It is necessary that we locate the daily practices that can make a real difference in caring for the environment. After knowing them and meditating on their importance, it is very important to make them habits. We know that habits are powerful, both when they are positive and when they are negative: a habit is almost like breathing or eating for the brain. What’s better than adopting positive habits for the health of the planet, that lead by example and make you feel good on a daily basis.
1. Avoid buying bottled: go back to the times when you continually filled a thermos to satisfy your needs for this liquid. Remember that this terrible practice was promoted in the 90s, but in addition to the fact that companies exploit aquifers at ridiculous prices, the generation of is horrifying.
2. Avoid ordering takeout and, if you do, avoid Styrofoam at all costs: try to go to restaurants directly; Ordering takeout involves an exorbitant amount of waste. For its part, Styrofoam takes about a thousand years to degrade.
3. Use your car to a minimum and preferably do not have any: there came a time in the last century when the car became synonymous with quality of life. However, this harmful belief has meant that since the industrial revolution there is 40% more carbon dioxide than before, since the use of automobiles is one of the main pollutants.
4. If your city or town does not separate garbage, organize a campaign: it is not difficult, and the fact that your city council does not separate garbage when collecting it is not an excuse for this to never change. Get organized with some neighbors and start a campaign to make the use and separation of garbage in your area an obligation.
5. Do not use the air conditioning: if it is very hot, install a fan, because using air conditioning is a significant waste of energy, so eliminate it, even at the cost of your comfort.
6. Grow crops at home and add green spaces: it is proven that minimal contact with nature, even in a photograph, makes you happier. It is also proven that any green space improves temperature and returns humidity to the atmosphere: making a green space in your home is a work that will benefit many people around you.
7. Adopt plants in danger of extinction: some initiatives have applied this great idea, so that some plant species are not lost; Search the internet for one that exists in your country.
8. Adopt a green space in your city: it will be your responsibility to take care of it, but it will also be one of the most powerful silent satisfactions in your life.
9. Take your electronic waste to a safe place: never mix it with the rest of your waste; Research a collection center close to your home and, preferably, take more people’s electronic waste with you.
10. Avoid plastic: use cloth bags and replace plastic with glass versions, which are usually returnable. Gradually eliminate plastic from your life; it’s possible.
11. Sign and support global ecological campaigns: although many people are skeptical on this point, united global citizen power can make big changes (which has been proven), to combat the great powers that seek to profit from environmental deterioration.