Doing Something.

I rather like this nutter!  Rob Greenfield is doing something positive in the world and I like it. While I am not up to living entirely as he does - well I have a child for a start... Its always good to see the more extreme things that can be done, and even he has a 12 easy things you can start doing straight away list.  Here it is.  Feel free to share;

1. Eat a whole-food, plant-based diet. Eat more veggies, fruits, grains, nuts, and less animal products.
2. Start riding a bike, walking, and using public transportation. Stop driving.
3. Go local. Eat local, shop local, play local.
4. Reduce-Reuse-Recycle – In that order. Recycling comes last! Trash sucks. Don’t make it!
5. Share! Share your stuff and share others’ stuff.
6. Buy less stuff and purchase used stuff when you can.
7. Conserve water and electricity. Just be conscious of your usage. There are 100’s of ways to cut back. Look it up.
8. Don’t use one-time-use anythings (bags, take out containers, bottled water, straws, napkins etc.)
9. Positive consumerism. Buy from businesses that are using business as a medium for positive change.
10. Simplify. The less you need, the easier it is to be friendly to our earth.
11. Be conscious. When you make decisions take into account where things come from and how they were produced. If you don’t know, then find out. Take action by putting the information you find to good use.
12. Live beyond yourself. How do your actions affect other humans, animals, and the earth? Make your decisions based on the well being of everyone and everything, not just you.
It’s a process to transform a lifestyle, but there is no time to wait. Start today. Start now!
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Inspired by this list, I am going to make an effort to use less of the one time use things that crop up in my life.  Can't promise to do it all the time,  but just a less approach will do me.  Reducing my 'trash'   - which means paying attention in the supermarket.

And I am seriously on the decluttering tip just now.  Using the brilliant Hanover Recycling scheme of putting stuff out on the street with a please take sign.  I managed to clear about 3 boxes of stuff.  I am left with some batteries which work and a bread board.  I will take the bread board to the charity shop.  We have a whole loft worth of gubbins that needs sorting and getting rid of.  Most of it is baby and kid stuff.  But not all.  A lot of it is packaging boxes, kept for..... I don't know really.  So that is going to go.  When I am back home next week a lot of sorting and getting rid of and recycling is going to be done.

I would like to shop more local too.  We have some great shops nearby and so I will walk to them to by fruit and veg and stuff.  I don't eat much meat, but the meat I buy will be from the local organic butchers.  And with this I will be buying from folk who are using business to make a difference in the world too. 

We already buy used stuff when we can.  I am proud to have -  pre-loved - a sofa, washing machine, dishwasher, cooker, front door, kitchen table, chairs, rugs, some clothes, guinea pig hutch, garden furniture, some beds etc.  Not everything we have is secondhand, but I think we have done pretty well.  If we do buy new from now on, I am going to buy the best and most long lasting of things.  if I can, of course.