Everyday Activism

Trick 6

siriembla — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:15:35 +0000

Use a pencil instead of a pen! 1stly you can even rubber it out if you want to change something, 2ndly pencils biodegrade WAY better than plastic pens! And what about using a yellow pencil instead of a highlighter?

Im in love with my new pencils… they feel much softer to write with, and it looks nice as well because there are no crossing out of old pen scrambling!

Trick 5

siriembla — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:57:12 +0000

Use A Mooncup, join the mooncup challenge! Buy a mooncup, reduce your waste!

http://www.mooncup.co.uk/wc.php?u=1959

The Challenge:
Join me in my reduce waste & Save the planet
-and receive a bonus of your own saved cash!!!

How many kilos can we save together ???!!!

Here are the figures: If one girl on average used 4 tampons pr menstruating day and each period was for 4 days she would use 768 tampons a year.
One tampon weighs about (yes, I did weigh it!) 3 grams. That is 2304 grams per year!!

Further if she used one pad per night for 4 nights that is 48 pads per year.
Which weighs about 10 grams each that is 480 grams of PADS!!!

TOTAL WEIGHT PER PERSON IS 2.784 KGs

Moneywise: In NZ you’ll spend about $ 600 on tampons and $ 26 on pads TOTAL SUM OF $ 626!!!! (not so hard maths there.. ehm)

In Norway you ‘ll spend about 1440 kr på tamponger og 120 kr på bind TOTAL SUM ER 1560 KR!!!

HOW?

By purhcasing a Mooncup; check you this web site:
http://www.mooncup.co.uk/wc.php?u=1959

The Mooncup menstrual cup is available by mail order at a cost of £19.99 – this includes recycled packaging.

If you choose to join me on this campaign, please let me know so that I can calculate how many kilos of waste we save the planet!!!

EVERY DROP COUNTS!

Trick 4

siriembla — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:52:13 +0000

When buying take aways bring your own box or bowl! (And if you take it home to eat, it kinda makes it look like you cooked it yourself.. and its way more cosy!)

Trick 3

siriembla — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:49:26 +0000

Carry a pair of chopsticks in your bag. We like Sushi, we like Japanese food yum yum yum. And we like take aways..

How many trees get chopped down to make chopsticks?

Just have a pair ready in your bag!

Trick 2

siriembla — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:06:03 +0000

Start a ‘who uses less plastic bags’ competition. Get a few friends together and see who can over the course of lets say a year see how many plastic bags each person has saved. Simply just count each time you go to the shop and say ‘no’ to a plastic bag. I guess honesty will play a role in such a game, since it is practically very easy to cheat. But the game can be fun, cheating isn’t.. the choice is yours!

I think last year I might have saved about 352 bags. It is a bit of plastic. Lets do it!

Eat less meat, says UN

siriembla — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:27:03 +0000

People should eat less meat if they want to combat climate change, advises a leading expert for the United Nations. Dr Raj Pachuri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says people should aim for one meat-free day a week before scaling down even further.

“In terms of immediacy of action and the feacibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it is clearly the most attractive opportunity,”says the Nobel Prize winner. “It is relatively easy to change…..compared to changing means of transport.”

The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation estimates that meat production accounts for nearly one-fifth of all global greenhouse gas emission- substantially more than all the cars, trucks, buses and trains in the world combined. These emissions are generated by the production of animal feed, clearing the forested land, making and transportating fertiliser, burning fossil fuels in farm vehicles and by the animals themselves. Cows and sheep belch methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times more potent that carbondioxide.

Agriculture accounts for 49 percent of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions- higher than anywhere else in the world. We are also on of the biggest meat-eaters per capita on the planet, consuming double the daily intake of countries like Canada, Usa, Japan and Russia.

Local chef Peter Chaplin says New Zealanders shouls consider eating “better quality meat twice a week, rather than poor quality meat four times a week”. That way, both our health and the health of the planet will be better off.

Article from GOOD- New Zealand’s guide to sustainable living. Issue three, page19.

Everyday activism: Trick 1

siriembla — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:15:38 +0000

Big brands pay money, cash, pingas, whatever you like to call it, for their shelf placement in the supermarket.

In your eyeline – in your face – in your trolley…

Not necessarily!

With everyday activism you can make a difference!

Here is a little trick that we have found quite fun to do on our shopping journey:

Take a little cute bunch of for example fair trade chocolate and display them across a more famous brand. Voila! The consumer will be face to face with a brand that is a better choice for our planet and we are giving those big ‘haha we have so much money and can buy ourselves into your brain’ brands a little smack on their maybe a bit too nosy noses.