Collectively, small lifestyle changes can make a huge impact on the environment-and your life. Looking for happiness and health? What’s good for the environment is also, it turns out, great for you. Here’s a collection of tips from the No Impact community.
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We use cloth napkins and each have a napkin ring, so use them for several days before washing. We dry most laundry outside, except in the winter, when we use a drying rack for some things inside. We don’t have a paper towel holder, but keep a roll in the cabinet for use seldom. We buy some foods in bulk, taking our own containers to the store to refill.
This post was submitted by Mary.
I cook at least one big pot of beans every week. Buy dried beans in bulk to minimize shipping costs and packaging. Pick over and rinse, then cook in a slowcooker until tender. Using the slow cooker uses the least amount of electricity this side of a solar cooker. My slowcooker holds two pound of dried beans or 20 servings of cooked beans. That’s 27 cents a serving for organic beans and 15 cents for conventionally grown beans. The beans taste better than canned ones, with better texture and no tinny flavor. Use the cooking liquid to make broth or more nutritious oatmeal. Replace meat-based meals to reduce your carbon footprint.
Freeze the beans you don’t use that week. After a few weeks, you’ll have many kinds of beans to choose from to make everything from red beans and rice to hummus to black-bean soup.
This post was submitted by Linda Watson.
No car, we use common transportations;
We use to eat and buy organic;
We buy only the essential producted in France or in European countries;
We choose only vegetables an fruits by season and producted in our country;
We use to cook ourself and don’t buy speed food;
I do not eat meal, my husband and my daughter only during the week-end.
We sometimes eat fish never more than once by week and only protected fishes;
We do not buy Coca or others products from big firms;
We switch off all the electric systems each evening;
We use candles often as possible;
We try to explain our decisions and why we do what we do at others people around us;
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This post was submitted by KIEFFER.
We have seperated our trash. We are recycling. We use the plastic storage totes, one goes next to the trash can, three in the garage. Once the one in the house is full, we take it to the garage and seperate into paper, plastic, and cans. We have reduced our need for trash cans. We used to have three cans every week, we are now down to one. It is easy to do, just takes a little more effort.
This post was submitted by Jessica.
I can’t say enugh about them. We bought 2 dozen, along with wraps and used them for 3 children. Afterwards we sold the wraps for 1/2 original price and use the cloth diapers all over the house. Haning them in the sunn natually bleaches them and baking soda gets them very clean.
3 kids + over 6000 diapers changes=$60 and no landfill waste!
This post was submitted by Melissa.