I recently read that there is more lawn than wheat growing in the USA. I’m sure the stats are similar for Canada. With a growing urge to expand my urban garden, we decided to plant squash, pumpkins and beans along the fence line at the side and front of the house. The neighbouring children noticed us and helped plant and water them. Of course we will share the bounty with the children and teach them about the garden as it grows. We also hope to expand the garden/lawn.
This post was submitted by Shelley Essaunce.
For the sake of our planet, I went vegan 4 years ago after learning that:
-it takes 16 pounds of grain (often GMO) to produce a single pound of meat.
-animal agriculture is the #1 cause of deforestation and oceanic dead zones
-farming animals produces more greenhouse gases than, well, anything else because methane is 23x more potent than CO2
I then began to only by organics at the grocery store… and decided to reduce the amount of packaging my products have… then I began going to the farmer’s market.
Now, I don’t buy ANYTHING in packaging. All of my food comes the Whole Foods bulk bins (in reused bags) or form the farmer’s market, and I can honestly say I don’t miss anything, I have so much fun cooking and meeting my farmer friends.
This post was submitted by Kitty Jones.
I refill my:
-raisin
-nut
-cerceal/granola
-flour
-sugar
-pasta
-beans/lentils
-rice
-ect
bags in the bulk bins! Check the bulk bins before you buy stuff in packaging! It’s usually cheaper!
This post was submitted by Kitty Jones.
As most people probably know already, plastic consumption needs to be decreased.
I no longer buy bottles of water but instead invested in a metal flask to fill with water from home and use time and time again.
This saves me money as I no longer have to buy bottled water (saving you time also), is better for the environment and is also healthier as most water bottles are made from the kind of plastic that leeches into liquid over time, and especially with reuse (PETE 1, HDPE 2 especially - if it’s PP 5 then you’re alright).
If you get a metal flask make sure it’s a stainless steel one as aluminium made containers are known to be harmful.
I also had a bit of fun with this by etching a design into the exterior metalwork and adding a paracord lanyard for personalisation and identification (no one’s mistaking it for theirs!) purposes.
No brainer!
This post was submitted by Jayc Dryden.
We are two retirees who are re-designing our life to fit within a smaller footprint using Gardening, Recycling and Reduction in Consumption. We are converting the house garden into a living larder and working towards raising our own fish protein in our water catchment pool. The pool will have the added benefit of feeding our vegetable plot. We are Urban Foragers, collecting other people’s trash, using it to create our Eden. We have reduced our car mileage by 75% and soon be converting our car to Biofuel. The website is a journal or our daily adventure into a Low Impact Life.
This post was submitted by Yam Bean.
Hi No Impact Project,
We’re curious if you’d like to do a story about the several ways we’re minimizing the environmental impact of our wedding (while increasing its social impact).
We are:
1. Having a potluck
2. Discouraging material gifts and asking people to donate to 350, Peaceful Uprising, Rootstrikers, and the NLG instead.
3. Paying to offset people’s carbon emissions for travel (or they can buy us trees if they want to offset them themselves).
4. Using apples as decoration (local, compostable, edible arrangments)
5. Getting a second hand dress
6. Renting houses for people to stay at instead of hotel rooms (local economy, less waste)
Please let us know if you’re interested. I don’t think it would fit in the 150 word section, but might be useful elsewhere.
Best,
Linnea and Guillaume
860-898-0101
This post was submitted by Linnea M. Palmer Paton.
I have been on a journey over the last 5 years to reduce my impact on the environment. These are some of the things I have done:
Buy from organic delivery box schemes.
Grow fruit, veg and herbs in my garden.
No chemicals at all. I make my own beauty products and cleaning products.
Use reusable cotton menstrual pads and cotton wool pads.
Buy less.
Recycle.
Reduce the amount of gas and electricity I use.
Use public transport, cycle or walk as much as possible.
Buy fairtrade.
Reuse items, where possible.
I will keep going on my journey and hope to make at least a little difference.
This post was submitted by Kelly.
I just barely finished the Documentary and I was almost drawn to tears. This year I have felt a strong pull to re-connect myself to nature and to take steps to reduce my environmental impact. I keep the lights off as much as I can, I drive as little as possible, etc. After this video I will step things up a little by making most my trips by bike, I will study sustainable living with extreme conviction and I will do all I can to take steps to eliminate my impact. I just want to say thank you so much for doing this. It has helped me to grow as a person. Thank you.
This post was submitted by Jeremy Smith.
Being in the military it isn’t always easy to have time or resources to do things the Green Way but my family and I are working towards it. This year I bought my electric car and the gas van stays in the driveway whenever possible. I began riding my bike to the mall for me to cathc the bus and my wife uses the gas car for 95% of our driving needs.
We have made our home as energy efficient as practical for the time being. I will replace the appliances with more efficient ones when the wear out. I have put up a few solar panels and look to get a wind generator soon.
Getting juiced up!. If you really want to feel the best part of going green you need to experiance juicing fruits and vegies. If you want to eliminate many diseases and prevent them from controling your life then simply transition your diet into 75% fruits and vegies via juice. You will end up with a nice green juice from the earth and it will give you the energy you need without the packagin, sodium or preservitives. See the fat sick and nearly dead video and web site.
Our lives are forming up to a healthy, clean and fun lifestyle that we should all attempt to obtain.
Small increments of change make a large difference when mixed in with time.
This post was submitted by Todd Grahek.
We are a small Mom and Pop company here on Galveston island Texas ,For everyone who purchases a wind generator , solar panels or desalinator for thier Cruising sailboat we donate 10% of the total sale to thier favorite Non Profit Conservation organization and 1% goes to www.onepercentfortheplanet.org
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This post was submitted by Paddy Delaney.