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 Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:18 pm
What environmentally friendly consumer choices do you make?
Some ethical ideas I came up with are:
Local produce, organic, free from animal ingredients, less packaging, GM Free, Fair Trade, recycled, recyclable, re-useable. etc.
It's pretty hard to fufil all criteria at once, so it's often a case of having to prioritise.
For example, I'd prefer to have both local and organic food but if it's a choice between local but non-organic or organic food which has been flown half way around the world to get to me (massive CO2 emissions) I'd choose the local stuff.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:28 pm
All my food is animal free and I buy recycled toilet rolls and computer paper.
I don't shop at supermarkets any more and try to get local produce from the nearby shops. There's no organic food sold anywhere in the town where I live though and not a great deal from local producers - which is annoying sad
So on an environmental scale I could probably do a bit better! A few months ago my boyfriend and I were allocated an allotment, so next spring we should be able to start growing our own organic vegetables.
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:51 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:24 am
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Le Aristocrat Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:05 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:27 am
I think he was being sarcastic... My family grow alot of fruit and vegetables in our garden so we know the are 100% organic and very local. We also have a compost heap which we use in the garden for the plants. We have chickens from which we get free range, organic, GM free, from-happy-chicken eggs. We try to recyle whenever we can and buy recycled toilet paper etc...
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:43 am
I walk^_^ We always buy organic foods and we have three bins; one for plastic, one for organic stuff and the other for paper and cardboard and the like. I think we do quite well without taking it too far.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:23 pm
~Rainbow Coloured Starz~ I think he was being sarcastic... My family grow alot of fruit and vegetables in our garden so we know the are 100% organic and very local. We also have a compost heap which we use in the garden for the plants. We have chickens from which we get free range, organic, GM free, from-happy-chicken eggs. We try to recyle whenever we can and buy recycled toilet paper etc... Cool - I love chickens biggrin , we used to have some but they died (they were old) My Dad is soon going to get some more from a place nearby that rescues chickens from battery farms. His girlfriend has a large garden so they should be very happy and free-range there.
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:42 pm
Badgerkin ~Rainbow Coloured Starz~ I think he was being sarcastic... My family grow alot of fruit and vegetables in our garden so we know the are 100% organic and very local. We also have a compost heap which we use in the garden for the plants. We have chickens from which we get free range, organic, GM free, from-happy-chicken eggs. We try to recyle whenever we can and buy recycled toilet paper etc... Cool - I love chickens biggrin , we used to have some but they died (they were old) My Dad is soon going to get some more from a place nearby that rescues chickens from battery farms. His girlfriend has a large garden so they should be very happy and free-range there. Nice. The cockerel we got was quite fat when we got him, but now he is less so because he has space to run around in. I think where he was before was rather cramped. We called him lucky. He has a very bad attitude though. He sometimes goes for you, but only when your back is turned. Very cowardly, hehe.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:00 am
I would love to have chickens but my garden isn't big enough, so we go to a small place in the woods near us with happy free range chickens, and buy our eggs there...
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Le Aristocrat Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:14 am
donnythephoenix I would love to have chickens but my garden isn't big enough, so we go to a small place in the woods near us with happy free range chickens, and buy our eggs there... Same. My mother really wants to have chickens but our garden isn't very big either. My friend has lots of chickens though! They're cute, if slightly neurotic...
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:38 pm
Grow vegetable patches and avoid plastic, styro and the like. I also know a local store in where almost everything they sell is recycled...
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:52 am
i have a pet rabbit but it doesnt lay eggs, give us cheese and milk or meat....because its fat! and wonderful! ^.^
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:12 am
It's hard when you have little or no money, but we do the best we can around my place. I buy only organic milk and free range eggs (no hormones or pesticides) I buy as much local ORGANIC produce as possible. I have been a vegitarian for 6 years. I try to buy units of food, rather then individually packaged food and when possible I try to recycle as much as possible.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:56 pm
Titania Von Doom i have a pet rabbit but it doesnt lay eggs, give us cheese and milk or meat....because its fat! and wonderful! ^.^ LOL Ella! Your rabbit just eats and poops basically then?
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