Reduce Your Footprint: Moderate Challenge
| Change how you get to work: walk or bike |
| Moderately challenging steps |
| Hang dry your laundry |
| refuse Shopping bags: Bring your own re-usable cloth bags |
| Use cloth diapers some might move this into the radical measures section |
| Compost your grass clippings |
| Use old cotton for hankies Cut up your old cloth diapers, T-shirts, thin towels, and turn them into hankies. No need to do a lot of stitching around the edges, the frayed look is in! |
| Shop local & Buy local products Ever considered the fossil fuels that are being spent to bring you mangos from the Congo? (I don't know where they come from actually!), lettuce from California? Apples from New Zealand? It's lovely that we can support the international market, but we are killing our air quality to do it! Buy local, stay in town to shop, save the fossil fuels that are spent when driving hours to another centre. Buy local products, keep our own industries thriving that bring us produce that is less taxing for the Earth. |
| The "Diva" cup for women I won't go into detail here. Contact me, or visit a health food store for more information. This little cup is absolutely a the answer to a lifetime of buying dioxin-bleached feminine products!! |
| Don't flush your toilet so often! The common household toilet is the biggest user of water in the whole house, according to statistics. My father always quoted a little saying, that as a teenager I found embarrassing, but as an environmentalist, I now find useful: "If it's yellow, let it mellow, If it's brown, flush 'er down!" |
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Unplug your
small
appliances:
Ever considered the energy it
takes to keep all the little digital
clocks running on your stove,
microwave, coffee pot, VCR? Or
for the instant-on from the T.V.?
Consider unplugging them until
you need them. (One drawback
was the coffee pot and the stove,
when I need to set the timer - for
the hot coffee ready when I wake
in the morning, I had to keep
resetting the time. But it is still
far from "radical measures" for
that small inconvenience!!
small
appliances:
Ever considered the energy it
takes to keep all the little digital
clocks running on your stove,
microwave, coffee pot, VCR? Or
for the instant-on from the T.V.?
Consider unplugging them until
you need them. (One drawback
was the coffee pot and the stove,
when I need to set the timer - for
the hot coffee ready when I wake
in the morning, I had to keep
resetting the time. But it is still
far from "radical measures" for
that small inconvenience!!
| Shop around for "green" products: Corporations will incorporate environmentally friendly techniques and technologies into their practices - if consumers demonstrate they value that. If, for example, Proctor & Gamble is boycotted because all their products come with excessive packaging, they will bow to consumer pressure, to keep profits up and to keep their shareholders happy. As consumers we need to shop smarter, buy products from corporations that are doing the right thing environmentally. For information on corporations that are "green" or not, go to www.coopamerica.org |
Okay, so the ones on the left are tacky,
but I am the queen of tacky. The one on
the right is a bonafide hanky, and if I were
to embroider it, well, I could possibly be
invited to more social outings.
but I am the queen of tacky. The one on
the right is a bonafide hanky, and if I were
to embroider it, well, I could possibly be
invited to more social outings.
