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Ecological Footprint - Tips

Yesterday evening I calculated my ecological footprint and i was a little shocked.
Immediately I started writing things to do so my footprint will hopefully shrink.
If you also want to know what your footprint on this earth is, go to http://wwf.panda.org/how_you_can_help/live_green/footprint_calculator/ and choose a calculator.

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I give some ideas to let your footprint shrink:

- refuse advertising, stop subscriptions of advertising of supermarkets (you can call, write or mail them)
- choose for green energy
- recycle as much as possible: print paper, toilet paper, water... maybe you can instal a cistern to flush the toilet?
- take showers instead of baths (this is a hard one for me)
- for short distances (<5km): walk or cycle
- share your car if possible, drive ecofriendly
(see a lot of tips: http://technorati.com/lifestyle/green/article/eco-friendly-driving-tips/ ), don't use/ use less airconditioning in your car
- prefer to switch of devices instead of turning them on stand-by
- switch of the heating in your house/ school/ work place, half an hour before you leave

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A lot of work to do, things to think about...

But don't panic, go organic!

:-)

And keep breathing, if we are aware and do our best, it's going to be okay.

Veggietriangle

I am eating meatfree since a month,

because lately I started realising that everytime there was a piece of meat on my plate, 

it was a dead animal.

I'm still searching for a good balance between all those nutrients.

In Gent there is this project to encourage all the inhabitants to eat vegeterian on thursday.

Only one day of avoiding meat is a big difference for the lives animals.

My biggest point is that most of the slaughtered animals have not have a worthy live and have been killed cruelly.

If you had to kill the animals yourself, I bet your appetite would dissapear.

I wish people are aware of that.

In my opinion, if you really like meat, eat biological cultivated meat.

But with an awareness that it's an aminal killed for your appetite.

Let my words be supported by the words of one of the world's best writers, Leo Tolstoj:

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food;

therefore, if he eats meat,

he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."

And Albert Einstein!

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature.

If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, i

t can change the destiny of humankind."

Leonardo... Leonardo da Vinci...

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat,

and the time will come

when men such as I

will look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon the murder of men."

The last one I citate is George Bernard Shaw

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."

If you know good recipes,

 any advice about what important, 

very welcome!

Have a beautiful day.

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Pajottenlander

Werkelijk heerlijk fruitsap! Vers geperst sap van biologisch hoogstamfruit helemaal uit België.
Ook het enige fruitsap waar ik geen last bij krijg in mijn buik (behalve oxfamsapjes).

Dit jaar wordt het bedrijf 25 jaar en gaat er een fotowedstrijd door, waarbij je jouw gewicht in sap kan winnen, misschien doe ik wel mee... Inspiratie..... denk denk.