Eco Living Info » organic food http://www.ecolivinginfo.com Great Ideas for Living Eco-Friendly Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:32:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 What are the first steps in being more "green" or earth friendly when living in an apartment? http://www.ecolivinginfo.com/green-living/what-are-the-first-steps-in-being-more-green-or-earth-friendly-when-living-in-an-apartment http://www.ecolivinginfo.com/green-living/what-are-the-first-steps-in-being-more-green-or-earth-friendly-when-living-in-an-apartment#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:23:14 +0000 admin http://www.ecolivinginfo.com/green-living/what-are-the-first-steps-in-being-more-green-or-earth-friendly-when-living-in-an-apartment Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> My husband and I live in a small apartment, and want to know the basics for living green. Any tips?

The key is reduce, reuse, recycle.

Reduce your purchases (of stuff and of energy). We have been encouraged to be super consumers in recent years but much of what we buy is unnecessary stuff which quickly ends up in landfill. Our parents were perfectly happy with far less stuff and keeping up with the neighbours is the cause of a great deal of stress. It also requires us to work more hours to earn the money to buy the stuff, whereas greater happiness could be achieved by spending the time with family and friends.

Reuse stuff that still has life in it rather than replace it because it is a little shabby or out of date. Learn to repair. Again keeping up with the neighbours is stressful whereas there is great satisfaction in repairing.

Recycle stuff that can no longer be reused.

Living in an apartment you will not have a lot of spare space so I recommend you Google "freecycle" and your town (for example freecycle toronto). It will probably lead you to a community of people that advertise spare stuff for collection by members of the community that can make use of it. It is a great way of reducing what goes to landfill.

Finally I recommend fresh organic food cooked at home.

I am glad you are looking for ways to be more green. Best wishes.

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Are there health food stores in San Juan?

in our culture pork is a must in the main menu, we do eat unhealthy fatty foods, but for instance not everyone is the same (my mom and son are veggie persons) they eat no meat and dairy products at all, so they eat organic food. I recommend you go to supermarkets such as Amigo, Pueblo, or Walmart and there is a section of organic foods. You wont find organic foods around in hotels or resturants that have organic foods. there are naturalist supermarkets (only a few), I live in bayamon and in the main route 167, you will find a few of these natural organic little shops. if you ask store locals they will help you.

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