how you can shop more sustainably and save the planet
what is a sustainable lifestyle? How to live sustainably?
近年來，我們越來越意識到我們在這個星球上留下的環境足跡，作為對我們過去和現在的行為對周圍環境造成的所有後果的回應。不可否認的是，我們對這個世界產生了影響，並且有必要盡快改變它，而這正是永續生活發揮作用的地方。
您可能會問，什麼是永續生活？好吧，永續生活包括我們在日常生活中採取的行動，以將我們對環境的影響降至最低, either by eating a sustainable diet, finding ways to reduce waste, consuming fewer things we don’t need… 當談到更永續和環保的生活方式時，我們有很多選擇可供選擇。
我們將討論您現在可以在舒適的家中執行此操作的幾種方法因為實現永續的生活方式並不難，您所要做的就是有興趣和關心來開始改變您的行為。
總之，永續的生活方式旨在減少我們對這個星球的環境足跡，我們每天的粗心行為正在可悲地摧毀一個我們永遠無法取代的世界。我們強烈建議您先查看如何在家中保持可持續飲食。
buy local | consider small businesses
One of the best ways to shop sustainably is to buy local, prioritizing small businesses. Not only are you helping your local economy, entrepreneurs, and small families that risk a lot just to fulfill your needs every day, but you are also buying from people that produce their goods and services sustainably.
This is because small farmers and other types of businesses use more sustainable practices to produce their products, and the local farmer cares for its stock and treats it a lot more ethically and sustainably, the same holds true for the crops they grow. You are also saving the environment by demanding products that do not require such large transportations that have quite a carbon footprint over the long run.
Overall, buying local is one of the best things you can do to shop more sustainably and ethically, and it is much easier to cut down your environmental footprint by just buying locally. Combine this with reducing the plastic packaging of the products you buy, and you got yourself a winner sustainable shopping strategy.
sustainable diet | shop for food sustainably
永續飲食是一種注重健康食品、對環境影響很小且碳足跡較低的飲食。 It’s a diet that even if it promotes a healthy living style, it does focus a lot more on the environmental impact our food choices have and plans to reduce them to a minimum improving the overall life of our society and future generations.
這是因為目前食品工業的生產量約為 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and uses about two-thirds of the water usage worldwide, which is a tremendous amount even if we take into consideration how big of an industry this is (We all got to eat right?).
You see now why many people are eating more sustainably and why it matters so much, but right now you may be wondering how you can begin to eat more sustainably from the comfort of your home, how you can begin to shop for food more sustainably, do not worry, luckily for you we have some tips so you can begin changing your environmentally unfriendly diet to an environmentally friendly and healthy one. Having said this, here are some tips so you can begin to shop for food more sustainably, with respect for the planet:
- 多吃水果和蔬菜，這些不僅是每個人飲食中都應該包含的健康選擇，也是最好的環保選擇之一。與其他類型的食物相比，這些食物產生的氣體排放量要低得多，而且需要的資源也更少，因此，您可以隨意吃盡可能多的水果和蔬菜！現在你知道為什麼當你小時候媽媽告訴你要吃蔬菜時你應該聽她的話。
- 避免高度加工食品， these are not only very bad for your health but their production and transportation have a big environmental footprint that you want to avoid taking part in. Always prioritize foods that are natural and unprocessed, you don’t have to exaggerate though (Don’t go out there eating vegetables directly out of the dirt).
- 嘗試在當地購買， as we said earlier, this is a great option because generally, it doesn’t matter as much what you eat because it is produced locally, on small farms, which always has a less environmental footprint than conventional supermarkets imported industrial foods, it also saves the carbon footprint transportation leaves. Plus, you are supporting small businesses from your local town or city, which is always a great thing.
