Earth Day!

[tarotgal]

Happy Earth Day!



This is from Jessica, the president of my old college environmental group. I thought I'd post it here as it's a very good list:

Here at the Top 5 things you can do: (in my opinion) to up you environmental
stewardship! I say keep the list going and add on....

1. Go Vegetarian...better yet Go Vegan! Meat is one of the most destructive
industries to the environment. Don't be a green hypocrite - realize the
unnecessary air, water, ground pollution as well as wasted resources that are
attributed to the animal industry.

2. Drive Less: Bike or Walk more. Live near a Train stop if possible and
take the T or Bus. If you do own a car try to purchase a hybrid vehicle like
the Toyota Prius or Civic Hybrid or other smaller cars that are fuel
efficient. DO NOT BUY SUVS.

3. Do NOT buy bottled water as much as possible! Not only are the plastic
bottles completely wasteful but allowing a company to privitalize a public
resource is extremely destructive to that local community and the profit goes
to the corporation not the community. Imagine if your well was empty because
Coca-Cola bottled water from your community's reserve? Oh wait that already
happened in India.

4. Recyle. Some of you will laugh because recycling is so like "duh" but
there are still millions of people that don't do it. So do it! Yeah some of
it does get trashed or dumped on a developing world, we know this, but a ton
of it still goes to recycling plants and is actually put back in our society.
Better yet - support recycled products and buy post-consumer plastics, paper,
glass, and aluminum!

5. Use cloth bags when shopping - not just for groceries but for anything.
Also bring the produce plastic bags back with you so you can reuse them. At
the same time, have a water bottle like a Nalgen (well don't buy a Nalgen cuz
of their parent company but other groups out there make them) and have one
that you can reuse and refill and will last forever. Use tupperware and glass
containers, not plastic bags to pack your lunch so you can reuse them.

5 1/2: Take care of yourself! Buy non-chlorine bleached products like toilet
paper, paper towels, tampons, pads, etc. you don't want dioxin going into your
body! Try to purchase organic produce and products as much as possible from
the lettuce in your grocery store to the tofu on the isle and even the clothes
you buy...