How Can YOU Help The Environment?
Have you ever wondered how you could help leave the earth a better place? Well there's many ways such as eating sustainably , reducing your energy consumption and waste, planting native plants to your region, and many other ways. "How?' You ask. Don't worry its easy and quick to adapt to.
Planting NativesPlanting native plants in your lawn helps the environment but also makes your life easier. When we plant the plants that aren't native to our area, we increase the amount of fertilizers we use which leads to eutrophication. ( Eutrophication is the enrichment of an ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both. This leads to a limited amount of dissolved oxygen for the organisms and leads to their death.) When we switch to native plants we reduce the amount of use of fertilizers which helps the environment and our pockets. Along with using less fertilizers, it uses less time to take care of and has been linked to lower cancer rates in the neighborhoods with native plants.
Eating LocalIn order to go the extra mile, along with certified organic foods, local foods help your community and your health thrive. Eating locally allows the consumer to eat products that can be grown in the area. Local foods provide seasonal changes, more nutrients, safe food supply, benefits the environment and economy.
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Eating OrganicIt's good for you AND the environment. "Why?" You ask. I'll tell you why!!
Through the popular use of monocultures and their subsidies, (Monocultures are when a person dedicates themselves to only growing one crop. A subsidy is when the government makes the crop worth less so there are incentives for the grower.) farmers have become heavily relied on pesticides, which cause the foods we eat to have many chemicals. If you switch to Certified Organic you are assured that the food is GMO free, sewage sludge free, irradiation free and growth hormone free. Reduce, Reuse, RecycleThe three arrows in the logo stand for reduce, reuse recycle, not just recycle. In order to fully benefit the environment one must participate in all three steps. Recycling isn't as beneficial as people assume, although it does help it is not enough. Recycling means having to reprocess things such as paper and aluminum and it doesn't provide the same quality that is needed.
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