Comments on: 12 Easy Ways to Go Green – The Renegade Health Show Episode #431 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/ The best daily health TV show on healthy living, vegan, raw food, longevity, holistic nutrition, bodyweight exercises and self motivation! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:16:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Frederik Ackermann http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-62932 Frederik Ackermann Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:03:36 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-62932 I was sort of thinking that putting plastic containers into the soil is a really bad idea, if you want to be green! - what is the difference between this and dumping plastic carbage in a landslide? And btw. use glass bottles for water, thats way healthier for you, than plastic or metal! I was sort of thinking that putting plastic containers into the soil is a really bad idea, if you want to be green! – what is the difference between this and dumping plastic carbage in a landslide? And btw. use glass bottles for water, thats way healthier for you, than plastic or metal!

]]> By: kelly w http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-61399 kelly w Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:54:47 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-61399 Thats so funny. I am thinking about getting goats next year and making my own raw goat cheese. I already do a lot of these things but I like the idea of blending up the scraps and feeding it back to my plants. Thats so funny. I am thinking about getting goats next year and making my own raw goat cheese.
I already do a lot of these things but I like the idea of blending up the scraps and feeding it back to my plants.

]]> By: Marlene http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60994 Marlene Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:38:47 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60994 I compost in the summer using my compost bin. When the weather is cooler, I bury the veggie, fruit, hair, coffee, tea grounds, leaves under the ground. My garden is composting all winter long. The soil is richer and I plant many vegetables May through November. Marlene I compost in the summer using my compost bin. When the weather is cooler, I bury the veggie, fruit, hair, coffee, tea grounds, leaves under the ground. My garden is composting all winter long. The soil is richer and I plant many vegetables May through November.
Marlene

]]> By: Florence http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60905 Florence Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:06:16 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60905 My bathroom is so cold that I haven't stop the water during washing in the shower. I am going to be brave and give it a go. FLorence My bathroom is so cold that I haven’t stop the water during washing in the shower. I am going to be brave and give it a go.
FLorence

]]> By: Romaine http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60873 Romaine Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:32:49 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60873 Just another point about cravings; a question I find helpful to ask myself when I'm tempted by unhealthy food is "how will I feel when I've eaten it?" - that's usually enough to stop me having it! Now I shall also add, "what could I have instead?" Thanks Kevin. Romaine Just another point about cravings; a question I find helpful to ask myself when I’m tempted by unhealthy food is “how will I feel when I’ve eaten it?” – that’s usually enough to stop me having it! Now I shall also add, “what could I have instead?” Thanks Kevin.

Romaine

]]> By: PE http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60800 PE Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:31:35 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60800 #10 and #5 (and the water in #8 and #6) refer to showering, as do crow, ang and heather early on. Raye Ann speaks of bicarb (baking soda) and vinegar washes/shampoos; my experiments so far suggest these can eliminate the shower altogether, just as Jenkins' book shows how to eliminate the flush toilet. Humans tend to get smelly in the underarm, under breast, and crotch areas, and if obese in a few others. Depending on amount and kind of food fats and proteins, this can be a small or big problem, but scrubbing with bicarb and vinegar rinse works. Even long oily hair yields to them, and may yield to daily warm water rinses alone, the water then going to feed plants. As with any change, there's a transition period, often of some weeks, till the body adjusts to the new ways. Then you both reduce washwater dramatically and can use the diluted result on plants, sometimes after wash/rinsing dishes. Diluted 5-20 times, urine too is a fine plant food, sterile unless your genitourinary tract makes you too sick to garden anyway. For gardens, Eliot Coleman has removed excuses for New Englanders to import produce etc, with his unheated greenhouses and coldframes. Apt dwellers have windowsills, often a stair or balcony, quite often unused ground or rooftop, beside sprouts and greens from seeds. Kefir grows indoors too. Bicycle where you need to go and/or use what little public transport you can find, learning the virtues of 'exercise' (activity! not bought from a gym or spa) and patience. When you vote with dollars, euros or pounds for a well-wrapped product, leave the wrapping at the store, which favors wrapping to reduce theft, if you can't think how to reuse it (and of course, how to do without the product). You vote for leaders, who often mislead, every few years, for your political economy daily or weekly. Learn, then teach how to SHARE THE WORLD! #10 and #5 (and the water in #8 and #6) refer to showering, as do crow, ang and heather early on. Raye Ann speaks of bicarb (baking soda) and vinegar washes/shampoos; my experiments so far suggest these can eliminate the shower altogether, just as Jenkins’ book shows how to eliminate the flush toilet.
Humans tend to get smelly in the underarm, under breast, and crotch areas, and if obese in a few others. Depending on amount and kind of food fats and proteins, this can be a small or big problem, but scrubbing with bicarb and vinegar rinse works. Even long oily hair yields to them, and may yield to daily warm water rinses alone, the water then going to feed plants. As with any change, there’s a transition period, often of some weeks, till the body adjusts to the new ways. Then you both reduce washwater dramatically and can use the diluted result on plants, sometimes after wash/rinsing dishes.
Diluted 5-20 times, urine too is a fine plant food, sterile unless your genitourinary tract makes you too sick to garden anyway.
For gardens, Eliot Coleman has removed excuses for New Englanders to import produce etc, with his unheated greenhouses and coldframes. Apt dwellers have windowsills, often a stair or balcony, quite often unused ground or rooftop, beside sprouts and greens from seeds. Kefir grows indoors too.
Bicycle where you need to go and/or use what little public transport you can find, learning the virtues of ‘exercise’ (activity! not bought from a gym or spa) and patience.
When you vote with dollars, euros or pounds for a well-wrapped product, leave the wrapping at the store, which favors wrapping to reduce theft, if you can’t think how to reuse it (and of course, how to do without the product). You vote for leaders, who often mislead, every few years, for your political economy daily or weekly.
Learn, then teach how to SHARE THE WORLD!

