What do you do to help the environment? (Earth)

[JMoum04]

Originally Posted by beckysoup61

That's awesome Leonne. That's what I'm trying to do, is keep our electricity bill down, which is hard.

I also am trying to buy things that have already been recycled and made into new products (wrappers on my foods and products)

If you're looking for recycled paper, here's a good start . . .
http://www.thegreenoffice.com/index.php
There's also a brand called Second Nature that deals in recycled paper products as well. They're actually pretty good. I use their notepads at my job.

[Seyorni]

Yes, I do all the popular, "three Rs" things that are so stylish these days, but my greatest contribution, my crowning achievement, is that I have never bred.

The environmental footprint of the average American is huge. A single child's lifetime consumption can wipe out any good even the most abstemious parent might achieve.

Failure to add the environmental impact of one's children to one's ecological tally-sheet is ostrichism at best; more probably hubris.

It is our sheer population that is the overwhelming problem. Earth is a finite system and we are already living beyond its carrying capacity. Our numbers cannot help but degrade it.

I'm sorry, but for an aware adult to breed could well be considered selfish and morally reprehensible.

[MaddLlama]

I make my own cleaning solutions, or I use "natural" cleaners, and I do my research instead of listening to the fear-mongering media and the hippie-laden Greenpeace tell me. I take everything that environmental organizations say with a grain of salt, unless it's run by somebody who really knows thier science. Just because some of these "environmentalists" sound smart doesn't mean they actually know what they're talking about.

[Bishka]

Originally Posted by Seyorni

I'm sorry, but for an aware adult to breed could well be considered selfish and morally reprehensible.

I disagree, and I will ignore that comment about my wanting to be a mother being selfish and 'morally reprehensible'.


I'm also assuming you think anybody on here that has children was selfish and morally reprehensible as well?

[Bishka]

Originally Posted by MaddLlama

I make my own cleaning solutions, or I use "natural" cleaners, and I do my research instead of listening to the fear-mongering media and the hippie-laden Greenpeace tell me. I take everything that environmental organizations say with a grain of salt, unless it's run by somebody who really knows thier science. Just because some of these "environmentalists" sound smart doesn't mean they actually know what they're talking about.

That's awesome.

I try to do all my own research and have science back things up before I go out buy things.

[evearael]

Originally Posted by MaddLlama

I make my own cleaning solutions...

Care to share recipies?

[MaddLlama]

Originally Posted by evearael

Care to share recipies?

Baking soda is a housekeepers best friend. =)

Club soda is really good for stains, and a mixture of lemon juice and tartar sauce makes a good spot bleach. Warm white vinegar with a little hot water in a spray bottle is excellent for soap scum and shower stains, and baking soda and vinegar are great for stainless steel sinks.

^__^

When that fails, or to wash my granite counter tops and other things I used Method brand cleaners and laundry detergent.

[MaddLlama]

Originally Posted by beckysoup61

That's awesome.

I try to do all my own research and have science back things up before I go out buy things.

I have a really hard time trusting a lot of the media-happy environmental groups. Most of them really just want to sit outside and have a drum circle. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they don't really know thier science. Back a few years ago there was a huge environmental rally in DC, and nearly all of them, including the woman who organized the rally, fell for this. How am I supposed to take anything they say about the plight of the earth seriously when they can't identify the chemical make-up of water? That's grade school chemistry.
And, not to mention that I'm still appauled that several years ago Greenpeace and other groups convinced third world countries not to take the tons of food we offered to them because it was genetically engineered. They had the nerve to lie to the leaders of these countries and tell them that the food was poisonous, when nothing could be further from the truth. They lied, and millions that could have had food, got nothing. They lie to the public and protest grocery stores and tell customer that GE food has animal genes in it, and that they release it to the public without testing it. They're either grossly and dangerously misinformed, or purposefully hiding information and lying to people.
Science does infinately more for the earth than these political environmental mouth-pieces.