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🌲🌿 Being A Green Student 🌿🌲
Hello my studious friends! I’ve decided I’d (finally) make the green student guide that I’ve been promising forever. Here you’ll find a handy list of ways you can stay environmentally conscious while hitting the books. Feel free to pick a choose what suggestions work best for you and your lifestyle. Again, these are purely suggestions, but I really recommend adopting as many as you can. All of us, especially those in the traditionally “western” nations with outrageous carbon footprints (aka America and many parts of Europe), need to start thinking about how we impact our planet in our daily lives. It’s the only one we have. At first, these suggestions may seem excessive or strange, but I promise, after a week or two, they’ll feel like second nature. So, I hope you take up these tips, and enjoy my guide to be a greener student!
Disclaimer: I understand that being green can be expensive, with little reward besides a cleaner lifestyle and conscious. I’m a financially impaired student, just like many of you. I’m not one to go around attacking people for not trying to be sustainable, just passing along tips I’ve picked up. That said, most of these tips can be modified, with a dash of creativity, to fit your monetary needs. And, obviously, I’m not saying that if you’re struggling to feed yourself you should go drop all your money on recycled notebooks, because that would be ridiculous.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb (via earthlingmag)
I just started using reusable bamboo pads as another small step to reducing my waste. If you use cotton pads, I recommend investing in reusable ones. Like most things, we don’t realize how much waste they produce. When you factor in the packaging they come in, plus using them once every day or two, the waste adds up. Not to mention the energy it takes to produce them. These are from Marleys Monsters and they’re great!
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Is it just me or has anyone else recently noticed more people and mainstream media are talking more about climate change? Are more people FINALLY realizing this is a serious issue and the state of the future is at risk?
Daily reminder that companies litter and pollute 100 times more than any one person and we should shame them daily.
I’m just so terrified that my children will never be able to experience nature as it is with all the animals and diversity and plants and insects and forests and snow because this generation didn’t wake up.
not to get all fake deep about the state of manufacturing rn but a piece of a plastic bottle is literally gonna outlive the memory of us by dozens of generations
Composting questions? We have answers
frankly? ban all plastics. require all public buildings to be solar powered. public community gardens in every neighborhood. ban all pesticides. ban fossil fuels. put wind turbines on every sky scraper. gardens on every rooftop. tax cars and fund public transportation. build bike lanes across every city. train/railroad infrastructure across the country (tear down highways). every state mandated to have a certain percentage of land be a wildlife preserve. local/organic farms get huge tax breaks. raise the minimum wage. aquaponics farms in every city. every family has chickens in their backyard. community composting. jeff bezos’s body for fertilizer. i have a clear idea of what i want the world to look like and i want it now. hire me
Today I harvested some radishes, planted a hopeful courgette, some beetroot, and harlequin carrots 🥕
Living on a self-sustaining farm where you wake up at dawn to do manual labor until well into the afternoon sounds extremely appealing, actually
Zero Waste Kitchen 🥕
I always make a point to buy carrots plastic bag free at the grocery store. It is a more expensive option, but I budget so I can make decisions like this. Then I store them in a jar with water so they don’t get all bendy and go bad sooner.
Image via/from the London UK School Strike
Why did I decide to use bamboo toothbrushes?
I’m reducing the use of plastic at home
Bamboo handles are naturally antimicrobial and biodegradable
They are as effective as plastic and electric toothbrushes
They are organic while having good quality and design
Plastic toothbrushes are really difficult to recycle
All plastic toothbrushes you ever used are still out there!
Good reasons to get mad at a vegan:
-they implied everyone can/should be vegan, ignoring issues of poverty & health that make it impractical or impossible for many people
-they tried to make you feel bad about eating something
-they believe that the current animal abuse/environmental contamination/health crisis is caused by individual consumers rather than the manipulative capitalism of the meat and dairy industries
-they support PETA (eww peta)
Bad reasons to get mad at a vegan:
-they asked you about the ingredients of a food to find out if they can eat it
-they asked if your group could go to a restaurant with a vegan option
-you asked them to explain why they are vegan and they answered
-they got mad when you made fun of their diet
i just love how by being vegan i am helping mother earth a little bit every day with every meal i take <3
low waste walmart grocery haul :)
If ur highkey pissed off that eco-activism is constantly written off as reefer hippie bullshit so much so that even the lower class, who would normally benefit from it, are willing to push this false narrative of giving a fuck about the earth being bad or embarassing, all because the capitalists who brainwash them would sooner watch it die than lose a single dollar, and it all makes you sick to your fucking stomach, clap your hands
HANDMADE VEGAN BAR SOAPS
solving Climate Change is like a high school Group Project except with 7 billion people
here is your gentle reminder that there are dandelions growing through cracks in the sidewalk. there is a fence lizard on the porch who is growing a new tail. there are trees growing through an abandoned house, branches tearing through the ceiling, ferns carpeting the floor. there is life pushing forward, pushing through.
i love seeing how me being vegan is changing the habits of people around me. and i dont just mean people going vegetarian/vegan. just the little things. like how for his birthday my little brother wanted vegan pancakes because he thinks they’re the best. or my mom only eating vegetarian at her work cafeteria. or my dad asking me how to make vegan parmesan.
my veganism has a real and tangible impact on those around me and that gives me so much hope and joy
What is needed are ecosystems that are designed to produce our food, fuel, animal feed, medicine and fibers, and ecosystems that can do so without the use of fossil fuel technology, those that can tolerate extremes of weather and potentially changing climates, and that can thrive without supplemental irrigation from vulnerable and increasingly expensive public utilities.
Restoration Agriculture: Real World Permaculture for Farmers - Mark Shepard (via postciv)
little snail!!
Guide to Zero Waste as a college student.
I know. Just the thought of it made me scared. When I first started a year ago, I dived head first and told myself if I didn’t start now, I would never start. It didn’t matter if I would make a mistake, I had to start and then learn from my mistakes.
Boi did I make a lot of mistakes. But I learned. Here are some steps you can take to become zero waste.
1. Look at your trash.
What is in there? Plastic bottles? Straws? Jars? Wrappers? Foam containers of that one take away? Take a look at your trash and determine why you are producing that amount of trash.
2. Plan.
After figuring out what’s in your trash think about what you can do to stop making it. I like to guide myself with these three questions:
Do I really need this in my life? If not, then it is a good time to stop buying/ using said thing.
If I do need it, is there an eco-friendly alternative? Do they sell it or should I look for a DIY-option? The important thing is not to get stuck just because you can’t get it!
What habits can I adapt to make transitioning easier for me?
3. Set goals.
At first, I dived right into it. Which was probably not the best option. After some months I realized it would be better if I took one step at a time. Goals are a good way to get you there but the only way goals can actually work is of they are smart. These are some of the goals I had when I started.
Every day I must fill my reusable water bottle and take it everywhere with me. I am not allowed to drink from any plastic cups, straws any other form of packaging that is recyclable but not necessarily reusable.
Every day I must go out with my reusable straw and my utensils. In order not to forget them, I have to always keep a pair on each of my bags.
4. Keep track.
I will admit: I am not perfect. But keeping tracks of what I do with zero waste helps me see what I can do better. And that’s what this movement is. What can we do to get a bit closer to producing no waste? Some people get discouraged but this personally encourages me to work harder.
So are you planning on becoming zero waste? Are you already part of the movement? Let me know!
-Shirou