possible and think about how pesticides and herbicides aren't good for living things, including you and your family. Can something be recycled and not just thrown away? Most communities have a recycling program of some sort, use it. Living sustainably is not hard, it's just living with awareness of the impact of your choices.
We all know that the Earth has limited natural resources and people have sped up our usage of those resources for years. Billions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America are aspiring to live better lives with more creature comforts. They have a right to live in the same manner as people in "first world" countries. Sustainable, reality based living requires us to acknowledge this fact and to recognize that each of us has a pollution footprint. This means that we don't become a bigger part of the problem. Instead we protect our watershed, we reduce our personal use of petro-chemicals, we don't dump toxins in our streams, we use a low flow showerhead, and if possible buy electricity from "green" sources. This short list of easy ways to protect resources was easy to develop and I am sure that with 15 minutes of thought and discussion you can come up with dozens of ways to reduce your footprint and not change yor comfort style one bit. Just be a responsible citizen of your community, and the world, and you will be helping and that's what we all need to do.
So what's next in your quest for sustainable living? Education. Start going to blogs and forums. Read newspapers and articles. Keep learning and thinking about how you can do your part. If every month you can add one little thing you do that promotes sustainability, you will make a huge difference in our world. Thanks for caring
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