- 選擇可持續的海鮮， marine life is a great choice for our diets, it has many great nutrients that improve our health and lifespan overall, however, you should be careful when choosing seafood. Overexploitation is a very big problem for marine life as a whole, so you should try to buy seafood grown with aquaculture or captured artisanally, which is a sustainable and conscious way of consuming seafood.
- 減少你的浪費， buy only what you will eat and never throw out any food (this is a no-brainer), you should also compost the organic waste and avoid using plastics and single-use materials to package and store your food. This is a whole subject to talk about in itself, so if you want to learn more about it feel free to check the 聯合國如何減少食物浪費的文章。
These five tips on how to have a sustainable diet at home should work out fine, there are many other tips but as always we have presented you with the most important ones. 既然您知道可以在家中開始做什麼來實現更永續的飲食，那麼是時候採取行動了！
Did you know there are a ton of healthy and sustainable options for people that do not have the time or skills to cook a great meal, that delivers straight to your door every day? Read our article on the Sustainable Diet to find out!
slow fashion | how to fight fast fashion
One of the most important aspects of our lives that we need to change is how we treat the clothes we wear. Unfortunately, an alarmingly large amount of people do not know the real consequences that the current Fast Fashion industry has on our planet, most people do not even know what Fast Fashion is in the first place! So to refresh a little bit the subject, here is why Fast Fashion is destroying the planet:
Fast Fashion was born in the 90s, it is a business model that quickly tracks trends and turns them into clothes as fast as possible that are available for the customers to buy. It uses short manufacturing cycles that are very harmful to the environment and the workers and produces low-quality clothing that makes customers buy more and more, feeding consumerism and the buy-n-throw culture that pollutes our soil and waters with all the disposal that is generated from these thrown garments.
It produces 10% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and 20% of global wastewaters that pollute rivers and seas. Furthermore, 85% of all Fast Fashion garments are thrown in landfills each year, which combined with the fact that these garments are made from harmful, synthetic, and non-biodegradable materials, is a very scary fact. What’s worse, its terrible quality clothes, which are usually made from polyester, decompose leaving microplastics that will further pollute our waters and soil.
Here is where Slow Fashion comes into play: This anti-fast fashion model focuses on producing clothes with respect for the environment, people, and society. It uses short manufacturing cycles and 公平貿易, which is a system of certification that aims to ensure a set of standards are met in the production and supply of a product or ingredient, being the total opposite of Fast Fashion. This goes hand-in-hand with Ethical Fashion, respecting the workers and all the agents involved in the production process of the fashion garments.
Slow Fashion also searches for clothes that are produced with minimal environmental impact, and this is where Sustainable Fashion comes in. It searches for clothes that are made from biodegradable and organic materials, like organic ring-spun cotton and recycled materials, also producing high-quality garments avoiding unnecessary consumerism and the bu-n-throw culture that pollutes our soil and waters when the garments are thrown.
Overall, changing our fashion habits is one of the most important and forgotten things we need to do to achieve an environmentally friendly lifestyle and live sustainably, while also caring for our other fellow human beings and the future generations that will have to live on this wonderful and unique planet. We have a ton of articles regarding the matter, so feel free to check our blog out or just the articles linked in the summary 🙂
概括
We hope you have learned a little bit more about how to live sustainably and more ethically. Living sustainably is not that hard, the only thing you need to do is to start, and inform yourself on how to sustainably change your day-to-day choices, only then you will be able to change your habits for the better.
我們很高興能夠向世界各地的人們傳授知識 🙂 另外，你真的知道什麼是快時尚及其對環境、地球、工人、社會和經濟的可怕後果嗎？您確切知道慢時尚或永續時尚運動是什麼嗎？你真的應該看看這些關於這個被遺忘和未知但非常緊迫和重要的主題的文章，點擊此處閱讀“時尚能否永續發展？”,永續時尚,道德時尚,慢時尚或者快時尚101 |它是如何摧毀我們的星球的因為知識是你可以擁有的最強大的優勢之一，而無知是你最大的弱點。
