Climate Crisis Solution #49: Stock Up/Stock Down
Submitted by Live Earth on 22 October, 2007 - 16:06
Recycled Paper Products -- One ton of recycled paper uses 17 fewer trees and 67% less energy than nonrecycled paper.
Vegetable-based, Biodegradable Cleaning Stuff -- If every American household used just one box of an eco-friendly powdered detergent instead of the petroleum-based kind, we'd save 217,000 barrels of oil a year -- that's about 90,000 tons of CO2.
Fair-Trade Shade-Grown Coffee -- Coffee grown in shade -- the traditional way -- preserves ecosystems that sequester some of the CO2 that is produced in making your morning pick-me-up.
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Hello, Did you see the humor
Hello,
Did you see the humor in the Live Earth website where in the upper right hand sice is your Buy Less Stuff message and on the far left is "LIVE EARTH MERCHANDISE and on the top bar is also a link for Things To Buy.
Years ago I went with ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin to live with the Tirio indians in Suriname. They live in thatched huts with dirt floors in the middle of a rainforest on a river. By our standards they had nothing but they were the happiest people I've ever met because they had COMMUNITY and they knew their place in the universe. I came home and pledged to stop buying 'stuff".
The bottom line, I think, is to buy MINDFULLY. To ask oneself, "Do I really need this"" and to curb one's driving, one's buying and one's using of resources as much as possible.
Lynne Cherry
Yes I did see that. And I
Yes I did see that. And I agree with you. Unfortunately for many people it would be hard to take your heartfelt advice because if someone doesn't experience or see it with their own eyes, it is very easy to forget.
I think you are absolutely
I think you are absolutely right! Our society is driven by the endless beat of Buy! Buy! Buy! It took me almost 25 years to realize the difference between what ! want vs. what I need.