How to be Eco-Friendly in 2023
Five Eco-Friendly Hacks to Start Living a More Sustainable Life Today!
As awareness grows around the waste we consume, we still are left trying to find more Eco-friendly, sustainable uses for the things that end up in landfills everyday.
We here at A Boom Life believe that developing an awareness about the waste we consume daily is the biggest step towards a cleaner world. If you are reading this, then you’re ready to make some changes in the way you live on this planet.
That’s why we have Five Eco-Friendly Hacks to Start Living a More Sustainable Life Today!
1.Carry Your Own Water
Plastic bottles wreck havoc on our environment. With so much plastic ending up in our rivers, it all inevitably finds it’s way to the oceans where over time it becomes microplastics.
Fish and other sea creatures ingest the microplastics causing contamination of the ocean’s food chain.
Unfortunately, recycling plastic is just not the answer.
Eliminating the need for it on a consumer basis is what will truly help save our environment.
We now have the ability to create compostable vegetable-based “plastic” containers of all shapes and sizes.
But being aware of the companies that are making the Eco-friendly decisions will be equally as important in helping steer our society in the right direction.
Health Risk Associated with Plastic Use
Consuming water out of plastic bottles is what is link to various diseases and health risk.
Checkout these plastic bottles fact for The World Counts com. Plastic is listed as our #1 threat to our marine ecosystem. and there is even a counter that keeps going up that is tracking the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Eliminating water bottle use is not only a more Eco-Friendly approach but will also save a little change in your pocket too!
So grab that Aluminum can, mason jar, or hyrdoflask and carry your own water.
Looking for a way to filter that water you’ll be packing? Check out the Berkey Water Filters
3. Composting For Gold
In order to be apart of the solution we all have to stop being apart of the problem. Landfills are filled to the brim everyday, and it’s a problem completely of our doing.
While the mentality if “out of sight, out of mind” is the typical approach to waste, sending materials to landfill to decompose, poses it’s own threats.
Checkout this snippet from this may 15, 2019 article published by The Society of Environemental Journalists – Is Your Local Landfill Leaking Methane?:
When organic materials like food waste and paper decompose in a landfill, they produce gasses that are (very roughly) half methane and half carbon dioxide. Uncontrolled, this gas seeps out of the landfill over time. The problem? Both methane and carbon dioxide are greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming.
Landfill gas is the third largest source of methane emitted in the United States (after natural gas production and gassy cows). And methane has 21 times the warming impact of CO2. The good news is that because landfills are somewhat contained, much of the gas can often be captured in pipes as it rises from deposited waste.
https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/your-local-landfill-leaking-methane
Another Reason to compost is we are losing top soil at such an alarming rate they are predicting that there is only 60 harvests left of productive top soil. According to an article from 2012 by the World Economic Forum in TIME:
A rough calculation of current rates of soil degradation suggests we have about 60 years of topsoil left.
https://world.time.com/2012/12/14/what-if-the-worlds-soil-runs-out/
Whether this stat can be backed up still needs to be further investigated; regardless of the rate we are losing top soil due to unsustainable farming methods and if we don’t have productive nutrient dense soil we will not have a production crops for harvest day.
While composting is an easy way to live more sustainably, it takes disciple.
Composting can also reap some pretty sweet rewards too! Turn your “trash” into treasure for the earth. Create nutrient dense compost for the things you love to grow. And if you’re not sure how to compost at home, check out our blog 5 Ways to Compost at Home.
3. Make your own shit!
Whether you need Apple Cider Vinegar, love to eat bread, smell funky and need some soap, or want natural 3 ingredient cleaning supplies, you seriously can figure out how to make it by a touch of a button.
We are all so lucky to live in a time where Google and YouTube exist. It is just the next step which is the hardest part-
Taking action and Fucking Doing It!
This might just be the easiest way to be more sustainable, save your self some money is by investing some time in to some at home cooking, or homesteading creations.
Want to learn how to make your own apple cider vinegar, kombucha, or fermented beverages follow @deannacat , her homestead and chill blog basically is loaded with different recipes to make taking the next step towards homestead a reality not just a dream.
5. Get Backyard Chickens
If you live in a residence that allows chickens why don’t you have them already?
Firstly, they are entertaining as hell!
They are great way to help you compost and they create eggs almost all year long
(besides during times of molting and random natural events that can happen during a chickens life aka predator attacks, chicken pecking order, dog curiosity, etc.)
Vegans say let those chooks eat their eggs which we do but they lay soo many they would never eat all those eggs themselves.
Backyard eggs are great way to provide yourself with a humanely raised Eco-friendly protein source.
5. Practice Gratitude
You may be wondering how practicing gratitude is an Eco- Friendly Sustainability hack……….. Why Not?!?
Living in a consumer’s world is the mindsets resets you will face when starting your journey into sustainability. Refocusing your attention to how much you are consuming can feel challenging and seem to be too much discipline at this time.
Deep Breath In………..and Exhale
By starting a gratitude practice, you are taking the first steps toward happiness. Growing your awareness with self will also make you become vigilant of your constant chase with consumption.
Whether your practice is a spot on a pillow or a walk in nature, take a moment to change your entire frame of mind and allow yourself to see that you don’t have to move so fast or get everything you want out of life.
You have what it takes to be more Eco-friendly.
Making changes toward sustainability may feel abrasive at times as you are retraining yourself to be aware of the waste you create. But with these Five Eco-Friendly Hacks to Start Living a More Sustainable Life Today, you are off to becoming your best human yet; unleashing you down the permaculture path!
Stay happy and woke my buddies
