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Reducing Our Consumption of Animals Is Our Last Shot At Saving Earth
Stop eating meat and dairy: it's an unpopular directive. Browse any Facebook groups for five minutes and you're likely to come across multiple cringeworthy memes about veganism and vegetarianism. Where I come from in the southern region of the U.S., fried chicken and grilling out is a way of life. Only 14% of the world population identifies as vegan or vegetarian...and while that is up from other years, that means that 86% of the world population has likely grown up consuming animal products. And that's a hard habit to break.
L.A. HancockPublished 3 years ago in EarthThe Recycling Industry is TRASH
You've gathered a trove of plastic this week. Triumphantly, you parade over to your blue bin and plop it inside with a satisfying thwack. You dust your hands and pat yourself on the back - you're a good person; you care enough to recycle.
Olivia L. DobbsPublished 3 years ago in EarthProtecting Our Waters & Environment
My husband's Aunt, as the oldest sibling of her generation in the family, outlived all of her four sisters and brothers, so she is now the matriarch of the family... she's like 97 now I believe. So I do my part in helping to take care of her since she lives about two miles away. The last time I did grocery shopping for her I realized I forgot to pick up the old, body weight scale she gave me a few visits prior. I very willingly accepted it, because she said she wants to start lessening her load of material items in her home, and it seemed very well made; and when it comes to older, true quality products, I am definitely not a part of the throw-away society, just because it is not modern.
Shakeenah K FentisPublished 3 years ago in EarthRussian Fashionista Finds Inspiration in American Thrift Stores
I grew up in Russia in the ‘70s. I remember the Soviet era stores. What was on the racks was dreadful, dull and dowdy. Not for me — the ambitious fashionista.
Irina PattersonPublished 3 years ago in EarthArtists can do better
There's something hugely exciting about a newly purchased sketchbook. It seems to offer unlimited hope and potential, opportunities and exploration. But all too often the pristine white pages of a new sketchbook stay exactly that way, often for months and even years, as the unused sketchbook gets added to the ever-increasing pile of other unused art supplies. As an emerging artist, I understand the deep need for my art supplies to become my closest companion and to be employed regularly to record, interact with, and document the world around me. I know undeniably that they are my best friend and faithful ally in providing the self care, mind distraction and creative expression my heart yearns for; but more often than I would care to mention, my stacks of unused art supplies have become elements of excessive clutter and unnecessary consumerism.
Monique GreenPublished 3 years ago in EarthHow to talk our way out of it
For me, it's extremely frustrating to think that, for every positive action I make to reduce my own impact, someone out there is turning it into, well, a farce. Some days, this gets to me more than others.
Rachel ThomPublished 3 years ago in EarthWhy I'm Quitting Avocados
Millennial woman loves avocados: sounds like a headline from the Onion. But I really, really do love them. I didn’t eat avocados every day, but on the days when I didn’t, they were sitting in my fruit bowl waiting to ripen. Just thinking of them makes my mouth water; the buttery taste, the squishy green flesh, the creamy splendour of the really good ones. And yet, despite what could perhaps be described as an obsession with the little green beauty, last year I concluded that I have to give them up. Yes, with a very heavy heart, I cancelled avocados.
Jenifer NimPublished 3 years ago in EarthMy GUPPYFRIEND
Finding ways to keep the earth clean and ways to stop the ozone layer from deteriorating has been important to me since the moment I dropped my iPod into the recycling liquids bucket in sixth grade. To be honest, it was not because my Apple product failed due to sticky mixed liquids but because the bucket was so full of liquids after children had not finished their juice or milk, only threw the plastic into the bin. I did not realize the impact that wish-recycling has on the recycling process but I ensured to finish my beverages from that day forward as I was disgusted.
Tia HendricksPublished 3 years ago in EarthChange Within to Change What Is Without
I just bought a box of delicious kumquats, of the yielding of our small world. What’s going on with our world everyone? It’s working overtime for us while being contaminated. How can we let this happen to our world? We must change within to get this right. Let me explain what I’m trying to convey. It’s time to love our beautiful world; not in part, but in whole. I must interject this thought about what’s going on with our oceans. On the afterhours news I saw garbage patches taking up more space than should be allowed. Each year millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean, after flowing from river channels. Several portions of this plastic flows into the ocean and develops huge garbage patches. This junk gets stuck in the vortex of our ocean’s currents. Garbage patches will eventually outweigh all of the ocean’s fish, if we don’t make a change soon; and the largest — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — includes an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash and covers an area twice the size of Texas.
Jessica GranadosPublished 3 years ago in EarthBodies Of Water
My first step toward making waves of transformation was a scary one. I listened to my heart pound every night like the rhythm of the waves crashing violently on the beach as I lay in bed anticipating my new life adventure and leaving behind my old life as a carpenter and a painter. I began to recognize through the years, that this feeling was my aliveness coming to get me like a swinging trapeze bar, according to Danaan Parry in Warriors of the Heart.
Arieal Pearl HealyPublished 3 years ago in EarthA Vegan's Guide to Sushi
It seems like everyone is talking about the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy lately. In case you haven't seen it, I will spare you the doom with this very simple summary and call to action:
Baby Steps
We’re all aware, aren’t we? We know that our earth has been dissipating for over 10 years, everyone talks about it, but why haven’t we done anything?
Riley KinsellaPublished 3 years ago in Earth