Reducing Our footprint, Giving Back and Loving Our Planet Simply

 Here is a few questions to ask about how YOU are impacting in a negative way.....

Ask yourself, which of these options is better?

1. Grey water - this is from sinks and showers - is it better to send it to a treatment facility that loads it with chemicals and then dumps it into our rivers OR use it for gardens, trees, watering lawns etc......

2. Black water - this is what is produced by toilets...... Is it better to send it to treatment plants that load it with chemicals and then dump it into our rivers OR learn how to properly compost it????? 150 years ago the waste from outhouses was what we used for fertilizer...... Since we have stopped that practice NOW we are loading our fields with artificial fertilizers that make people and animals sick!! So which is better?

3. Reduce - we produce so much unnecessary waste from extra packaging - things that will NEVER decompose in landfills...... So reduce the types of items purchased in that type of packaging!!

4. Reuse - is it better to send tons of trash to a landfill where all they do is crush and bury it - then pipe off the methane it produces OR find ways to reuse items in a friendly way? Empty pet food bags can become sand bags (Instead of waiting for the storm then never having enough bags to save your home)..... Use them to haul bulk feed from the feed store - some stores give discounts if you bring your own feed bags! Cardboard boxes (we get tons of them with every online order) - compost them instead of sending them to landfills! The composted cardboard is EXCELLENT garden mulch!! Research how plastic water bottles are recycled - it will sicken you! Try to use refillable bottles as much as possible and the "disposable" ones are great to fill, freeze and use for the pets on hot days!!!! Get creative with how to reuse items that would normally go to a landfill and only sit there for thousands of years (contaminating everything around it).

5. Recycle - MANY things can be recycled instead of ending up in a landfill. Look it up! Be sure to refer above before jumping to this resort because the USA recycling process is beyond disgusting AND contaminates other countries land, people and water supply! 

Go full solar, use wind as a back up. Switch from electric cooking to propane or natural gas. The elements in an electric stove are far more toxic that either type of gas - look it up! 

How can YOU live more sustainably? Each of us has contributed to the "global warming" problem. No government or regulations are going to fix it - all they want to do is create more revenue to claim to throw at the problem, but the only thing that ever happens is more non profits pop up and NOTHING ever gets done in the way of an actual solution. Nothing ever will, until each of us takes steps to change some of the things we do every day!

So, look around your home and challenge yourself TODAY to see what baby steps you can take to make a dent in this problem!!!

And look up how sending things to landfills has a very negative effect on everything around that landfill. Why would you send things that are labeled TOXIC to a landfill to contaminate the land for thousands of years? AND the water table beneath that landfill!!!!!!