Sometimes we have to examine the usage of the word 'Eco' with a bit more
insight.
People may try eating a few traditional things on a coconut shell for
that function only; after they go back home, they will carry on eating
on plastic or glass ware regardless. Can't really blame anyone, it is
just too impractical to use coconut shells for eating.
Also, if everyone ate their meals on banana leaves, a simple maths
exercise would easily prove this to be an unsustainable practise and
that there would be no banana trees left in India in no time. And with
less photosynthesis, I wonder where on earth the bananas would get their
nutrients....
What would make 'Eco' sense would be to recreate the old practises of
packing food into simple, non plastic packaging. If people would take
jars/cloth bags to the local shops to get them refilled with grains,
rice, veggies, etc. then it would make more sense. A step further, once
could grow own vegetables on back gardens, reuse rain water, compost,
insulate houses sensibly, use more solar/wind energy and turn kitchen
bottles upside down for that 'last drop' when they are nearly finished!
Even designed my Porvorim flat so that the breeze alone with just two
windows open, ventilates the whole area without any need of any fans.
I would call al this a proper usage of the word 'Eco'.
Regards,
JP
"The more you know, the less you know, because the more you know you
don't know". --M. Lin
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