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Living A Green Life- What are you doing?
Posted by Shuttercraft • 8/10/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: green, living
While we may not be able to undo what we have done to the earth/environment, we need to make it a goal to achieve a sustainable future. Do you realize how much of a impact a single person makes on the environment? I'm no tree huger, I just want to keep this place we call home alive! After thinking about it, for the next 7-8 months I will be living a vary green life! I will not be using cars, electricity, propane, or much of anything. I want you to think of a way to make your life more green! you do not have to sell everything and walk across America, just something small. Buy LED light bulbs, use less water, carpool, do something that will make a difference.
Together we can stop the self-destruction that we are currently doomed too. What are you doing to live a green life?.
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I burn all my trash in the backyard -
Absolutely nothing.-
Why not?
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because he is part of the problem
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Stop picking on DB, hes too cool. I am sure he has a reason... ok, probably not!
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SC- Because I don't give a shiznit.
CA- I am the problem
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Why don't you give a "shiznit"?
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Why would I?
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Because you this largely involves you DB. Because this is the only EARTH we have.
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I'll be dead soon enough. And don't worry, jesus will save everyone.
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My husband and I have been living a simple, frugal, almost rustic and very green life for 30 years. It would take hours to describe the changes we have made, and I am multitasking from work so I can't do that. In essence we dropped out of the consumer driven society and moved back to the land where we could produce our own food and barter with other organic food producers. We reduced our purchases to a bare minimum of "needs" and we reuse, and recycle. We have been involved in many environmental preservation and protection initiatives as well as ecosystem restoration initiatives. We do have electricity but aside from computers and 1 old TV and 1 old stereo we do not have any electronic toys. -
@DB If everyone before us said "I will be dead soon enough, so who gives a crap" This would would be a horrible place!
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IMO he's just bored and intent on "pulling your chain" to amuse himself. Why respond?
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I'm all for human extinction. The world would be better with out us.
TT- I'm being dead serious. -
think about how much better the world has become since dinosaurs!
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@TT We are just having fun, we have no hard feelings, or I don't at least.
@DB The would would be a much better place without us, but we are here and we can make a change. -
TT- I don't appreciate you telling me I should die.
CA- Not much. I miss giant insects.
sc- I am making a change. I am offsetting all the 'green' people by doing the opposite. -
giant insects rule! BTW just ignore the troll. Feeding them only makes them worse. I don't want you to die.
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You're so kind CA. I don't want me to do die either.
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death is a serious issue!
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Indeed it is and one wonders why any well adjusted human being would not be able to get a joke. Far be it from me to go first though you can have that spot.
It's the perfect place for recycled ning dings! lol
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LOL I think I know who made that ning site! lol
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We all do and we all know what's really going on.
Some people just can't take a joke when hear one.
I'm all for human extinction. The world would be better with out us.
Really? Okay then you go first ... lol
Now tell me that isn't funny. -
Had I had drink It would have landed on the computer. -
I get jokes, and take them very well. I just don't like you, and because of that, I won't consider you telling me to basically die as a joke.
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I use public transportation unless I need to go somewhere out of town that doesn't have it, and then I rent a car.
And I belong to a CSA (community sponsored agriculture) that works with a biodynamic farm.
But I have my air conditioner on full tilt at the moment. The apartment I'm renting has horrible insulation and the roof is black, not white. And I'm about to waste lots of water to cool off.-
I don't blame you! lol
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I recycle, reduce, and reuse as much as possible. I have composts in both MA and CA, I always take cloth bags to the grocery store, and my husband and I both drive fuel efficient cars (except for his van, which he uses for work). All our appliances are energy-star--we purposely buy products that are eco-friendly and support eco-friendly companies. Likewise, we do NOT support companies that do little to help the environment.
My mother is a huge environmentalist and has been working toward preserving the environment since long before it was a 'thing' to do so--she basically raised me in a way where we learned to reduce, reuse and recycle. To me, it's really second nature. -
I recycle religiously, and drive a very efficient car; I'm also involved with the environmental campaigns at my workplace (as part of my union work) in order to reduce carbon emissions, emphasise public transport and increase recycling.
