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WE NEED TO SAVE THE LORAX (2012) FROM BEING REMOVED FROM NETFLIX!!!!!!
Everyone needs to start watching the Lorax on Netflix like crazy!
Reblog and repost this to keep the chain going!
UPDATE ON THE LORAX
WE DID NOT SAVE IT FROM BEING TAKEN OFF NETFLIX
The last day to watch it is August 1st
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Help save the planet, it’s our responsibility as individuals.
Easy-ish Ways to Help The Planet For Free or Cheap
I’m aiming to make sure everything on this list is either free, very cheap or saves you money in the long run. I also don’t want to include anything that requires owning a house because this is 2017 and we’re all millennials here
Cheap/Financially Beneficial:
You’ve heard this one before but if you menstruate, buy reusable products. The average person uses tens of thousands of pads and tampons in their menstruating life, which is not only wasteful but expensive.
If you wear makeup, use cloth pads instead of disposable wipes. You can even make your own makeup remover using olive or coconut oil and water.
The same goes for cleaning supplies: use washable cloths and for extra brownie points buy non toxic or eco cleaning supplies such as Ecover brand supplies or castille soap.
Buy bar soaps in paper instead of gels in plastic bottles. It’s usually as cheap if not cheaper, although it’s harder to find bar face soaps.
Support local small businesses!
Try indulging your online shopping cravings and/or doing some groceries on EthicalSuperstore.com or EthicalShop.org if you’re in the british isles. If anyone knows any equivalents in the USA or anywhere else please add it below!
If you have bulk stores nearby, bring your own containers and buy unpackaged bulk items.
If you can use public transport to get somewhere, always choose this over using your car. Try to nurture a ‘driving is my last resort’ mentality.
If you’re planning a holiday (lucky you!) consider exploring the beauty spots in your own country instead of going abroad to avoid air travel. I know you want to be ‘cultured’, but why not get to know your own culture a little better? Plus, the tourist industry can often be really damaging to some beautiful countries.
Buy a stainless steel reusable water bottle and stop buying bottled water if your tap water is drinkable. If it isn’t, look into filters.
Replace some of your meat with meat-free alternatives and/or try to eat less meat. Regardless of your stance on animal rights, livestock farming is bad for climate change.
Loan $25 to small business owners struggling with poverty all over the world with Kiva.com. Not only is a $25 microloan fairly affordable when it comes to potentially pulling someone out of poverty, but if and when they start earning, they’ll pay you back! And the site pays your second loan for free! Plus you can claim to be an investor on your CV. Look out for causes where a lender is matching your donations to make maximum impact.
Watch documentaries (legally) to support people who are spreading the word/doing something about issues, and to educate yourself and get more ideas on how to help.
Stop buying new clothes and start buying vintage or second-hand. I’ll let you off for shoes an underwear.
Look for products in glass or metal not plastic. Not only are you more likely to reuse them, but they’re much easier to recycle and are more often made from recycled materials.
Buy metal safety razors and razorblades instead of disposable plastic ones.
Free:
Set Ecosia as your homepage and default search engine. It’s a search engine that uses its profits to plant trees! You plant about one tree every forty searches
For both the planet and the people, go to GreaterGood.com and click a button to donate to a different cause on each tab. You can do it once a day.
Recycle. Even if they don’t have home collection where you live, there should at least be a collection point you can go to.
Don’t throw away empty jars and bottles. Use them to fill with other things, especially homemade food, drink and toiletries.
Use your vote to support politicians, locally and nationally, who prioritise the environment.
Share your eco-doings on social media. Give local small businesses a shout-out by by posting pics of your delicious meal or pretty soap and tagging them, or let people know that you took your old furniture to the recycling place at [address].
Get new furniture from Freecycle or similar sites to save money, prevent those things from going to landfill, and avoid using up new resources on new furniture. Also, donate your own old stuff.
If you have free time, try volunteering. If you can’t commit to a regular shift, look for local beach cleans or similar events.
Watch YouTube videos by people living zero waste, low energy or eco-food lifestyles. You’re not only supporting them and spreading their message, you can pick up some tips. You don’t have to go vegan or zero waste or whatever, but just one or two changes can help. I recommend trashisfortossers especially as a starting point!
