Clement Bickham 's blog ::Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
There is so much talk about going green today that is complex and confusing to understand. Online there is the Pickens Plan; which gives a very well written idea about weaning the U.S. off foreign oil toward natural gas until we can develop alternative fuels. It makes sense. It is thorough and very convincing. It is a way to stop sending so much money to foreign countries (to purchase oil) and keep the cash in the U.S. We need to think about that. We are sending our cash out of the country. That isn't good. It means there is less money floating around the U.S. The book Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach lists fifty task items for going green. Some of them are as complex as ensuring your house is built with certain materials to starting your own green business. So realistically, most people will not check off all fifty items on the list. However, we can learn about these things as we go and eventually we can check off as many as possible. If we don't start our own green businesses we can at least try and do business with green businesses. Both the Pickens plan and the Go Green, Live Rich book are excellent reads. They are written well and clear enough for most people to understand. As resources for understanding the whole 'green' issue and solutions, I would definitely recommend both. The Pickens plan even has an explanation that identifies some of our economic issues. I'm not saying 'green' is the solution to all our problems but it is worth learning about so that you can make informed decisions about your everyday actions. It is your future, your children's future. Going green is important for our environment. It seems as though it's a fad that comes and goes every few decades but it does make a difference. As a child I grew up in southern California when the smog was very bad from car and factory emissions. I lived in the eastern basin where the offshore winds blew in the smog against the mountain ranges and choked the inland suburbs. We frequently had days we could not go outside during recess because of the thick grey smog. My chest used to hurt to breathe deep on those days. Many people don't realize the Los Angeles basin and Inland Empire don't have days like that anymore. The smog is nowhere near that bad anymore. The emissions controls put in place have improved the smog conditions in that area and you don't see smog like that in L.A. anymore. Granted, there is still smog there; but nothing like it was back in the early seventies. The efforts do make a difference. We do improve things. In our country we have health issues that are at epidemic and pandemic numbers that most of us don't realize. Obesity and diabetes are one example; brought on probably because of our desire to eat fast food loaded with unhealthy, unnatural stuff in it. Our autoimmune systems are also going out of whack and we don't know why or how to cure them but it appears to point toward toxic exposures and cell damage. This all points back toward us eliminating the foreign pollutants and 'getting back to nature'. Not just in good conscience should we be concerned about being green, but for our own health and the health of our children, grandchildren and generations to come. In a very general, simplistic explanation of how to go green, the concepts can be divided into three categories; Consume, Trash and Buy. Consume - what natural resources do you consume and could you conserve? Water, electricity, oil, paper, etc. Could you do more online and use less paper? My grandfather used to collect junk mail and draft paper, cut it, staple it together and make note pads for phone messages using the back of the papers. Could you use less water? Water the yard less maybe and do only full loads of laundry. Shorter showers or perhaps baths. Shut off more lights and unplug unused appliances? Lower watt bulbs, use shut off timers, lower the thermostat, open windows instead of a/c, use fans to circulate heat or a/c, open shades for sunny windows to help heat rooms or close them to help keep cool. Use more efficient automobiles? Purchase a hybrid as your next vehicle maybe? Get rid of an old muscle car? So evaluate what you consume and see if there are areas you can improve on. Trash - what are you throwing away and is it biodegradable? Do you recycle? Do you have a place to take your recycle items? What items can you recycle? Cans, glass, plastic, paper, wood, cloth, metal?? Where does your trash go? Find out what your trash service does with the trash they pick up. Some sort and recycle, some just dump in a landfill, etc. It's important to know where your trash goes and what happens to what you are throwing away. Do you have a compost container? Should you? Could you reduce the amount of plastic containers you throw away? Maybe get a water filter instead of buying bottled water. Glass instead of plastic. Reuse containers - my grandparents always kept the glass containers and used them to store everything from food to nails in the garage. Any container that came home from the grocery store had potential for reuse. Buy the reusable store bags; they are stronger than the plastic ones anyway. Are you polluting the air, water, ground with your car, lawn mower, fertilizers, bug sprays, house paints, etc? Look at all the areas of trash you generate. Buy - are you buying natural products and cleaners or things that are good for the environment? Are you buying from companies that operate efficiently and with 'green' factories or are they polluting the environment overseas? Know who you do business with. You don't need to be doing all these green efforts at home only to be supporting a company that is thwarting them tenfold overseas with a factory that is pumping thick black smoke into the air and polluting the water because they have no regulations. We need to boycott those companies so that they will abide by green standards in order to stay in business. The environment is important to all of us. We need to purge ourselves of toxins. You wouldn't willingly feed yourself these things if you could see them in a glass. Become educated and understand what is there that you cannot see. Know what you are consuming. Know what you might be eating or drinking inadvertently. It can and will affect you eventually. Be smart about it now. |
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