I will be doing more if I get funding for PhD Two - the subject matter is making businesses more green and ethical. -
I recycle every small piece of paper and reuse. If I need something like a lamp, furniture piece etc. I first hunt the local thrift stores before buying it at a store. -
recycling is one of the best ways to help!
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Truthfully I do everything I can...I walk and take mass transit everywhere
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i gather separately paper for recycling. change edison bulbs to energy-efficient ones. all for my ukraine -
Reduced consumption of packaged goods for over 10 years, buy in bulk, use a cloth shopping bag(s), reuse and recycle tons of stuff, grow my own vegetables & some fruit & seeds. Got rid of one vehicle for over a year now. Walk and ride a bike when we can. Use a dimmer switch on lights. Use some CFL's. Try to buy as much locally produced goods as possible. Plant trees. Working with a relative to develop newer and better LED lighting. -
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1. My new home is green and doesn't use any gas.
2. In the next few years we will be installing rain barrels
3. We are going to dry our clothes on a line in the summer
4. We reuse a lot of the things from our purchases like butter bowls, economy sized pickle jars
5. hoping to put in a compost in the next few years as well.
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we do what we can. we've always recycled and reduced our waste and we try to practice careful usage. -
I will admit, I don't recycle often. My building doesn't offer it and the recycling center is quite difficult to get to without a car. I know, poor excuse.
The biggest thing I did was decide to move into the city and sell my car. I now walk, ride my bicycle, and take public transportation everywhere.
I also only buy organic produce and meat. Modern Industrial farming is incredibly harmful for the environment with their use of chemical, petroleum based fertilizers. These fertilizers contaminate water sources and lead to the growth of algae blooms in the oceans contributing to the growth of oxygen, deprived dead zones.
Corn fed, factory farmed livestock is one the greatest contributors to global warming and is also the largest consumer of corn in the country. More land in this country is dedicated to livestock feed than for human consumption. This is land that could be reforested and or rededicated for human food cultivation that is more environmentally sound. Also, corn fed livestock is livestock that is essentially being starved to death as corn has no nutritional value to most animals. These animals are being kept alive through the abuse of antibiotics and questionable vitamin and protein slurries. It's a public health nightmare waiting to happen.
I am also LEED accredited in green building practices as new construction is one of the biggest waste generators in the country.-
These animals are being kept alive through the abuse of antibiotics and questionable vitamin and protein slurries. It's a public health nightmare waiting to happen.
Have you seen that latest on that?
The FDA just announced administration's support for antibiotic restrictions. The Obama administration is prepared to combat antibiotic resistance by setting limits on the nontherapeutic use of medically valuable antibiotics in agriculture, according to Joshua Sharfstein, the deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Antibiotics are added to the feed and water of animals that are not sick to promote growth and prevent diseases caused by overcrowded condition in CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), a practice that leads to antibiotic resistance. Dr. Sharfstein announced the new FDA policy at a July congressional hearing on the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA).
The administration is considering ending the use of clinically valuable antibiotics for growth promotion and feed efficiency and restricting over-the-counter use of antibiotics. The announcement, which stunned the animal agriculture industry, reverses decades of agency policy. UCS scientist Margaret Mellon also testified at the hearing.
"The evidence connecting the routine use of antibiotics in livestock with antibiotic-resistant illness in humans is clear and compelling." -- Margaret Mellon, Food and Environment Program Director
For more information, read Dr. Mellon's testimony
www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/solutions/wise_antibiotics/pamta-testim...
The summary of PAMTA www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/solutions/wise_antibiotics/pamta.html
The New York Times article and editorial about the new FDA policies.
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/health/policy/14fda.html?_r=2&hp
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/opinion/24fr3.html -
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Here's are links to a very useful site.
The Eat Well Guide and The Green Fork Blog
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This is really grievous though.
