Green Living Steps Made simple – Earth-Friendly Eco-Friendly Guide To Help You
Green Living is an admirable goal. But most of us can’t embrace a crunchy-granola-live-off-the-land- like pioneers kind of lifestyle. If you don’t know the simple steps to take, being eco-friendly becomes a time and money drain wrought with guilt. But most would take green options if they were clear and simple.
What if Green Living became the norm? With a few basic guidelines, this year can become the year of living green without hassle or guilt. Below are 3 Guiding Principles of Green Living that can easily change your life and take care of our planet.
Three Guiding Principles of Green Living:
- Waste Not. This is so simple that it should be the basis for all decisions. Minimize the trash you create. Don’t use four paper towels if two do the job. Start a compost pile. Don’t waste gas idling in a drive through line when you’d already be done if you’d just gone inside.
- Use, re-use, re-cycle or donate. Max out the usage of everything you own. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure so consign items or at least donate. Re-use plastic food containers, recycle all items you can and reverse the horrible trend of the throwaway mentality.
- Eliminate toxins. It is mind boggling how many poisons we create and then dump back into our bodies and the environment. The biggest culprits are pesticides but there are plenty of synthetic chemical mysteries that serve as food additives, artificial fragrances, and pharmaceuticals. Toxins are just as the name implies – they are toxic and they are slowly poisoning us and the Earth.
Using these guidelines makes Green Living pretty easy, right? The next time you are at the grocery store, these Green Living principles will help you purchase food amounts that will have no waste, offer minimal packaging (or hopefully packaging you can reuse), and you’ll choose products that are organic, natural, and free of toxins.
Throughout your day, you can choose minimal waste options – don’t use a bag if you only buy one thing and use your own reusable water bottle instead of plastic water bottles.
Another significant Green Living arena is to speak out against the prolific use of pesticides. It is easy to control the use (or non-use) of pesticides in your own home. But remember that our schools, businesses, and all public spaces have odorless, colorless synthetic chemical pesticides sprayed every few months. Not green at all.
Adopting a Green Living Lifestyle isn’t hard. It is easy to live green if you take baby steps guided by simple Green Living principles.
Green Living Made Simple
Green Living seems to be a staple in marketing circles these days. Products are showing more and more green coloring in their labels. ‘Earth-friendly’ and ‘eco-friendly’ are promotional buzzwords. And grassroots movements for local consumables is gaining momentum. With the constant barrage of marketing materials pushing ‘green’, it can border on obnoxious.
Border on obnoxious? How about full fledged ad nauseum?
Unfortunately, the overuse of ‘green’ buzzwords and the guilt-driven marketing associated with it can overshadow the importance of true green living. What exactly is Green Living and why should we attempt to be green?
To simplify, the answer is: The Future. The future of our children and our planet depend on it. Adopting a green lifestyle represents a slow burn of decision making that cares about tomorrow as much as today.
Green Living is you and me, the guy next door, and as many people as we can collect to actively engage in decision making that is best for the future for our children and for our planet.
We don’t eat the same foods, drive the same cars, have kids the same age or live the same lives. We are all different and therefore it boils down to the decisions we make each and every day as to whether we are thinking only about right now or acting in the best interests of the next generation.
A simple example could be a trip to the grocery store. Someone oriented towards Green Living would probably have reusable grocery bags. The trip to the store would be lumped in with other errands (as opposed to multiple single trips which uses more gas). And food choices would be produce from the United States over imports (less fuel costs), fresh foods instead of frozen (frozen uses more electricity to preserve plus uses more power to process), and would avoid processed, packaged foods due to an aversion to preservatives that are harmful to the body.
A non-Green Living person would keep the car idling in the parking lot while shopping. Groceries would be toted in plastic bags that are thrown in the trash and not recycled. Dinners for children would come out of a box and be loaded with fake additives and preservatives sure to crank up any and all behavior symptoms.
Both shoppers have easy choices and opting for ‘green’ doesn’t have to be a chore.
Green Living is not difficult. It represents daily decisions that add up to make a healthier, happier existence. So forget all the marketing hype trying to sway you into a Green Living Guilt Trip. Just make simple decisions that use less resources, promote health and wellness, and produce less waste.
The future depends on it.
Author: Louise Hodges
Louise Hodges is committed to Green Living so she and her husband Dan began Greenbug. Greenbug offers effective, safe and green pest control solutions as an alternative to synthetic chemical pesticides. Greenbug products for People, Pets, Indoors & Outdoors kill and repel pests you don't want such as Mosquitoes, Ants, Bed Bugs, Fleas, Ticks, Roaches, Mites, etc. but cause no harm whatsoever to beneficial creatures. They offer the Greenbug Injector System to integrate with an irrigation system to safely create pest-free areas wherever water is directed. For more information, go to www.greenbugallnatural.com or watch safe pest control solutions at www.youtube.com/greenbugallnatural
