What is my Ecological Footprint - Answer these questions:-
How much rubbish do you throw away?
Where does your rubbish go?
Do you recycle?
What can you recycle?
Where does your water come from?
How does it get cleaned?
Where does your waste water go?
Where does your electricity come from?... What is the nearest edible plant to your front door?(This question does NOT suggest that you go and try all of the plants growing near your door - it does suggest that you use field guides to find out)?... Read more...
Knowing the answers to these questions will help you understand the connections between your lifestyle habits and your impact upon the earth, that is collectively multiplied with everyone elses. It will also give you an insight about the bridge between living directly from nature using Bushcraft skills and living in a modern manner using all of our conveniences.
Also if you know these answers you can learn how your lifestyle can cost you less; how you could have no more bills to pay and how you can save money and even earn money from changing some of these habits to ones that have a POSITIVE IMPACT!
My future articles will show you how to reduce your outgoings to a minimum - How to build some simple sustainable technologies to produce energy - How to conserve and reuse water - How to switch to locally produced food and grow some of your own. I will also cover making Veg diesel or Bio fuel (Build your own vegetable oil converter) and an indepth article into the use of Living Machines and what these are. I will discuss using Cob, Strawbale and other materials. On this site though I really want to help people who are stuck in renting property particularly; who may have difficulty reducing their ecological footprint without the permission and/or help of their landlords. This is why I'm also going to talk about different ways of owning property. I'm going to try and root all of this in the practical tools of bushcraft so that we can learn to gain a handle on what being totally independent could really mean AND why interdependence may be closer to the truth.
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On reducing garbage, I didn't realize how much of a difference I was making until my wife pointed out to me that three days before "trash day" my neighbor's trashcan was overflowing and he had to start using a second can.
My household has five people in it. Our trash can is almost never full on trash day. Our recycle can is usually just as full as our trash can, while many of our neighbors elect not to recycle, or are just less serious about how much of their waste they segregate out for recycling.
But what has made the biggest difference is making food from scratch. Most of our waste is packaging. When you make food from scratch, you might buy 50 lbs of flour in one bag, 25 lbs of sugar in one bag, etc., so this produces very little waste. When the neighbors have pizza for dinner, they throw out a couple of boxes that are not recyclable (due to the grease). When my family has pizza, we fetch the ingredients from the pantry and have no waste. Oh sure there may be some organic waste, like the bits of a bell pepper we don't eat, but they go out in the compost pail.
So after a hearty pizza dinner, not one thing gets tossed in the trash can.
Being more mindful of how much packaging you are throwing away is a great way to improve your footprint. It's also a great way to not worry so much about all of these toxic food products coming from China.
Nicely put, thanks Captain Uxbeard
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