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Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. Here are some easy and not so easy ways to reduce your impact on the environment.
1. Eat local, in season food. If your food has more than five ingredients (or ANYTHING with high fructose corn syrup) don't eat it. We shouldn't be eating grapes in winter.
2. REJECT, REDUSE, REUSE, REPAIR, RECYCLE. Reject: stop consuming so much darned stuff. How many shoes, tops, dishes, candles, etc. does a person NEED? Buy items that are made from recycled content and can be recycled. Reduce-buy items in the least amount of packaging. Bring your own bags to the store. Reuse-Old tee shirts are great for rags (and then you can rid yourself of paper towels!), what other items in your home can be reused once their initial purpose is gone? Repair-sew the button back on the shirt. Fix the frayed cord. Glue the wood back together. Don't be lazy. Recycle-this should be the last resort. Once the item can no longer be reused or repaired, recycle it. And for goodness sake, don't ever use a burn barrel!
3. Grow a garden. Even apartment dwellers can have a container of salad greens if they have some sunlight.
4. Walk for pete's sake! It's free exercise. You aren't releasing C02 from carbon fuels.
5. Bike. For those of you who live too far from shopping to walk, bike. It's the most efficient form of transportation. Period.
6. Live close to work.
7. Use public transportation. No sense in being a snob. You're no better than the folks who use it every day. Get over yourselves.
8. Compost. That food you dump in the garbage produces methane in the anaerobic environment of a landfill. NOTHING decomposes in the modern landfill. When it goes down the garbage disposal, it has to be treated at the wastewater treatment plant. Turn it into fertilizer with a backyard bin or VERMICOMPOST in your house and use the worm casings as houseplant fertilizer.
9. Turn off your TV and read a book. Preferably, one you've checked out from your local public library.
10. Go for a walk. In all seasons. Nature is wild and wonderful. Enjoy it. Let your feet touch the grass and get mud between your toes. Break a sweat-it's GOOD for you.
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4/22/08 7:01 PM
I have a 25 min. drive.