More People Are Making Their Peanut Butter Cookies Green This Week - Image from CookieMadness.net
This week, being environmentally responsible doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, it can be more tasty than ever. From going green with a spoonful of peanut butter to embracing the planet by embracing organically grown veggies for your new homemade salsa, many individuals are finding tasty ways to reduce their ecological footprint in addition to the usual methods of cutting down on energy costs for the good of the planet.
1. Yummy Peanut Butter (No Jelly Necessary). This week features National Peanut Butter Cookie Day will make its way to many American cupboards on June 12 – and even if you’ve never heard of this holiday before, it’s a great reason to take in more of that creamy sweet and salty product this week. The fact that peanut butter is green also is another reason to celebrate – peanut butter is a completely plant-based product, and replacing more meat-based foods with protein-filled peanut butter is a habit that not only is healthier for your heart but also for the environment: You can reduce your carbon footprint by a minimum of 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions by taking in more peanut butter. Get the milk glasses ready!
2. Going Digital. More employees this week are seeing the value in switching from paper to the digital realm. With so many people today already using Facebook and e-mail to communicate, many offices also are trying to communicate in planet-friendly ways this week by cutting their paper usage and instead relying on digital files or electronic records for customer or patient information. It’s a switch that keeps Mother Earth more robust and keeps more oxygen flowing for future generations.
3. Green Summer Salads. As more people this week enjoy life outdoors and explore their local supermarkets and farmers’ markets, they are more aware about the value of picking up organic vegetables and fruits for their summer salads this week. Organic food products are grown ethically and feature no pesticides, and if you’re adventurous, it’s not too late for you to start growing your own beans, peas, pumpkins or even sweet potatoes this week to experiment with organic farming.
4. Cooling off the Green Way. Many more individuals this week are realizing that the air condition bills are getting a bit larger as the warmer weather begins to climb – and the trend will not be any different for the next couple months of summer heat. This week, more people are investing in green ways to beat the heat – such as buying electric fans, which use 90 percent less energy than central air units do. They also are researching the possibility of using solar-powered air conditioners – a green way to achieve rapid comfort from the hot weather.
5. Green Picnics. This week, spring is still here, yet summer is around the corner. The weather promises to be nice and school is out – so more parents are treating their kids to a fun day at the park – complete with ample play time and maybe even a nice picnic. More picnic goers are trying to be eco-friendly by using recycled and biodegradable plastic ware and napkins. That means less dishes at home and a smaller ecological footprint that is sure to please Mother Nature.
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I know the basics of being simple living with reducing our Ego to go Eco should be the focus of today rather than rocket science.
At present we need to address the economic crisis & treacherous climatic changes by looking in to cause and effects.. What I feel is by over consumption of unbalanced resource utilizations for the mighty few but sacrificed by many… We can see that many billions are in poverty who has no place to stay, food ,clothing, medical care, love, protection and security the basics of hierarchy of needs.
Also the Life of the sick planet due to egoistical mentality of many self-conscious comforts and to satisfy egoistic mind sets. That is for the few rich who also need only three meals a day and one bed to sleep, if desires of five senses are controlled.
I am glad I invented a Global solution in Packaging to replace Plastics and white pollution on earth by expanded polystyrene replaced with using wastes natural matrterials which is available in 104 contries of the equator..
Also I have invented a digital instrument where 2600 years of truth could be distributed among those who over consuming due to uncontrolled desires of five senses. This could be heard at the touch of the instrument even for eight hours,No wires, or complicated gadgetry. Any body, kids to old could be used until they understand to truth of life and inner peace is generated thereby peace at home & the Global village.
Thanks to satellite communication & cloud computing marvel invented by my friend Sir Arthur Clarke who conceptualized it in 1945 by his patent.
But I am very glad to see that Bill Gates has seen the suffering of people of the third world. He may have understood that consequence to keep few rich in comfort, called for a billionaires meeting to share part of their accumulated wealth to give back to the poor for their basic needs. This meritorious work is well appreciated by me as a man who is trying to alleviate poverty from this suffering earth throgh simple innovations generating green jobs and green enterprises. I am very much appriciative of Bill Gates approch.It is a great consolation at this time of the billionaires’’ concern for the poor suffering mass.
Can some one give me how to access to Bill Gates and Google co-founders who could join my band wagon as a Stanford student in 1982 to eradicate poverty throgh innovation and short cut to Peace by exposing truth of life.?
Dr.Nandadasa Narayana – Chairman, Flexport Innovations -www.flexport.biz