Caroline Heng, Singapore
- Rejecting Plastic Bags, as often as possible
- Bringing my handy cloth bags out with me (Most plastics are bio-degradable, but why bother when most items are handy or fits into our bags?)
- Recycling paper carriers & plastic bags- Started a program within my company to recycle paper. Making it acceptable for formal internal documents, as well as encouraging double sided printing.
- As much as possible, requesting for electronic documents instead of printed ones
- Reduction of water wastage (Mom uses laundry water to scrub kitchen floors during its cycles)
Whho, Singapore
- Reduce wastage. Turn off electricity from appliances when not needed. Use energy saving bulbs.- I am a vegetarian. This cuts demand of meat produced, which cuts excessive farming needed to support lifestock in meat factories = Less cutting down forests for crop activity & less methane (Earth Warming) gases produced. Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/opinion/27wed4.html?ex=1170478800&en=7b8b1dc47fc20263&ei=5070 Meat and the Planet.
- I take public transport as much as possible. Reduces consumption of non-renewable energy resources and emissions of pollutants to the atmosphere.
- I will help educate as many people as possible about what we can do to help the Earth.- Please do watch National Geographic's "Earth Pulse 2006" and "The Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore for information about what's happening to the planet. The statistics will shock you!
Lizzie, My Healing Hands, Singapore
- My husband and I are full vegetarians. In the cause of the healing work that I do, i encourage and guide sentient beings to practice Compassion and Lovingkindness , as well as on( those who are appropriate vessels) the purpose and advantage of letting go of eating meat, to experience the being of physically, emotionally and spiritually uplifting.
- We don't fry our foods, and we reduce the usage of oil in our foods, therefore there is very little use for detergent/soap. We practice sleeping without airconditioning except for a fan even on hot days...
- We try to use as little plastic bags as possible... whenever appropriate, we try to bring our own container to buy food from outside. when we eat out like at a vegetarian buffet, we try our best to keep to using one or two plates, spoons and folks telling the waiters not to change our plates, so that they do not need to wash so many of them thus saving water, detergent and time. Unused Packets of sugar for tea and coffee, we will return them in good condition to the waiters so that they can still use them.
- We try our best to keep our lifestyle simple and have few committments, practising Mindfulness and Awareness in whatever we do... avoid harming little creatures, or big creatures therefore we do not keep any insecticide at home...
- We opt for informations via emails instead of brochures, leaflets or flyers.
- Due to our simple lifestyle, we are seldom ill... but if we are, we prefer not to rely on external medications for our flu, cold, sore throats, headaches.... and instead, we rely on self-healing with Reiki, meditation, spiritual practice, positive mind, a reasonable diet without extremities, and this has helped kept us away from the Doctors for many years..... and we aspire to maintain this regime on a long term basis... when one doesn't take care of one's body, speech and mind, it inevitably gets sick whether emotionally, physically or spiritually and then one may tend to rely on external medications to relieve oneself. The manufacturing of such "Drugs" does pollute our environment , infact on a very big scale... that many of us do not realize that it is affecting the inhabitants of this Earth on a global scale that it is beyond mere words.
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