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Daily Question, January 2

What one thing am I able to do that will make a difference for our planet today?

  • Nina

    Buy organic free-range, pasture, or grass fed animals when purchasing products for food such as eggs, dairy, or meat.

  • Malag

    I’m usually on the look out for ways of acting greener whether it’s around reducing energy consumption, using public transport, recycling, limiting plastic, thinking before buying etc. I don’t think I’ll be doing any differently today.

  • Ose

    Take the coffee grounds of my morning coffee and the left overs of cold coffee to refresh the ground of the Rhododendrons in our garden, which I was told grow better then, instead of flushing it into the sewer system. Spare water whenever possible, instead reuse it, if possible.

  • ROSAURA YU

    Recicling, avoid plastic bags and conteiners!

  • BabaYaga
    OMG. There are so many practical things I can do. Walk or use public transit--no Uber. Buy necessities where I can refill containers--in Toronto that's at BareMarket or Unboxed. Do not shop online--there are thousands of vehicles delivering parcels per day in my city. Carry a cloth bag in my pocket or back pack. Drink tap water--no bottled water, ever. Cook at home to avoid takeout food or drinks in single use containers. Make my own yogurt--eliminate plastic containers entirely for that. Follo...

    OMG. There are so many practical things I can do. Walk or use public transit–no Uber. Buy necessities where I can refill containers–in Toronto that’s at BareMarket or Unboxed. Do not shop online–there are thousands of vehicles delivering parcels per day in my city. Carry a cloth bag in my pocket or back pack. Drink tap water–no bottled water, ever. Cook at home to avoid takeout food or drinks in single use containers. Make my own yogurt–eliminate plastic containers entirely for that. Follow a 100-mile diet and support local farmers–eat in-season fruits and vegetables; wait for asparagus season and then indulge. Wash dishes by hand in minimal water using unscented soap with no chemical lathering agents in it. Say “no thanks” to the dentist’s offer of a plastic toothbrush and dental floss in a plastic container, all put in a single-use plastic bag. This is a wonderful, thought-provoking question. Thank you.

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  • reality

    Shared a livestream of Marianne’s to someone for free, her environmental plans, etc., are top notch. Wrote an environmental twig of poetree and shared it online. Did enviromental and climate crisis advocacy today as well. Participated on this site too, in gratitude. Have a good eve’ ? reality

  • Maria

    Shopping out of my refrigerator. Trying not to waste food

  • Wait one more piss before flushing. How many gallons does each flush cost again?

  • Mica

    Oh dear – 2 of my appliances died today and I’d love to get the mica heater repaired, but does anyone repair small appliances these days?? … Thank you to this question, I’ve posted a repair request on Yelp!

    • maybe there is a repair cafe in your town? besides the provided tools often there are kind people who help out when oneself cannot repair it all alone

  • Chester

    Be fully present and engaged in the here, in the now, and act in response.

  • Present Moment

    Stirve for conscious contact with the god of my understanding

  • Sue

    Continue my recycling efforts and love for this planet that we share. Above all I will try to bring beauty through my acts and words.

  • Linda

    Drive less.

  • Elaine

    Renewing my commitment to refuse single use plastics and single use drink cups. Have been reducing my footprint, choice by choice for years and am deeply troubled by the climate emergency.

  • Deb

    I don’t think anything I might do myself will make any difference for our planet today. I do, however, think what WE do as community can make a big difference. It will encourage US to stay the course, set better intentions, begin again when one of us fails. Cheers for WEs, or USs!!

  • pkr

    Walking instead of driving.

  • Samuel

    Buy local whenever possible instead of knee-jerk reflex of Amazon or some other “Heaven knows where” remote on-line site. When I support locals they in turn support the town which supports the locality which supports the county which supports the state, ad infinitum. May cost a few minutes/pennies more but at least you’re supporting YOUR neighbors…
    sb

  • hans

    I can offer strangers, fellow passers-by,  a brief moment of connection and a smile of acknowledgement and kindness….

  • Tom Denham

    I am going to chair a 12-Step meeting tonight for a friend who is out of town. I assume that helping citizens of our planet is good for the planet.

  • Toby

    It’s a small thing but today I can pick up some rubbish from the little park near my house and bin it

    • Zoe
      My parents taught me and my siblings, as well as by their own example, NOT to litter. Now I am committed to picking up at least one piece of litter per day (on average), it doesn't seem much and as you expressed, it seems like a small thing, but if everyone in the world stopped littering and and then, if just half the population of the world each picked up one piece of litter, that is over 3 billion pieces of litter picked up. It really doesn't take much to pick up a piece of litter on ...

      My parents taught me and my siblings, as well as by their own example, NOT to litter.

      Now I am committed to picking up at least one piece of litter per day (on average), it doesn’t seem much and as you expressed, it seems like a small thing, but if everyone in the world stopped littering and and then, if just half the population of the world each picked up one piece of litter, that is over 3 billion pieces of litter picked up.

      It really doesn’t take much to pick up a piece of litter on a walk in a park and yet, it is those small things that can make a positive difference in our world.

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      • Toby

        So true Zoe. I hate littering and it’s a massive problem where I live. Today and yesterday I picked up 1 piece of litter in the park and I’m amazed at how happy it made me. Definitely going to keep doing it 🙂

        • Zoe

          This planet Earth is our home and so, I don’t understand how or why people litter. I can only do what I can do and yes, it makes me feel happy when I pick up even just one piece of litter. I do noticed that when a park area or pathway is litter-free, people don’t trash it so much. And perhaps, when someone sees me pick up a piece of litter, they might think about not littering, I can only hope.

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