Did you know that GE crops grown in a third of southeast wildlife refuges in the USA ? Farmers are opting to grow genetically engineered (GE) crops on a third of national wildlife refuges in the southeastern United States, in spite of federal laws mandating that refuges be managed to benefit wildlife — not farmers.
GE varieties may be planted in refuges only as a last resort when conventional varieties are not available, and only after a full environmental and public review. Yet the permits granted to grow these varieties cited farmer preference or profitability as the reason for growing the engineered varieties, and none of the refuges undertook the required reviews.
www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1212
There was a federal court decision banning GE crops in a Delaware wildlife refuge. A federal court has ordered the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to prohibit the planting of GE crops on the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware, where local farmers had been growing GE corn and soybeans on more than 500 acres.
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We stopped buying paper products for the most part - real plates, real napkins, cloths for cleaning that sort of thing. We garden and grow our own food, use recycled bags/cloth bags for groceries (or whatever I need to carry) reduce, reuse and recycle items.
We've reduced our trash output to one bag maybe two per week - and upped our recycle output to two bins per week or more. My brother in law is supposed to build me a proper composter so we can reduce our trash (and increase our garden output) even more.
I drive as little as posisble (although lately more than usual) and try to make on trip worth my while when I do go out. -
I saw on tv that water is very important for people in Africa and we learned some tips on how to save water. Not only for us but also for the people. I put a cup in the bathroom and we started to use it when we brush our teeth. That's not much but it can help.-
There is much, much more you can do.
1. Don't buy bottled water
2. Replace your appliances with energy efficient ones
3. Place low flow aerator valves on your faucets and replace your showerhead with an aerated, low flow shower head.
4. If your toilet is older than 5 years old, replace it with a low volume model.
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As a garden designer my everyday life is involved in getting people out of their air conditioned houses and into the outdoors. We make it beautiful so they can't resist it. We do everything we can to encourage butterflies as these are sort of the canaries in the coal mine. An environment where they thrive is generally poison free and full of flowers. The whole place ends up filled with life- birds, fish, mammals (like rabbits, raccoons, armadillo, squirrels and sometimes otters). At my garden cottage, which we just moved into, we are going to eliminate most if not all sod and generally put in plants that take low maintenance. Going green shouldn't feel like you are giving up something because when you embrace nature, you are transported into the amazingly beautiful and infinitely layered sphere we call planet earth. Sounds like paradise to me.
Of course there are always the adolescents who say they hate everything. They are a lot like babies that overturn their vegetables and have tantrums to get noticed, except they are reposited in adultish bodies. With any luck, they eventually mature and start to care about and relate to others of their species. Some just keep having tantrums. As long as they don't cry too long, I can tolerate them. Arrested development, no matter how irritating, should, as with any handicap, be viewed with a certain amount of compassion. -
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you didn't go to my blog,
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@Shuttercraft: I hate these spammers who leave you the same message over and over again: 'Hi, love your blog and of course I visited your blog. Keep on blogging and please visit my blog too.' And then they don't visit your blog. -
I went to both of your blogs and thought they were really great. But I'm fairly new to this, are you saying some people are not sincere? I am shocked! They must be really good print actors (liars), because they sure fooled me. Actually, I do find it odd when someone who has a blog that is perhaps just a rehash of something in the public domain or articles from "People"and they want to be your friend when they really seem to be shopping for is someone to give them traffic, etc. I think it would be equally phony of me to lead them on. I haven't played that game since my freshman year in college.
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Yes, you'll see a lot of spammers on BC. They send the exact same message to everyone and are not sincere in that they really visited your blog. All they want is traffic.
One dude on here kept sending me those messages, then I replied to him that I don't believe he visited my blog. He got so angry that he left a one-star malicious review of my blog (which he never even visited). I reported him and admin removed the review, thankfully.
Nowadays if I get messages like that I just mark them as spam.
