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Earth Day Resolutions

Ruchira Shah | Wednesday 22nd April 2009

There's a lot of debate recently as to whether Earth Day is meaningful or not. But, recently I realized that none of that debate really matters. Instead, I should ask myself, "How can I make Earth Day meaningul for me?"

To that end, I've decided to make a few, fairly simple Earth Day resolutions in areas where my personal commitment has been a little lacking:

1) Carry my reusable mug with me at ALL times. There's no real excuse for my wasteful consumption of disposable cups. I have a reusable mug, I just need to use it more.

2) Cook a big meal at least once a week. I've been eating prepared foods too often, which means that I don't know where my food is coming from or how it was prepared, and I also have a lot of extra packaging in my trash. Not good.

3) Cut down to three sodas a week. It's exam season, and I'm stressed and sodas are comforting. But they're also terrible for me and the environment and I have to stop drinking so much of them.

Those are my Earth Day Resolutions. What about you? Are you making any today?

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Cecilie Helm 22 April 2009

Hmm, I already bike, walk or take the bus, I almost never use disposable cups, never eat prepared foods, and almost always cook at home, and for soda, I only occasionally use tonic in my gin :-)

But I need to find a water filter for my water tap, so I can stop buying bottled water for my coffee which is a waste of plastic bottles, and I'd like to find a shower head that uses less water, but I haven't seen any.

I wish i could afford low energy appliances (as I had in Denmark), but sadly that is not the case at this time, so in the meantime I stuff the freezer as I heard that is the most energy effective, I pack the fridge less for the same reason, stuff the dish washer and mostly use cold water in my washing machine.

And I wish I could recycle more. It's hard for me to understand that in WA highly polluting energy light bulbs just go in regular trash. In Denmark, where I'm from, they are considered so poisonous that you have to deliver them at a special place for toxic waste. The same with lids - why not reuse both container/bottle AND lid? (as in Denmark) And batteries don't seem to have their own trash container either here in WA.