Environmental Wellness Principle
This article is part of a joint effort to increase environmental awareness. It also marks the first annual blog action day. To see what everyone else is writing about the environment today, you can browse the blog action day website.
At first I wasn’t sure where I would go with an environmental article. That’s because there are already countless articles listing practical tips about what you can do. It’s pretty simple to find them via search engine. I didn’t want to add to the clutter, but I did want to make a positive impact on the environment through my writing today.
Environmental Wellness Principle (EWP)
The environmental wellness principle is a term that I’m going to coin right now. If you aren’t benefiting the environment, you’re harming it. It’s as simple as that. If you’re reading this, you have internet access, which means you know, or can easily find out, many ways to be environmentally friendly. The only thing that remains is to choose benefit over harm.
Let’s look at a few basic examples:
- Instead of throwing your empty soda can out of your car window, and almost hitting the car behind you (no, i’m not venting!), you could kindly choose to recycle this item at your earliest convenience. Perhaps keep a trash bag in your car!
- Turn off electrical appliances whenever you aren’t using them.
- If something is broken, try fixing it first, even though replacing it might be easier.
The beauty is that once you can train yourself to think in this way, you can apply it to just about anything. Think in terms of “you’re either with us, or against us“. Make the right decision.
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I am glad I came across your Blog Action Day post Alex. I had forgotten all about it totally.
It was the second BlogActionDay post I read today, but the first one I thought it was just a reminder post. I guess I should stop by Anja Merret and thank her as well. Well, thanks for being on the ball and writing your Blogactionday post Alex.
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I’m already doing everything on your list except fixing appliances. The trouble is finding someone competent to do the repairs. In general it’s a waste of time and money. If you know of some resources, I’d love to hear about them.
You know what Jean, I would recommend looking through some of the Blog Action Day posts that went around on Monday. I’m sure with 20,000 blog posts, there are some great resources for that. If not for repairing, than at least for proper recycling of old junk.
Our town has a recycle day, where we can bring our old electronic appliances, so that’s not a problem…except for keeping it in a small apartment that long. I do think in general the idea of repairing things is obsolete. Mostly they’re designed to be recycled at best.
We are on the same wavelength, though.
What percentage of bloggers would you say are environmentally aware? I’ve been reading some lately where they’re thinking in terms of more lavish lifestyles, which includes jet setting. Just what we need right now. Flying does pump out the old CO2.
I couldn’t really say how many bloggers are environmentally aware, but I will say that Blog Action Day must have had a huge impact on awareness. Perhaps a poll should be in order to take count =)