Product Tips And Food Choices:
Choose Organic Foods
Eating organic food is healthier for you and for the environment as it omits the pesticides and toxic fertilizers. It also helps sustain smaller farmers, instead of factory farms, which leads to less pollution.
Factory farms pollute more, contributing to global warming. Apart from the fact that they abuse the animals, the meat from these animals is harmful to your health.
Choose sustainable farmed food, adapt a foodstyle high in vegetable choices, and when eating meat and eggs, choose from free-range, non-antibiotic and non growth-hormone animals.
Choose fish from non-toxic farming resources or wild, and best when not choosing the overfished ones for our long-term consciousness.
Shop and eat in appropriate proportions, cook with care, and don't waste it.
This does not mean eat everything on your plate since stuffing your belly instead of the garbage-can. That does not help the environment either. Overconsumption causes disease and therefore more waste with the need of medicine and hospitals, not to mention, you suffer.
Instead, ask in advance to omit foods from the dish that you already know you are not going to eat anyway, bring left-overs home with you for lunch tomorrow, or give it to someone hungry in the street.
Go Waste-Less and Choose Natural and Non-Toxic Products
Non-toxic household cleaners, unbleached toilet-paper and paper-towels. Again both healthier for you and the earth. You don't have to breathe in the fumes or have toxic products touch your skin. And for the environment, it causes less pollution to the manufacture of these.
Try products from such as Seventh Generation, EarthWise, BioKleen, and Ecover.
Use recycled paper at the office and omit the throw-away pen.
Store your food in glass containers that last longer, especially if you use a microwave (not recommended) to heat your food. Plastic breaks down over time and is also unhealthy for you as it leaks into the food when heated.
Buy microfiber cleaning cloths that are washable, reusable and trap the dirt and spills better than using tons of paper-towels
Buy larger containers of dish-soap and poor into smaller containers as you need it instead of many small bottles.
Wash and dry out your ziplock bags, if you use such.
Hang it on a chopstick in a glass.
Buy products that come in glass containers with lids that screw on so you can use them for storage later.
Take off your shoes indoors - less cleaning, less use of energy.
Choose airlines with the newest fleet when traveling. They use less fuel. I believe Continental is the one with newest planes right now.
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