Question by : What else can we do to improve our environmental impact?
Looking for more suggestions for green living
Currently my husband and I:
-Use a clothesline instead of a dryer
-Use fans instead of AC
-only turn on lights at night
-Collect rain water to water our plants
-use reusable bottles when out in public
-we both only drive around 8,000 miles a year. We would love to drive less, but currently can’t as we don’t live in an area that is bike friendly, and we don’t have public transport.
What else can we do?
Best answer:
Answer by Nicolas
Food!
-Eat less meat. North America’s huge appetite for meat is an ecological disaster. Every pound of beef requires about 10lbs of grain, and gives you about 1/10th the calories (as the 10lbs of grain). Some pork farms generate more raw sewage than major urban areas. Having meat on your plate at every meal is not at all a necessity. You don’t need to eliminate it, just eat less of it. Eggs, poultry and dairy are excellent alternatives; they have much less of an impact and eat up less resources per calorie produced.
-Eat less in general (if you tend to over eat). I don’t mean starve yourself, i just mean don’t over eat. Not only does eating too much make you fat, its a wasteful practice. That food required land, water, electricity, petroleum products and transportation to get to your plate. Again, this doesn’t mean starve yourself. Just have a little bit of moderation.
-Try to buy local products when they are in season. Avoid buying over-packaged products. And this is more of a personal choice but avoid buying frozen-dinner type meals. You are really not getting the calories for your money and the production of food in this way is wasteful.
- Learn to cook! Its beyond me how so many Americans seem paranoid that their government will control their lives…yet they’re perfectly happy to let companies decide what they’ll eat.
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