Help the Environment

Most of us want to help the environment. At the very least, most of us don’t want to cause any direct harm to the environment. Unfortunately, we appear to live in a society that consistently de-prioritizes the health of the environment for the sake of economic progress.

It’s easy to feel like things are hopeless and to want to give up, but when you start to look around you realize that there are plenty of great alternatives to the conventional way of doing things- alternatives that are great for the health of the environment.

Cut out the Chemicals

Our culture is addicted to chemicals, and they don’t do anything good for the environment. The reason why we are so obsessed with using chemicals for everything and putting chemicals in anything is because they are good for business. It’s easy to control chemicals, it’s easy to patent chemicals, and it’s very cheap to make them and make an obscene profit off of them. Unfortunately, what’s good for business isn’t always what’s will help the environment.

These destructive chemicals poison our soil, our water, and our air. And if the damage these chemicals do to the environment wasn’t bad enough, all of that junk ends up inside us as well. And we don’t take to synthetic chemicals any better than the environment does.

Eat Better

Much like cutting the chemicals out of your life is both good for the environment and good for your health, eating better quality food provides the same one-two punch that makes the benefits grossly outweigh the small increase in price you’ll pay for properly raised produce and animal products.

The damages to the environment created by our factory-farm system are almost too numerous to even just list within this article. The food industry has completely depleted our soil of all the minerals that it requires to produce healthy plants. The food industry uses an obscene amount of chemicals and pesticides on their crops to shore up their unhealthiness, and in the process passes those chemicals off to the environment and the consumers of those plants. Both plants and animals are so treated with chemicals and antibiotics that they continue to produce more and more powerful pathogens that threaten to wipe out massive swaths of life on this planet. The list goes on and on.

By eating organic foods you support growing methods that are treated with massively smaller amounts of synthetic chemicals. When you purchase food from local farmers, you support growing methods that enrich the earth, help the environment and keep it healthy and vibrant.

Switch Energy Sources

Perhaps the biggest strain on the environment is the incredible pollution caused by traditional energy sources like coal and oil. Burning coal and oil produces massive amounts of CO2, which ends up first in the atmosphere and eventually makes its way through the whole ecosystem. If there is only one thing that you do to help the environment, you must switch to alternative energy sources such as solar power and wind power as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. Read more of our great energy saving tips or if you want to really make a difference and start becoming energy independent, check out the best way to it with our guide that outlines how to build your own solar panels or visit our Earth4energy review and our GreenDIYenergy review and see what we think of the full featured DIY solar guides that are out there.