Your lifestyle is the way that you live, and that includes everything from how you get around and interact with people to the way that you shop and consume food. It takes knowledge about the environment and how to sustain it, as well as a desire to change your old habits and attitudes, to live a happy and healthy eco-lifestyle.
Recently, we saw the Plastiki – a sailboat made out of 12,500 plastic bottles – complete its 15,000 km journey from San Francisco to Sydney. The publicity surrounding this event has been used to highlight the perils facing the oceans and one of them is plastic waste.
Everyone is looking to save a buck or two these days… but saving some time wouldn’t be too bad either. Advertising a green campus while keeping up with your classes and lifestyle can be a challenge, but here are 5 eco friendly living tips that will shave off a few dollars – and a few hours – from your hectic life.
According to the National Geographic documentary Human Footprint, Americans consume about 989,985,594,240 half gallons of milk over the course of a lifetime. This is good news because it shows that we are staying healthy by consuming milk, but it’s also bad news because it means we are creating more waste when we throw these plastic milk jugs away.
Most people cringe at the word diet, but no matter if you’re a struggling senior with a budget only for Ramen Noodles, or a senior trying to make the world a little better for your grandkids, these five (and a half) eco-friendly diets will help not only your waistline go down, but your carbon footprint as well.
Becoming eco-friendly in the world today is gaining in popularity in every age group. Making the choice to buy organic and bio-friendly products can be costly, which is not always an easy option for starving college students. Be the hero, and show the campus how to be Earth conscious with these green campus savvy tips.
Those amazing fruits we call pumpkins are the staple for the Halloween holiday season. They create family bonding times during the carving, and set a spooky yet fun atmosphere on your stoop when trick-or-treaters come knocking on your door. But what to do after the witch’s hats have been put up and the candy eaten? Pumpkins can be reused in a lot of ways that are friendly to the enviornment, your body and your home.
Who doesn’t love a nice, comfortable pair of flip flops?
The summer is almost here, so flip flops are the perfect shoes for guys to wear with shorts and a t-shirt, or for ladies to make a fashion statement in a cool summer dress.
One way you can sport flip flops while also saving the environment is to purchase recycled flip flops…
We’ve all heard about foreign exchange programs that let you stay with families from other countries, but have you ever heard of an organic farm exchange program?
Well that’s exactly what WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) is: a program that gives hosts a chance to share their organic farming experience with volunteers and allows volunteers to help hosts with daily organic farming activities…
With all the information out there about green living, it’s hard to know what exactly you can do as a student to make your life green. It’s hard to use organic toilet paper when you’re living on a budget, and you can’t necessarily tell your university you want all the dorm furniture to be recycled.
Learning how to live an eco lifestyle is an enlightening process that may take months to get the hang of. Learning how to be money-savvy while taking part of green living might take even longer than that. Part of an eco lifestyle is eating healthy, using green transportation when possible, participating in green efforts, and saving energy in any and every way possible.
