Aiding the environment should be a family endeavor that is shared between adults and kids. Saving the planet is, after all, part of ensuring that your children have a great life to look forward to in the future.
One way to help the planet is to eat more tofu. This is not a joke. Eating beef and chicken is taking a big toll on the Earth. A Cornell study showed that producing meat protein takes eight times the energy that producing vegetable protein does. Six percent of all greenhouse gases from producing this.
However there are drawbacks to this. A strict vegetarian diet requires careful planning in order to get all the iron, vitamin B12, and other nutrients your body needs. Still, even part-time vegetarianism pays off for the environment and your body. If you can explain why this is a good idea to the kids you might just get away with it – except when it is BBQ season and they start craving a hamburger.
Did you know that a single lawn mower can put out more pollution than 73 brand new hybrid cars?
If you’re already enthusiastic about better lawns and gardens, you may not mind burning calories and building up muscles in an effort to spare the air. It is time to stop using so many garden tools. Lawn mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers, are extremely eco-unfriendly, spewing an incredible amount of CO2 into the air. In a single day, southern California’s lawn tools do more to pollute the air than every airplane in Los Angeles.
The answer is using push mowers. You can dispense with the leaf blower by using a simple broom and rake. Or, you can ditch the power hedger and get intimate with your plants by using a pair of pruning scissors.
If you are like most people you probably feel like you cannot do without a shower. If your household is like most, heating water accounts for 20 per cent of your electric bill each month. But you don’t have to ruin your life with shorter showers or cold plunges. Below are some baby steps to curb your water heater’s appetite for electricity.