As I go on this journey of learning about ways to go green, I keep hearing that little voice that says, but what does it mean to go green? Not the answers that are commonly thrown. But the truth. What does it mean to be green? for you and for me
I also think who cares if we are green. Really matters?
People have been living on this planet for hundreds of years and did any of them ever say let’s live green? My grandparents lived to be 80 years old and I don’t think either of them thought of living green.
Well, I will give the answer to this question in my own words. Then let’s take a look at another definition. It works like this for me. I’m going to the store to buy something simple. Let’s buy a carton of ice cream. I look at the back of the box and start reading the label, milk, sugar, salt, eggs, vanilla, items I know. I can tell you where an egg comes from. So I’m curious because the other brand is on sale, so of course I read the back of the package and discover milk, eggs, sugar, artificial flavoring and a bunch of other ingredients that I’m not aware of and I’m sure are not a source of food. Chemicals disguised as food. Well, I like to save money, but I want food, not chemicals. What happens next is this: I start to think about the process in which the companies make the chemical and how they just don’t include food ingredients in the recipe. I start to worry about the air from the processing plants and the energy it takes to put all this together. Now, in this short paragraph I have mentioned the air we breathe, the energy we use and the health of myself and my family.
That’s what it means to go green. Have an awareness of their environmental surroundings and the effects it has on them.
If I buy the ice cream with food ingredients, I am supporting a whole food eating structure. If I buy food with artificial ingredients and flavors, I am supporting a structure that does not prioritize health or the environment. Now I know it’s oversimplified, but that’s the gist.
The definition in the dictionary states: going green is a movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through the conservation of natural resources.
To oversimplify a huge concept, going green is simply caring about the impact you have on your environment. Going green does matter.
That’s all.