It's The Small Things...

It is the small things that can make a difference to helping our environment recover from the excessive damage we have caused to this beautiful planet of ours. If we can't change our behaviour in small ways how will we learn to adapt to the big changes that we have no control over (like running out of oil for example).

The Three R's

Sorry about the wait peps, as you can tell from the title this post is about "Reduce, Reuse & Recycle". This phase came around about 30 years ago when the "epa" (The Environmental Protection Agency) first started to look into harmful waste and what to do with it. The three R's are in order of effectiveness, reducing has more impact than reusing and reusing has more of an impact than recycling.

Shame On You McDonalds!

As a part-time crew member at a McDonald's restaurant in Britain for just over a year I have been noticing the insane amount of plastic that our store goes through (and we are a very small store, about 60 staff) but that is not what gets to me, it is the fact that it is just chucked into the bins and not recycled.

Carbon Footprint, What Is It?

A carbon footprint is basically how much Co2 (carbon) you pollutate this plant with, the lower it is the better for both your walletand our environment.

The majority of people know about what a carbon footprint is but fail to know how big theirs is. Your carbon footprint takes many things into account things like how often you go to the doctors, to what you eat and how much you travel.

The following is a breakdown of my footprint:

How To Be More Green!

Whether you are a Eco warrior or you just want to be more green then you may find these tips helpful in your bid to be more green, lower your carbon footprint and to be less harmful to the environment.

 ~ Don't waste food. In order for the food to get on the shelves in the supermarket, it has to be grown, processed, flown and then driven to your local supermarket, all of which would use chemicals to fertilise (if it is a plant based food) and then a load (and I mean loads) of oil just to get to the supermarket.