Making the change.
When starting to ‘Go Green’ one of the most troubling questions is always, “How”.
Here at chromagreen, we have a few answers that may help you in your first steps to making that change happen.
3 Things To Leave Behind
1. Disposable Goods – As this excellent graphic of a plastic spoon puts it: “It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached a place where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home, is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you’re done with it.” We’d like to see less disposable, junk items and more long-lasting, quality items in our consumer stream.
2. This Year’s Model – Of anything, really. From an updated cell phones to new clothes, much of what we buy during the year we don’t really need, or if we do, we can usually find it used. Buying new stuff is something we can do a lot less of and be much happier for it. Last Year’s Model suits us just fine.
3. Meat for Every Meal - Cutting way back on meat consumption drastically reduces your carbon footprint. Using the weekday vegetarian plan helps you easily reduce how much meat you consume, which will boost your health and your budget.
3 Things We Want More Of
Food is the most important part of our lives because we simply can’t live without it. Unfortunately, food in our society is also getting to a point where it’s tough to live because of it, so the first two things in our list of what we want more of has to do with food – the good stuff.
1. Affordable Local Organic Food – If we’re taking the positive step to leave behind pre-made foods, let’s keep the good forward momentum going buy replacing it with local food. The 100-mile diet is a version of this, but simply doing the bulk of your shopping at farmers’ markets will make a big impact.
2. Humanely Raised Meat Availability – Cutting meat consumption is a great step towards a greener planet. But what meat we do consume is usually raised in not only an environmentally harmful manner, but it’s also simply cruel. Humanely raised meat is tough to find - not everyone has a Polyface Farm nearby. We would love to see more availability of humanely raised meat so that when we do consume it, it’s healthier and we’re all happier.
3. Less Is More - From buying fewer things to buying only the best quality items that will last the rest of our lives, we want to see less be the new more. We’re getting there, though the economy has been a primary driver rather than a conscious mind-shift away from mindless consuming. Getting to that mind set and realizing that “more” does not equal happiness is vital to a sustainable world.
We hope this helps, and look foward to you joining us in making the change a global event.
Thanks to Planet Green for the original article.
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