There are many soaps on the market that are "green" and will not cause your hands to split and crack - anything aloe vera based is great.(And how much are you washing your hands? Over washing and washing in too hot or too cold water will cause cracking and splitting) Follow up each handwashing with lotion and you should be fine.
(make sure that it is lotion derived from natural sources and not tested on animals - please) The nature of our "bioenginnered" world will make most "organic" fruit taste somewhat less sweet but also, as we age - our taste buds change and sweetness of foods is one of those things that changes! Most commerically grown fruit has been bioenginered to some point so that it grows larger, longer, sweeter and brighter than the way nature entended it too (many of these bio enginered foods reak havoc on our blood sugar) - as well - some "organic" fruit is picked before ripeness to ensure its "shelf life" is alittle longer so you may be getting a piece of immature fruit! Pesticides change the taste of anything they come in contact with and since the creation of them for mass commerical growers - our tastebuds have "adapted" to them.
Going Green will seem "unfamiliar" or "strange tasting" for about the first 90 days or so. I wish I could help out with the cost issue but until we, as communities, get together and return to such things as city co-ops, community owned and farmed gardens - the cost will be high and will continue to rise as big government jumps on the "organic" band wagon (and it already has to some extent). I personally, will hock something if need be, in order to ensure that my family is eating only the natural elements (seed bearing fruits and plants and all natural forms of chicken, beef, goat and bison) from this earth and our Higher Power.
I have put in my own garden and have chickens. I would suggest planting your own garden and hiring some younger folks to come help you tend it but I'm not sure where you live or if this is an option for you. The money you spend on the help will be FAR LESS than the money you will spend at the store buying "organic" or "all natural" fruits and veggies.
Wishing you success, long life and happiness! Posted at 3:50PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Leslie I too am trying to go green on a budget. The one thing I won't skimp on is milk.
Non-organic milk contains so much hormones. That and non-organic chicken are wrecking havoc on our young girls. My 4 year old daughter use to drink about 1 gallon every 2 days.
When I read that the earlier estrogen is introduced into a girls body the higher chance of breast cancer I stopped regular milk cold turkey. Tell me (for those of you over 30), when you were growing up were girls shaped the way they are now? Occassionally you might see a over-developed girl but now a days it is common to see size 0 12 year olds with D cups.
Posted at 4:35PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Liz I am SO SICK of this "Go Green" crap. Stop PREACHING at me about going GREEN! Who cares?
Why has this become like some kind of weird cult? What is the point? I love the outdoors, don't litter, and conserve things, but simply because conserving saves money.
I care about the environment, but within REASON. Far too many people in this modern world have become absurd alarmists. Conserve water?
Why? It friggin' FALLS FROM THE SKY!!
! Come on people. Wake up, grow up.
.. whatever you need to do.
There is NO REAL EVIDENCE that any "global warming" is caused by humans. All of the computer models indicating long term disasters from global warming are just that: WORST CASE SCENARIO COMPUTER MODELS. Hell, forcasters can't even tell us what the weather is going to be 10 days from now, let alone 50 to 100 years from now.
Get your heads out of your butts! Environmentalism is nothing but a socialism/communism front. Posted at 4:49PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Josh Going green can be as simple as getting an energy star rated dish washer.
The average load of hand washed dishes can use over 20 gallons of water! Compare that to only 7 gallons of water in a dish washer. Most people think that hand washing your dishes saves water but really it is the opposite!
Posted at 4:58PM on Jul 5th 2007 by katiepeavy80 Some great ideas here, we should all make an effort to adapt some. I've got to comment on the hormones in milk. Even if a dairy farmer uses the growth hormone to make his cow produce more milk, there is no way that it ever gets in the milk!
! You have milk processers trying to start this story that it is in there so they can raise the price of their "hormone-free" milk and people will buy it. And because the public isn't aware of the fact, they believe it.
Buy organic if you like, I have nothing against that, but if it is because there are hormones in "regular" milk, that just isn't so. It is just another scare tactic and minipulation of unspecting consumers by business to increase profit. Posted at 5:56PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Holly Cassidy Looking to "Go Green" at an affordable cost?
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gnld.net/helenjones (Go to "Your Vitality" then the "Home Care" section.) Posted at 6:51PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Helen Jones There are many soaps on the market that are "green" and will not cause your hands to split and crack - anything aloe vera based is great.
(And how much are you washing your hands? Over washing and washing in too hot or too cold water will cause cracking and splitting) Follow up each handwashing with lotion and you should be fine.
