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This is the Fourth of July weekend where you make a break from stale old traditions and start some fresh and renewable and sustainable practices. Instead of sitting around the living room texting the people you see every day, you might pair getting involved and close to family at the same time.
Get moving in a sustainable direction and safeguard the future while enjoying family time. It might be time to celebrate your family’s independence from the prison of consumer culture. The tradition of sustainable living will be redeeming when kids pass it on to their kids (when aluminum cans are no longer being made).
1. Take A Walk.
Get the whole family out for a stroll. Without staring at the boob tube, or playing computer games, or texting, or nursing at the breast of the mobile phone pacifier, get the whole family walking off those emulsified ice cream fats and the meat casing binders on the hot dogs. Big holidays meals can be offset with hours of walking that cost no electricity and leave off on the AC.
2. Gather Ye Recyclables While Ye May
Get a pair or group of kids with bags and at least one supervising adult and go on a recycling gathering trip. Recapturing recyclable bottles and cans and other containers for extra pocket change is smart exercise. If you do this the day after the Fourth of July you might start that college fund.
3. Fill the Freezer
Energy re-use makes a filled freezer keep the refrigerator efficiency work better. If your crowd doesn’t dig the potato salad allow yourself a free lunch for the enxt week. Make sure some leftovers get the cold freeze treatment and help your appliance return more energy use value. If you have extra food left over try to give it to neighbors or those in need.
4. Go Whole Foods
Mixing and cooking takes a lot of containers and packaging and mix packets and electricity and re-working food in containers that need washing. Serving single dish entrees or dinners with finger food crudites or plain vegetables saves on exta calories, mixing and preparing. Imagine buying your entire holiday feast in one bag from the store, because that’s all you’ll need.
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