15 October 2009
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Blog Action Day 2009
Today, Thursday, October 15th, 2009, is Blog Action Day. This year, the theme is Climate Change. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has so many amazing resources you can research, read, and learn until your eyes cross and you won’t make it through all of the information. Do check it out!
Grow Your Own Veggies!
I thought it would be fun to blog about ways to specifically be more eco-friendly regarding the topic of this blog: raw food and juicing, and my life on an Amish farm.
Here are a few ideas for leaving less of a footprint on our beautiful planet:
- Recycle your juice pulp by using it in veggie burgers, muffins, crackers, or even by adding it to compost or feeding it to your chickens.
- Support local farmers and farmer’s markets to cut down on the transport of things you can buy locally and help reduce greenhouse gases.
- Or, better yet: grow your own (organic) garden!
- Use handcrafted soap made by local people.
- Also use that handcrafted soap as your shampoo–you’ll eliminate those plastic bottles shampoo comes in!
- Invest in a quality, reusable water canteen. The amount of plastic bottles you’ll be contributing to landfills will drop dramatically!
- Eat less meat.
- Walk or ride your bike as often as possible.
- Hang your clothes out to dry instead of using your dryer–especially on beautiful days!
- Buy good, used clothes instead of new.
- Purchase reusable bags and keep them in your car. It will cut down–or eliminate–your need for plastic grocery sacks.
- Reuse the plastic grocery sacks you do end up with as trash bags for small waste baskets.
- Apply raw ingredients from your own kitchen to your face and body–instead of beauty products containing harsh chemicals.
All of these ideas are things I actually apply to my own life, as I try to walk softly and cherish what beauty of Mother Earth we have left…
“Some greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide occur naturally and are emitted to the atmosphere through natural processes and human activities. Other greenhouse gases (e.g., fluorinated gases) are created and emitted solely through human activities.” — EPA
Are you worried about climate change? Do you try to live an eco-friendly lifestyle in order to help preserve our beautiful planet? Or do you go through each day without a thought to how your actions are effecting our environment? What juicy tips do you have to share? Do tell!
Oh, and check out my mom’s Blog Action Day post: Eco-Friendly Cooking + Blog Action Day!
Also, check out Mysti’s Climate Change post (from Dining Family)!
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LOVE all your great suggestions…It feels good to know I already to many of them but there’s always room for improvement.
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Raw Juice Girl Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Thanks, Cindy! Glad you enjoyed them. (I thought I’d already replied to this comment, by the way – I wonder if cyber space gobbled it up??!!!)
Yep, there’s always room for improvement. For instance, I could walk miles and not use the computer. Yeah, right. LOL
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Wow, you’re still on the Amish farm. I don’t know why, but I got it in my head that it was only a temporary thing. (I told you about how I lived with an Amish family in high school as a senior project, right?)
Okay, so I’ve gotta ask…no electricity, yet you juice daily and you’re on the net/twitter…How? You go into town? Run to Mom’s house nearby?
That is one BIG garden! I had my very first square-foot garden this year (15×15). Loved it! Nothing like grocery shopping in your own backyard!
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Raw Juice Girl Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Um, nope. I’m still here! LOL
Actually, a homesteading blog is in the making (it has been for a while, but it’s coming soon – promise!). Mom is actually here, on the farm. Answers like this will be addressed on the homesteading blog. I’m not trying to be cruel, just trying to save some good stuff to share on the homesteading blog.
Oh, that isn’t even half of the garden. It’s 100X100. That’s an older photo, back when it was younger. I ate fresh, organic, heirloom watermelon from the garden this morning! It’s totally craziness! LOL
I’ll be sure to share with all of y’all when the homesteading blog is live. Design has been chosen and is getting sorted out, and we’ll be going back to the beginning and walking readers through our journey. And, I should’ve totally mentioned that we have a 3-seater outhouse. ROFL! Seriously. Yep.
I don’t juice every single day anymore, by the way. I did when I was juice fasting, but I’ve had a crazy time. Oy. And I don’t even have a real kitchen. No cabinets. (The Amish don’t put cabinets in their kitchens like we do (not most of ‘em anyway) and so, yeah… Sheesh!
Oh, and the Internet is via a USB modem – and I did spend time at a local coffee shop!
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