Stick seeds or roots of your vegetables into pots and grow your own vegetables from it. Some of these are super easy, some might need a bit more effort. Celery really takes off.
If you have the confidence, ask your boss if you can pitch some ideas on making your workplace/company more sustainable. If you hint that it could save money, they’ll probably go for it.
Turn the heat settings on your heating and hot water down. You don’t need your water scalding, and if it’s coming out cooler from the boiler, you need less cold water from the cold water tap.
Get wildflower seeds for free from Grow Wild and sprinkle them anywhere, be it your garden or a roadside verge (out of a car window, don’t walk on roadside verges).
Support your local park, library and other services that provide free stuff for the public. Libraries = less books being bought while still supporting writers, and parks = green spaces.
That’s all I can think of right now - I’ll add more if I think of more. Add your tips below!
Jack is doing a charity live stream on Jan 25th to help aid Australia, and it would be amazing if you would give your time or support to this dire cause.
Every donation counts! Sharing the donation link around would be greatly appreciated.
Love <3 Mother Earth!
Have we even noticed how fast the temperature is rising? For the last few days, the weather has been so unfavorable. People are feeling suffocated. But do we even acknowledge the reasons behind this condition? It's WE people and our unconscious and monstrous activities. We are destroying our Mother Earth. It is sounding terrible, right? Do we even think about the future of our dearest planet? The future of our future generation? How can we be soo selfish? It's time to CHANGE, Like for real. Trust me, it won't be too much difficult just to be eco-friendly. We can always try to avoid plastic and polythene as much as we can. For example: using jute or paper bags rather than polythene where you have options. Avoid drinking with straws. Turn off the lights, fans whenever not needed etc. etc. Do these small activities need much effort? NO. So, please let's think about it and try to change ourselves and hence change the environment. Be safe yourself and save others as well.
The environmental impact of oysters, in one photo
The water in both tanks came from the same source. The one on the right has bivalves. Not only do oysters naturally filter the waters in which they live, they can even protect humans from destructive hurricanes. For more, read about New York’s efforts to bring back oyster populations in the once-toxic Hudson River.
Delicious AND helpful. Who knew?
(photo via Steve Vilnit on Twitter)
The ONE gateway to the SOLUTION to the problems of humanity. (A.k.a. vlog attempt n2)
Hehe I put this filter that makes it slook so weird lol 😂 enjoy
Whether you want your health to be better, the social and hunger problems of the world to be over, to avoid future pandemics like this one from occurring, reduce smog emissions, soil depletion, environmental pollution and climate change, or you want to stop the inhumane cruelties happening to animals on a daily basis...there is an easy solution that will help immensely to tackle them all...(spoiler alert: a #wholefoodsplantbaseddiet and a plant based lifestyle)
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This THE solution that will lubricate and help the efficacy of all other solutions that need to be initiated. More on this in future posts (maybe)
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Okay, I don’t have many followers but I want to say something all the same. Right now? We’re living on a planet tht is slowly being destroyed and for some reason everyone is ignoring it.
It feels like no matter what we do, people are just going to see us as crazy, idiots, silly kids. I’m sick of it.
The Dakota pipeline at Standing Rock leaked GALLONS of oil. EXACTLY what everyone said it would do. But rich capitalists seem to have the crazy idea that they can continue to exploit the Earth and all the people with it with zero consequences. And that crazy idea is RIGHT. We MADE it right, WE buy the tech they produce, WE forget to boycott and WE are the ones that don’t make a big enough impact.
We aren’t the villains, but there’s no kid with superpowers to save this dystopian nightmare world. In this book, the uprising begins with us.
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Climate change is real (2019) - anna florsdefum
ES || Hojas con dibujos a acuarela de objetos de plástico de todo tipo para el proyecto animales de plástico.
