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alexseanchai) wrote2012-04-21 02:17 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2012-04-21 02:17 pm
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100 things to save the planet 001
*flips through the Living Green: 365 ways to make a difference flippy calendar*
"For a few dollars more per month, your local utility will deliver wind, solar, or water power, or some combination thereof." I rent a bedroom, a fraction of a basement, and use of the bathrooms and kitchen and utilities. I doubt this is an option.
"Resolve to buy dry goods like flour [et al] in bulk." Yes, because clearly I have the money and the storage space and the expectation of being able to use all I buy.
Note to self, investigate the possibilities found via eatwellguide.org and localharvest.org. Particularly "Adam and E's Garden of Eatin'", just because of the name. I don't expect the food budget to be substantially diverted, though.
"Eliminate all harmful chemicals from your personal-care products. Become a habitual label-reader. One simple rule: if you wouldn't put it in your mouth, don't put it on your skin[.]" Personal-care products have to be tested to hell and gone to make sure they're safe before they're sold, don't they? This idea isn't so much about harmful chemicals as about sciency-sounding chemicals.
Reusable water bottle? Do that. Take lunch instead of buying? Do that, when there's food to be took. Give to an environmental charity? Do that. Microloans to entrepreneurs committed to sustainable farming—don't do that specifically, but do do microloans. I'm looking for new things.
And that exhausts January in the calendar, and all I've learned is to investigate my Kiva recipients a bit more carefully and maybe focus on women in sustainable farming rather than women in the arts. And investigate environmentally friendly power and ask my parents if they'll (or, more likely, I'll or we'll) spend a few more dollars a month to get it. Given my mother's reaction to the impending disappearance of incandescent bulbs from the shelves, namely 'stock up', I doubt the reaction will be a positive one. (Had to buy the fluorescent for my desk lamp myself, after discovering that the LED desk lamp from ThinkGeek is ineffectual at lighting more than a few inches of desk and also had busted LEDs. At least the one I got was. I don't know if they've come out with another.)
"For a few dollars more per month, your local utility will deliver wind, solar, or water power, or some combination thereof." I rent a bedroom, a fraction of a basement, and use of the bathrooms and kitchen and utilities. I doubt this is an option.
"Resolve to buy dry goods like flour [et al] in bulk." Yes, because clearly I have the money and the storage space and the expectation of being able to use all I buy.
Note to self, investigate the possibilities found via eatwellguide.org and localharvest.org. Particularly "Adam and E's Garden of Eatin'", just because of the name. I don't expect the food budget to be substantially diverted, though.
"Eliminate all harmful chemicals from your personal-care products. Become a habitual label-reader. One simple rule: if you wouldn't put it in your mouth, don't put it on your skin[.]" Personal-care products have to be tested to hell and gone to make sure they're safe before they're sold, don't they? This idea isn't so much about harmful chemicals as about sciency-sounding chemicals.
Reusable water bottle? Do that. Take lunch instead of buying? Do that, when there's food to be took. Give to an environmental charity? Do that. Microloans to entrepreneurs committed to sustainable farming—don't do that specifically, but do do microloans. I'm looking for new things.
And that exhausts January in the calendar, and all I've learned is to investigate my Kiva recipients a bit more carefully and maybe focus on women in sustainable farming rather than women in the arts. And investigate environmentally friendly power and ask my parents if they'll (or, more likely, I'll or we'll) spend a few more dollars a month to get it. Given my mother's reaction to the impending disappearance of incandescent bulbs from the shelves, namely 'stock up', I doubt the reaction will be a positive one. (Had to buy the fluorescent for my desk lamp myself, after discovering that the LED desk lamp from ThinkGeek is ineffectual at lighting more than a few inches of desk and also had busted LEDs. At least the one I got was. I don't know if they've come out with another.)