Healthy Living and Being Kind

To be healthy physically and mentally, one needs to be kind to his fellowing human beings.

To be healthy physically and mentally, one needs to be kind to other living things.

To be healthy physically and mentally, one needs to be kind to his environment.

Green Drinks Singapore

About Green Drinks Singapore

Website: http://sggreendrinks.wordpress.com/

Founded in November 2007, Green Drinks Singapore is a non-profit environmental group that seeks to connect the community, businesses, activists, academia and government, as well as plug the information gap that exists in the local landscape. We do this by organising informal talks every last Thursday of the month to allow opportunities for information sharing and networking, over drinks! Once in a while, we hold discussions, documentary screenings and workshops to further engage the public and participants.

Singapore is one of more than 710 cities with a Green Drinks presence. Started in 1989 in London, the Green Drinks movement is a self-organising network that is meant to be simple and unstructured. The global site can be found at www.greendrinks.org.

Do come join us at our sessions, which is held on the last Thursday of every month (except Christmas). Our location may vary from month-to-month, so do contact Olivia at olivia@greendrinkssingapore.com or +65 96887449 for more information.
Everyone is welcome, and admission is free! We’d love to meet you!

Be sure to join our Facebook group, and follow our tweets on Twitter!

Info Source: http://sggreendrinks.wordpress.com/

Plant-based diets are better for the environment

Plant-based diets are better for the environment than those based on meat.

By going vegetarian (or eat less meta) you will help:

• Avoid excessive CO2 production

• Reduce methane/nitrous oxide production

• Save large amounts of water

• Avoid polluting our streams/rivers/oceans

• Reduce destruction of topsoil & tropical rainforest

• Reduce the destruction of wildlife habitats & endangered species

• Reduce the use of antibiotics, growth promoters and chemicals

To find out Why it’s Green to Go Vegetarian visit http://www.vegsoc.org/environment/index.html to find out more

This post is adapted from http://www.vegsoc.org/news/2009/copenhagen.html

What are Greenhouse gases? (energystar.custhelp.com)

Greenhouse gases are gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. These gases raise the temperature of the earth through the "greenhouse effect".

Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would not be warm enough for humans to live.

But if the greenhouse effect becomes too strong because more greenhouse gases are being emitted, it could cause problems for humans, plants, and animals.

Greenhouse gases are produced through both natural processes and human activities. Water vapor is an example of a greenhouse gas that occurs naturally.

The principal greenhouse gases that enter the atmosphere because of human activities are: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

In the US, our energy-related activities account for over three-quarters of our human-generated greenhouse gas emissions, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.

More than half the energy-related emissions come from large sources such as power plants and factories, while about a third comes from transportation.

Industrial processes (such as the production of cement, steel, and aluminum), agriculture, other land use, and waste management are also important sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

Info Source: http://energystar.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/energystar.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5364

What is a carbon footprint? (defined by carbonfootprint.com)

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change.

It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.

The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Info Source: http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html

100 Thing Challenge by Dave Bruno

100 Thing Challenge is an interesting and environmental friendly website started by Dave Bruno so that he will live with only 100 personal things for one full year, until November 12, 2009.

“The 100 Thing Challenge is my little way to personalize my efforts to fight consumerism,” said Dave.

To me his ‘100 Thing Challenge’ helps save our environment and helps us lead simple life style.

Dave should also include “Eat only simple healthy food and practice Calorie Restriction” in his ‘100 Thing Challenge’ List.