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Easier Than You Think: Top Ten Tips

Going green can seem like the new religion, maybe it is, like religions it has ’rules'and like all religions, these rules can vary from extremely strict to positive guidelines to living an ethical lifestyle. As somebody who has been involved in the environmental movement, I think the best way forward is to make some clear shifts in the way we live our daily lives.

1. travel slow: change the way you schedule your day, your weekend and your holidays, so you don’t need to make quick trips and you won’t need to use cars and airplanes.
2. travel with others: understand that travelling alone is decadence, like eating a triple rich chocolate fudge ice cream sundae. If you do it regularly you will be unhealthy and obese. As a way of life use public transportation of any sort. And if you are a lone cyclist, support public transport because it will take those pesky cars off of the road.
3. throw out your electric kettle: just throw it out, enough said.
4. eat with the seasons: we don’t need strawberries in the winter, eating with the seasons, inherently reduces the need for air freighting and storage.
5. eat low on the food chain: foods closest to their natural state take less energy to produce, I hate to suggest it, but rice instead of pasta, and fresh vegetables, instead of tinned bins reduces the need for factories to supply our everyday needs.
6. eat local: whenever you have a chance choose foods that are grown, raised, or produced as close as possible to where you live
7. become an activist: write letters and encourage your friends and family to take a stand on ethical issues
8. become part of a re-using network: make friends who have children both younger and older than yours so passing things on is a natural part of your life style.
9. take direct action: protest local polluters, help shut down a power plant, there is nothing more empowering
10. share: news, education, information, surplus resources, food, childcare, your refrigerator, it helps breakdown the mind set that created the environmental catastrophe in the first place

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