Diving Into the World of Sustainability

Living more sustainably is a process. Each day I feel I learn more and more about new sustainable practices I should be doing, and yet how does one find the time, money, and energy to implement all of these changes? I'm a busy working professional that also actively volunteers for different organizations. When I get home, I usually want to read a good novel or watch a sitcom; dinner should be easy and reheatable, and cleaning should be minimal. 

So, I'm here to document my journey along the path of sustainability. I find myself wanting to lead this path for several reasons: 

1. I care about what goes in my body. To me it seems like the rates of cancer and autism are skyrocketing. I want to live a long and healthy life, and produce healthy children. I want to know what I'm putting into my body and have the ability to those choices. 

2. I care about the environment. Right along with poisoning our bodies, we're also poisoning our planet. Should other species suffer for our convenience? I don't think so. I want to make impact on our earth minimal. I'd rather not have my biggest lasting impact on this earth be my carbon footprint. 

3. I want to share my triumphs and struggles with others and prove it can be done! 

There are so many ways to tackle sustainability in this world. There are activists, policy makers, teachers and more. I'm going to focus on what I'm doing with my personal life and in particular: 

1.Reducing the toxins in my home: this will include looking for less harmful cleaners and beauty products, looking for furniture, pillows, and other items without flame retardants and slowly switching over, and lastly trying to eliminate plastic as much as possible. It's petroleum based and who knows what's in there!

2. Eating locally and organically produced food as much as possible. This goes into so many different things including: reducing toxins from pesticides in my body, reducing farmers exposure to pesticides, and supporting the local economy. I long considered going 100% local, and it could be certainly an end goal, but I believe slowly phasing out will work better. 

3. Reduce my carbon emissions where possible. This means carpooling and buying carbon credits for flights, and finding other ways to reduce my carbon footprint! 

Well let's see how this journey goes!