Eye Opener: Ecological Footprint

When I was doing the carbon footprint quiz, I was extremely surprised at how much of my footprint consisted of service oriented causes. I find this matching the results from another quiz I took, which had a large percentage dedicated to my electricity use as the largest part of my footprint. I would really like to try and improve in this area, as it would definitely produce the most evident results. I try to take the bus and carpool as much as I can, and it definitely shows since a very small piece of the pie consists of mobility causes. I also believe food is somewhere I can improve on, as I could easily buy more locally grown and whole foods rather than processed and packaged foods at the grocery store.

According to the summary, if everyone consumed at the same rate as me it would take 4.3 Earths to provide an adequate amount of resources for the population. So lucky some people are more responsible than me, and I will work on being more responsible with my consumption to decrease my footprint as much as possible. My consumption rate is considerably higher than what Wikipedia states to be the average at 1.4 Earths.

There are some pretty clear ways I can adjust my footprint. Mainly I will work on controlling energy use. Beyond that I can basically eat more environmentally friend foods, and try to reduce vehicle use even more than I already do. These are steps I know I can take pretty easily without having to make any major adjustments to my life, so it is not unreasonable to make changes that will benefit the Earth.

Read 'n' Seed 1: Trash Talk

Hello readers! The book I selected to read for the Read 'n' Seed project is titled Trash Talk. This book will teach you ways to save your community and our Earth. It takes everyday items that you would usually throw away and gives you ideas to reuse them.

I chose this book because it clearly relates to the theme of my blog, which is preventing contamination. Reusing items conceived to be trash with prevent these items from being dumped into lakes, rivers, landfills, and further contaminating our environment and ecosystems.

If you proceed to click HERE I have provided the author's website, where you can learn more about them, their message, and what drives them to do what they do. HERE is a link to Amazon where you can read some of the reviews for the book. Additionally HERE is a link to Barnes and Noble where you may also read some reviews.

The book is 188 pages long and is divided up into four sections, which is how I will be breaking up my posts. I really look forward to learning lots of new information and sharing it with all of you so we can all work on our bad habits of instinctively throwing items away!