Site of the Day for Wednesday, November 21, 2001 EarthEasy
The List offers a site which may make most of us feel guilty, in one way or another. Are you a devotee of natural fiber clothing? Modern cotton farming uses more pesticides than any other non-food crop. Using disposable diapers for your wee ones? 10,000 tons of disposable diapers go into landfills each day and can take up to 500 years to decompose. Enjoying a hamburger for lunch? Almost half the grain grown in the U.S. is used for livestock, which also uses half the water consumption in the country. Just having a cup of coffee? Sun grown coffee has accounted for a 20% decline in migratory bird populations in the last ten years, due to habitat loss. (all data from the website) Don't despair; EarthEasy has alternative suggestions. This visually pleasing and thoughtfully designed site from author Greg Seaman strives to "help us reduce our impact on the earth's resources; bring more simplicity to our lives; help us spend less and enjoy more; bring us closer to nature." - from the website With practical suggestions for saving energy, for family and earth friendly recreation, recipes of benefit to your health as well as the earth's, there is much to be learned from this website which conveys the knowledge of someone who has cheerfully lived in an earth friendly way for twenty years. Actually, that's the operative word for this site - it's cheerful. So chirp your way over to the website, collect a few facts and perhaps even make a few changes. Shade coffee, anyone? http://eartheasy.com/homepage.htm A.M. Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SotD Ashlists archives - http://www.mail-archive.com/site-of-the-day@ashlists.org/ SotD Website - http://www.ashlists.org/sotd/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the BODY type: unsubscribe site-of-the-day