You probably know people who have said, “Gosh, it would be great to go green!” but somehow they never seem to get there. It’s not surprising; where do you start? There is a plethora of information, for example, on toxic chemicals that exist throughout the home, in furnishings, cleaning products and even toys. Then there are the actions all consumers can take, such as curtailing disposal of plastics, to help save our oceans. How about knocking out the chemical pesticides and fertilizers from the garden? And, of course, there’s putting the family on a healthy, sustainable diet, which is not only great for them but doesn’t contribute to environmentally dangerous industrial agriculture.
Enter the Green Guide, issued by Delicious Living magazine. It’s a single source for anyone who wants to start going green. The mission of the Green Guide is to be an everyday resource for people, something they can print out and keep handy. The idea is to make green choices simpler, rather than more complex.
“With the Green Guide, we wanted to put together a showcase of the very best information that we’ve published in our magazine, in an easy-to-use format,” Radha Marcum, Delicious Living editor in chief, told Organic Connections. “It’s based on everyday-living categories of food, home, beauty, and others.”
The guide’s articles profile the benefits of specific areas of green living both for the user and for the environment. For example, the section entitled “Eco Eating: Food Choices for a Healthier Planet—and a Healthier You” not only details a healthier diet through limiting processed foods, balancing meat and plant-based foods, and eating locally and seasonably, but also provides statistics on how doing so will aid our faltering ecology. In our current system, food travels an average of 1,500 miles from field to fork; US agriculture emits about 925 billion pounds of carbon dioxide annually; and packaging is responsible for emitting 24,200 tons of greenhouse gases every year.
In addition to creating a green diet, there are highly informative sections for helping save our oceans, detoxing the home (including indoor air, surfaces, water, and the yard), green cleaning basics, reducing packaging waste, baby and child products, and even eco-friendly pet care.
“Green living is something that has been core to Delicious Living’s mission from the get-go,” Marcum said. “A lot of people think about green living and say, ‘Oh, I need to buy a Prius, or take other major steps to fulfill this green ideal.’ For us, it just goes back to the message of healthy living in everything that you do, every choice that you make at the store, everything that you put into your body. It has an impact not only on personal health but on planetary health. Often those things are interlinked.”
Best of all, Delicious Living’s Green Guide is available free of charge! It can be downloaded right from the Organic Connections website here.
Spread the Green Guide far and wide, and let’s get everyone going green.
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