BLOG ACTION DAY…Save the Earth

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children. “

Antoine de saint-Exubery

SAVE THE EARTH…Environment issues that are hurting the Earth.

Raising concerns related to the earth are gaining ground; the more voices that are heard, the better. What better way to additionally spread the message than blogging. Given the reach of the net, it’s time to ‘get involved’ in the Blog Action Day on 15th October 2007. The bigger the involvement; the greater the impact.

Speaking from the kitchen, I have to say that I have always believed in home-made stuff to a very large extent. Though it is primarily due to nutrition and health factors, it is also a personal effort to ‘Save the Earth’. In my little way, I believe this cuts down on packaging materials, transportation costs, storage costs etc…. each bit goes a long way!

A point that has stuck in my mind for a while is about an article on ‘Bottled Water’ that I read some time back in the newspapers. Though I haven’t been able to locate the paper, I have found the gist of the article on the web, and quote it below to share it with you. Unless there are environment contamination factors or health factors involved, I am sure we would all agree that saying NO to bottled water would positively impact our burdened Earth, and is quite achievable. Do give this a read…and thought!! Thank You!!

Quote…

“BOTTLED WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

People must think about all the unnecessary energy costs that go into making a bottle of water, says Peter Gleick, an expert on water policy and director of a think tank called the Pacific Institute, based in Oakland, California, the United States.

The Earth Policy Institute has estimated that, making the plastic for the bottles needs about 1.5 million barrels of oil, which is enough to fuel 100,000 cars a year. Nearly 90% of the bottles are not recycled.Peter Gleick presents a simple way to visualise the average cost of energy for the whole exercise – to make the plastic, process and fill the bottle, transport bottled water to market and then deal with the waste: “It would be like filling up a quarter of every bottle with oil.”One of the easiest ways, he suggests, for the people to cut the enormous costs in making bottled water is to is to drink tapped water. A filter can be used if one does not like the taste of tapped water.”…Unquote