Ecology for everyone — Food

It may seem that one person cannot change global warming and pollution in this dirty world. But if we do only small changes in our lives it can have big impact in large scale. And it is not about drastic changes like becoming a vegetarian or moving to the countryside to grow your own plants. In our everyday life there are small things that can help.

Use seasonal food from your region

Do you want to put strawberries into your smoothie in winter? Well think twice. If you live in a warm country where you can grow strawberries the whole year go ahead. But otherwise just think about the long journey this fruit had to go through to get in your local supermarket. If you switch for some local producers, you can be sure that this fruit had to travel only fraction of that route and thus created much less emissions. If you really can’t live without some fruit, buy more in the harvesting season and put it into the freezer (it would probably be turned on anyways).

Buy only as much as you can eat

Everyone wants to have a full fridge at home and have to decide what to eat when hungry. However this means you also buy stuff you will not eat before it expires and you just throw it out. Let’s think about it a second. You buy oranges that were grown in Africa, put into some plastic net, put into a container, wrapped with more plastic, put…