Pretty soon after I graduate, I am going to begin my real career as an environmental consultant in DC. Now, a lot of my friends have been giving me suspicious looks when I say I am going corporate. . .so I have been browsing around the internet for things I can do to keep my green heart pure.
1. Instead of buying a brief case made from leather or vinyl, there are a large variety of briefcases made out of hemp, organic cotton or other environmentally friendly materials. (See below, from http://www.artisangear.com/courier.html).
2. Bring my lunch to work every day in a reusable bag. Buy organic, and preferably local food as much as possible. I can also use reusable utensils and containers, as well as cloth napkins. The website whose products are featured below has adorable hemp and design lunch bags, complete with reusable containers. See http://www.laptoplunches.com/products.html
3. Avoid traveling by air as much as possible. When traveling, use hybrid cars (Avis and others have implemented new green traveling options. Also, elect to stay at environmentally conscious hotels.
Friday, April 11, 2008
3 Items for the Green Professional
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How about going vegetarian? The livestock industry produces 1/5 of the world's human-induced greenhouse gases - more than cars, planes, and other forms of transportation combined. Meat production causes severe air and water pollution. And because it takes 2 to 10 times as much grain to produce the same amount of calories from meat as from eating the grain directly, increased meat production is a central cause of the emerging world food crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
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