What steps can
we take to protect the environment at home level?
1) Turn off the
coal power mains electricity to your home & install solar power.
2) Use any fossil
fuel motor vehicles as little as possible.
3) Grow your own
food (if you are keeping ducks in the garden you will need to use raised garden
beds or fence sections off & let the ducks in during off season).
4) Keep chooks
& ducks for eggs & meat.
5) Free range your
ducks in the garden area to kill the slogs & snails.
6) Start a compost
heap in your garden.
7) Feed all your veggie
scraps to the chooks & ducks, or, add them to you compost heap.
8) Grow fruit trees
& bushes.
9) Remove your
water toilets & install composting toilets.
10)Install a grey
water system that takes the water from the laundry, bathroom & kitchen into
deep trenches under you garden beds.
11) Purchase &
install rainwater storage tanks for house & garden & turn off the mains
water supply to your home. If you need to conserve water, use containers in
your kitchen sink for washing up & use this water on your trees.
12) Recycle as much
as possible yourself as recycling collection by the council may be just going
into landfill!
13) Try & avoid
purchasing food items in plastic wrap.
14)Try & avoid
purchasing anything in plastic bottles, choose glass over plastic.
15) DO NOT purchase
or accept any single use plastic items.
16)Choose glass or
ceramic containers over plastic when practical.
17) DO NOT purchase
poisons to kill weeds. Either dig them up by hand or use urine.
18) Only purchase
environmentally friendly washing soaps.
19)DO NOT use spray
cans of insect repellent or air fresheners.
20)
DO NOT burn coal.
21) DO NOT burn gas.
22)
Install a wood burning cook stove ( & heater if you
need to heat the house). Burning wood does create carbon emissions, but not as
much as coal, gas or using mains electricity. If you plant trees this should
offset these carbon emissions.
23)
DO NOT use an incinerator; put all biodegradables such as
lawn grass cuttings, weeds, leaves etc in the compost heap.
24)
Avoid purchasing anything that has to be transported by
truck, ship or plane.
25)
Avoid flying anywhere.
26)
Use a push mower if you have lawns to mow. A better
option is to turn your lawn into a veggie garden.
27)
Purchase second hand where you can.
28)
Move out of the city & live off grid if you can.
Keith.