EN || Watercolor drawings of plastic objects of all kinds for the project “plastic animals”
ES || Uno de los proyectos que se queda este año en el tintero son los animales de plástico. No sé si os acordareis pero hace un par de años hice una ilustración de una ballena llena de plásticos de un solo uso, de toda esa cantidad inimaginable de residuos innecesarios que generamos (sobretodo en estas fechas, con los regalos “inútiles”, los platos de usar y tirar, etc.) para la campaña de @byebyestraws . La idea era hacer una serie de animales marinos que sufren por culpa de estos residuos, pero llegaron nuevos proyectos y se fue quedando en el aire, este año lo retomé pero no he tenido tiempo de acabarlos así que tengo un montón de hojas con dibujos a acuarela de objetos de plástico de todo tipo… Yo al principio cuando pensaba en residuos plásticos pensaba en botellas y algunos envases más pero cuanto más me adentraba en el tema más alucinaba estaba de la cantidad de plástico que usamos en nuestro día a día, mucho del cual es evitable. Por unas navidades y una entrada de año mejores, generad menos residuos y reciclad todo lo que podáis!
EN || One of the projects that remains unfinished this year are the plastic animals. I don't know if you remember but a couple of years ago I made an illustration for @byebyestraws of a whale full of single-use plastics, of all the unimaginable amount of unnecessary waste that we generate (especially at this time of year, with the "useless" gifts, the single-use dishes, etc.). The idea was to make a series of marine animals that suffer from these residues, but I haven't had time to finish them so at the moment I’ve a lot of watercolor drawings of plastic objects of all kinds... At first, when I thought of plastic waste, I always thought of bottles and some other packaging, but the further I got into the subject, the more I was amazed at the amount of plastic we use in our day-to-day lives, much of which is avoidable. For a better Christmas and a better start to the year, generate less waste , reuse and recycle everything you can!
MAIG - calendari Montessori 2021 (2020) || MAYO - calendario Montessori 2021 (2020) || MAY - Montessori’s calendar 2021 (2020)
ESP || Este año parece que el tiempo se ha vuelto un poco loco, el cambio climático se nota más que nunca y aunque acabamos de entrar en el mes de marzo, ya hace semanas que hay días que parece que sea primavera! Ya se pueden ver abejorros revoleteando por las mañanas buscando las flores que han florecido pronto. Este invierno ha sido uno de los menos fríos desde hace años. Hay estudios que demuestran que muchas plantas, sobre todo los arboles frutales, han avanzado la floración, por ejemplo los albaricoqueros de Ribera d’Ebre que han avanzado la floración un mes, los melocotoneros de l’Ordal que se han avanzado entre 10 i 15 días o los aguacateros de Andalucía tres semanas. Todos estos cambios pueden tener repercusiones bastante graves en los ecosistemas ya que se puede dar el caso de perder las sincronización con los, muy necesitados y en peligro de desaparición, polinizadores. Aquí os dejo un pequeño detalle lleno de abejas y abejorros de una ilustración que hice el año pasado para el día de la abeja! ENG || This year it seems that the weather has gone a little crazy, climate change is more present than ever and although we have just entered March, for several weeks now there are days that seems we are in the middle of spring! In the morning you can see bumblebees flying and looking for some flowers that have bloomed early. This winter has been one of the hottest for years. Many studies show that a lot of plants, especially fruit trees, have advanced flowering, for example the apricot trees of Catalunya have advanced flowering one month, also in Catalunya, the peach trees, have advanced between 10 and 15 days and avocado trees in Andalucía have done the same by three weeks. All these changes can have quite serious repercussions on ecosystems since it may cause the lost of synchronization with pollinators which are in danger of extinction themselves. Here you can see a little close up, full of bees and bumblebees, of an illustration that I made last year for bee day!
CAT || Aquest any sembla que el temps s'ha tornat una mica boig, el canvi climàtic es nota més que mai i encara que acabem d'entrar al mes de març, ja fa setmanes que hi ha dies que sembla que sigui primavera! Ja es poden veure borinots volant als matins buscant les flors que han florit aviat. Aquest hivern ha estat un dels menys freds des de fa anys. Hi ha estudis que demostren que moltes plantes, sobretot els arbres fruiters, han avançat la floració, per exemple els albercoquers de Ribera d'Ebre que han avançat la floració un mes, els presseguers de l'Ordal que s'han avançat entre 10 i 15 dies o els aguacaters d'Andalusia tres setmanes. Tots aquests canvis poden tenir repercussions bastant greus en els ecosistemes ja que es pot donar el cas de perdre les sincronització amb els, molt necessitats i en perill d'extinció, pol·linitzadors. Aquí us deixo un petit detall ple de abelletes, borinots i papallones d'una il·lustració que vaig fer l'any passat per al dia de l'abella!