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What Can I do to help the Environment?

By Mike ⋅ October 15, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I have recycled and reused, I have bought the special bulbs and the reusable water bottle etc, etc….. What else is there to do? What can I actually do to help save the environment?

I can join the movement… the simplicity movement. I can strive to live simple and resist the trillion dollar advertising machine that tells me to buy my happiness with the latest and greatest (fill-in-the-blank).

The movement has many leaders, books, and blogs showing the way to happiness through less instead of more, to simple over complex, to green over destructive.

I was introduced to the movement with a gift of “Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter“. After reading this book I started to see things a little different and have since found many other great books and resources that all talk about simplicity in some way or another.

I think that living simple with less is the single most important thing that we as a country and culture can embrace. We consume too much, we waste too much, and it is all just too much.

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This post is my participation in Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers around the world write about one topic, in this case, the environment.

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One comment for “What Can I do to help the Environment?”

  1. I found your blog via Zen Habits and wanted to say “kudos!” and share my perspective.

    Simplicity is indeed transformative in all it’s applications, even for our government.

    Save the Earth. Shut down the EPA.

    Posted by Rob D. | October 15, 2007, 1:15 pm

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