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Thanksgiving and the Environment

When you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner this year and think of all the things for which you are grateful, remember to add this to your list: The earth we live on.

It’s an opportune time to show your thanks to Mother Nature as well. And there are plenty of easy and flexible ways in which to do so:

• Bring your own bags to the grocery store.
• Buy locally grown, organic foods whenever possible. Because they are transported shorter distances, they cause fewer carbon dioxide emissions. Because they don’t use chemicals, they don’t damage the environment or your family’s health.
• Buy foods that use the least amount of packaging, and recycle the packaging that you do bring home.
• Don’t use disposable dinnerware.
• Carpool if you are traveling for the holiday, or use public transportation if possible. Thanksgiving is one the heaviest traveled times of year in the United States. Staying off the roads as much as possible will also keep stress to a minimum!

For more information on what you can do to reduce your environmental impact this Thanksgiving (and any other day of the year), click here.

For tips on how you can reduce your impact on global warming, please visit www.fightglobalwarming.com.

To read more about this and other environmental health issues, go to: www.environmentalhealthnews.org, www.ourstolenfuture.org, or www.healthandenvironment.org