It is this time of the year again when we celebrate and meet with friends and family and Thanksgiving is a first step in the long period of festivities. So don’t forget to keep it green and to help you with it, below are a few tips on how to color this year’s holidays green:
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Buy sustainable food—e.g. free-range or humanely raised turkey, which are becoming increasingly available and affordable. Take it one step further and buy heritage breed turkey, which strays away from the standardized factory turkeys promoting biodiversity.
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Buy your food locally—this way will allow you to reduce youcarbon footprint by cutting down on the distance your food would travel. Moreover, it supports the local farmers, who in general use more eco-conscious methods of farming than the big corporations. And you get the freshest produce available. If you don’t know where in your area there is a farmers market, go to Local Harvest, a site that connects consumers with locally grown food.
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Reduce waste—by skipping the ready-made or boxed meals and cooking them yourself from scratch. Moreover, you can compost your food waste instead of discarding it in the regular trash.
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Use green storage containers—store your leftovers in either glass or the good plastic containers. For more information about how to buy plastic containers and what types of plastic are good, go to Plastic Recycling Symbols, Buying a New Plastic Container and Buying a New Plastic Container- part II.
And for more tips on eco-friendly Thanksgiving, go to Green Thanksgiving
Tags: free-range turkey, green thanksgiving, sustainable thanksgiving food
