Even more tips on reducing Global Warming
I covered household tips and Travel tips now here are tips pertaining to American’s true national pastime - shopping. Again, not verified but they sound reasonable.
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING
Focus on Shopping
1) Buy recycled paper products. It takes 70-90% less energy to make recycled paper and it prevents the loss of forests worldwide.
2) By locally grown and produced foods. The average meal in the United States travels 1,200 miles to your plate. Buying locally will save fuel, reduce CO2, and keep money in your community.
3) Buy fresh foods instead of frozen. Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.
4) Seek out and support local farmers’ markets. They reduce the amount of energy required to grow and transport the food to you by 1/5.
5) Buy organic foods. Organic soils capture and store CO2 at much higher levels than soils from conventional farms. If we grew all of our corn and soybeans organically, we’d remove 580 Billion pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
6) Avoid heavily packaged products. You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%.
7) Eat less meat. Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and cows are one of the greatest methane emitters.
How about buying recycled clothing? There are great thrift shops and salvation army stores all around this area.
When you do buy new, buy made in the USA. Shorter shipping distances=lower emmissions. Plus, USA=greater environmental protection standards r/t production.
Also, I know this has been said many times before, but use those tote bags for bringing things home, or use paper instead of plastic then reuse the paper for garbage-much more landfill friendly.
I’ve always wondered how many Wegmans Made in USA plastic bags equal the sexy and fashionable Wegmans Made in China black bags?
Are we talking footprints or skid marks here?
What do I do when faced with the impromptu trip to the store without my reusable bags. Hang my head in shame and accept the plastic bag along with gawking of the Earth Police or bend to the guilt and be a good green consumer and add yet another bag to my growing arsenal of reusable bags?
Exactly how many reusable bags can one purchase that sit un-reused in the cabinet just waiting for the opportunity for a thirty bag shopping extravaganza?
Signed,
Photographer, that honestly attempts to be green despite using those nasty chemicals daily.
To address an upcoming comment there is nothing green about digital photography.
I don’t use wegmans reusable bags. I use cloth tote bags that I have accumulated through the years. Most of us have them from sending the kids to nursery school, or the “go with the flow-breastfeed” tote that I thought EVERYONE owned. You know what I mean? My favorite tote-Kliban cat sitting on stool, playing guitar singing, “Love to eat them mousies, mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off, nibble at they tiny feet.”
*note-cloth totes can be purchased at Salvation army stores-they’re used, but washable.
FYI - I forget my bags sometimes, but when I don’t, I only use about 6 bags for a full week’s of groceries for a family of 3.
I swear, they ought to issue math licenses the same way they issue driver’s licenses. And for much the same reason.
Case in point
Once? Or per month? Year? Fortnight? Minute?
It matters, FSMdammit. If you don’t express things like this with absolutely zero ambiguity, you open yourself up to every manner of attack on your credibility.
Seems to me that would be per growing cylce, but we can certainly wait and see.
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Got it. thanks.
Farmers markets and buying loclally are great - there’s also grow your own, and compost what you can from your kitchen and yard and use that on the garden.
Or, buy a pig and feed him the scraps and butcher him when he’s big. Oops, forgot about the methane.