Benefit Your Health and Preserve Planet Earth
The definition of “green living” is something more than choosing paper instead of plastic grocery bags, recycling beer cans and newspapers, driving a fuel efficient car, eating organically grown food.
These activities certainly contribute to keeping our planet Earth and our personal health in good shape… But understanding “green living” and what exactly does it have to do with improving personal health and energy brings us to a broad definition of green living: Green Living is any action or activity that results in a positive impact, to any degree, on the environment so that the planet can continue to support the generations to come.
Looking at it from a different prospect, the practice of green living minimizes or eliminates toxins from our environment as well as reducing and eliminating purely destructive habits. A lifestyle that undertakes reduced use of the Earth’s natural resources. Practitioners of green living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.
The basic goal of green living is preserving and improving the health of planet Earth and all who live here. This lifestyle embraces our personal environments, including our home, work and social environments as well as the planet as a whole.
Re-thinking environment and our future
Green technology is the application of the environmental expertise to conserve the natural environment and resources and to curb the negative impacts of human involvement. These solutions need to be socially equitable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound. These include the three R’s:
Reduce
Reducing or cut back in key area of ones life is one of the easiest ways to be a good environmental citizen.
Some of the most important resources you can reduce consumption of are:
Energy
Developing alternative renewable energies such as solar, wind, geothermal which help to reduce our dependence on non-renewable resources to power our lives.
Water Preservation
In many parts of the world, drinkable water is in very short supply. unless properly treated, every time a drop of water goes down the drain makes it unsuitable for consumption. Sewage treatments are important as they purify water in levels of its pollution.
Solid Waste
There is very little space available for solid waste disposal, and because landfills are so tightly packed, it takes a great deal of time for material to decompose. The easiest way to reduce solid waste is to reduce ones consumption of daily products.
Reuse
Reuse is simply the act of finding a alternate use for a product to prolong its life. Reuse is an important step after the step of reduction has been carried out to its best, but before you are ready to recycle.
It is a process that many of us already follow in our daily lives without realizing. The success of reuse lies in creativity. Reuse is preferable, but don’t dump your junk!
Recycling
Recycling is the process of taking a product at the end of its useful life, using all or part of it to make another product. It helps preserve natural resources from being depleted and reduces our waste sent to landfills
Check Your Carbon Footprint
The carbon footprint is the measure of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tons of CO2 equivalent. It is the impact our activities on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases generated in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. Avoid waste, keep public water public and cut down on your travel-related carbon emissions.