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I have started my green(ish) living. I recycle papers, bottles and the like and I also grow my own veg! -
I walk now...only because I can't afford car insurance now. -
Informing people how to live green on my posts from last month entitled "Earth is Dying"
And I don't eat meat and recycle. -
1. I dont throw my garbage anywhere.
2. I dont smoke.
3. I plant trees.
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I Am going to be using a Solio Solar Powered Battery Charger for my phone on my walk across America. Having a way to always charge my cellphone and GPS will be amazing! my biggest worry besides my water supply is the next place to charge my Blackberry phone. Having a Solar Powered Battery Charger will give me the advantage to charge my phone now matter where I am!
Did you know that over the next five years, we will import and use 2.5 billion chargers for handheld electronics in the U.S. alone. These chargers most of which end up in landfills - will create a total of 9 billion kilograms of CO2. This is equivalent to the pollution created by five year's worth of driving by 1.8 million American cars!
Over a twelve month period, 100,000 people charging their mobile phones would produce:
-172,500 pounds of CO2, enough to fill 6 million basketballs.
-412 pounds of sulphur dioxide (SO2) the cause of acid rain, enough to fill 3.6 million ping pong balls. -Plug into the sun with Solio for free, clean energy!
Using this charger will be one more step to a green Sustainable life.
"The Solio Magnesium Edition is the world's most advanced hybrid charger. Engineered to meet the demands of the serious adventurer, Solio Mg edition combines the most efficient solar panels with the highest capacity battery to collect and store power. The Solio Mg is our first iGo® compatible charger. With expanded compatibility and a strong yet elegant magnesium alloy shell, this is the most powerful and versatile hybrid charger ever made.
Solio is a hybrid because it can accept power from either the wall socket or Sun storing this energy within Solio's internal rechargeable battery. Solio then uses this energy to power your gadgets at the same rate as if they were plugged into the wall. Solio will also hold its charge for up to a year. Solio limits your need to purchase and carry around multiple chargers for all of your gadgets and is your one stop charging solution for all of your products from cell phones and iPods, to digital cameras, game players, and GPS.
- One hour of sun will give you enough juice to play your iPod™ for about an hour or provide up to 25 mins of additional talk time on most cell phones.*
- Provides an emergency power source when away from power outlets.
- Adapter tips allow you to power multiple gadgets with a single charger ( tips for most products included in pack.)
- Works with multiple gadgets, including mobile phones, iPhone™, Bluetooth® headsets, smartphones/PDAs, MP3 players, portable gaming devices, digital cameras, GPS and much more.
- Reusable - use it again and again.
- Compact lightweight design - convenient for travel or emergency use."
-www.solio.com
When I use the solio more I will report back to let you know how I like it. -
Not the kind of GREEN life I imagined....-
What kind of GREEN life did you imagine?
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I've just post about it on my blog a few days ago. Meet my plants here idealpinkrose.blogspot.com/2009/08/everyday-is-green-day.html
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I filter toxins from my air with houseplants; use nontoxic cleaners; drive an energy-efficient car as little as possible (2000 miles in 5 months); take reusable bags to the grocery store, recycle; compost; grow herbs to increase my neighbourhood's biodiversity; educate people about nontoxic methods for making shampoo, controlling fleas, controlling fire ants, making homemade wine, cider, mead and vinegar; buy electricity from 100% renewable sources; buy nothing I don't absolutely need; carpool when possible; trip chain; live near public transportation so my clients can get to me; work from home; use CFLs; use ceiling fans and fans when when possible rather than air conditioning; eliminate all synthetic fragrances; listen to classical music for the health benefits, so that I require fewer resources to maintain my health; replaced my carpet with low emission hard-surface floors which require less electricity to clean; have reusable napkins and cleaning cloths; programmable thermostats; filter water at the tap (and yes, you can recycle the Brita pitcher filter cartridges); use the library rather than buying books; and probably a bunch of stuff I take for granted and am forgetting! -
Recycle. Short showers. Compost. Canvas bags. Non toxic cleaning products. Re-use. Homemade preserves. Volunteer at an exotic animal rescue shelter. Not enough, but a start.
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