]]> By: Kim http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60375 Kim Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:52:13 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60375 I've been wanting to compost for a while, this was a good reminder to just go ahead & do it. Thank you guys for all the information you put out there! I watch your show every day, love it! You guys are aweseome :) I’ve been wanting to compost for a while, this was a good reminder to just go ahead & do it.

Thank you guys for all the information you put out there! I watch your show every day, love it! You guys are aweseome :)

]]> By: Jasmine http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60335 Jasmine Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:20:44 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60335 I'm going to stop using the produce bags at the grocery store and instead bring my own Debbie Meyer bags! thanks! I’m going to stop using the produce bags at the grocery store and instead bring my own Debbie Meyer bags! thanks!

]]> By: <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="698720692">Idapie No?way Tomato Aalvik</fb:name> http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60327 Idapie No?way Tomato Aalvik Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:06:15 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60327 Great blog topic, Kevin! One of my big issues is that people use too much plastic - much of which is either not recyclable (esp grocery bags) or just not recycled at all. Heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Its basically the worlds largest landfill - located in the North Pacific Ocean. This particular oceanic plastic dump is TWICE the size of Texas state. This makes me cry, - look it up.. I was actually reading about the whole goat thing the other day cause i stumbled across this: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/rent-a-ruminant-goats-clearing-brush-photos-before-and-after.php?campaign=TH_rotator Made me giggle. As you said in #7, my fruit market uses colour coded bags for each produce (regarding to price and quality of it)- this is TERRIBLE, i try to steer away from this, which makes then angry sometimes... I've been thing about for a long time to write a letter to the local council about it and i think i just might. Thanks, Kevin, im sure this was enlightening og refreshing for all of us! Great blog topic, Kevin!
One of my big issues is that people use too much plastic – much of which is either not recyclable (esp grocery bags) or just not recycled at all.
Heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Its basically the worlds largest landfill – located in the North Pacific Ocean. This particular oceanic plastic dump is TWICE the size of Texas state.
This makes me cry, – look it up..

I was actually reading about the whole goat thing the other day cause i stumbled across this: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/rent-a-ruminant-goats-clearing-brush-photos-before-and-after.php?campaign=TH_rotator
Made me giggle.

As you said in #7, my fruit market uses colour coded bags for each produce (regarding to price and quality of it)- this is TERRIBLE, i try to steer away from this, which makes then angry sometimes… I’ve been thing about for a long time to write a letter to the local council about it and i think i just might.

Thanks, Kevin, im sure this was enlightening og refreshing for all of us!

]]> By: Renee http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2009/11/03/12-easy-ways-to-go-green/#comment-60167 Renee Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:46:06 +0000 http://renegadehealth.com/blog/?p=1893#comment-60167 Hahha funny the goats are pretty much the only thing that we are not doing!!! We are looking (seriously) into goat not for mowing lawn (but it would be a bonus) but for their milk, our kids and I are allergic to cows milk but fine with goat milk, cheese etc... But it's is not legal over here for farmer to sell them on the open market so you have to know the farmers and get it from them personally. So ya, baby next spring after baby #3 is born we would look into having a few goats. Ps we do raise our own chicken and we use their dry eggs shells (dry them up and grind them finely) and put it into the scraps of food that we feed them (They need calcium so they would not eat their own eggs)That way we save of chicken feed and our eggs taste very yummy :-) Hahha funny the goats are pretty much the only thing that we are not doing!!!

We are looking (seriously) into goat not for mowing lawn (but it would be a bonus) but for their milk, our kids and I are allergic to cows milk but fine with goat milk, cheese etc… But it’s is not legal over here for farmer to sell them on the open market so you have to know the farmers and get it from them personally.

So ya, baby next spring after baby #3 is born we would look into having a few goats.

Ps we do raise our own chicken and we use their dry eggs shells (dry them up and grind them finely) and put it into the scraps of food that we feed them (They need calcium so they would not eat their own eggs)That way we save of chicken feed and our eggs taste very yummy :-)

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