Love the way nature serves us

by Damla Eytemiz

 A sunny Friday… Wind comes and goes… Definitely a good day for outdoor activities…

I love the nature and I love the way it serves us… However, I believe we should give something back to it if we want this world to last long.

I am reading a lot about ways to save the world and to go green. Today I am going to share five ways how to save the world.

1-    Share the car: We are all producers and consumers. So let's think more about the earth and be more gentle to it so that all the generations will enjoy at least as much as we do. Why don’t we start sharing cars? You can share your car with your wife, husband, kid or a friend or neighbors. It won’t only mean the total mileage will be less but maintaining one car instead of two will certainly be less expensive and will require less energy. With the money you save, it is possible to make many OHMazing choices. There were an estimated 255 million registered passenger vehicles in US in 2007.

2-    Electric Companies: If you can, choose an electric company that offers energy from renewable sources. Then, you will help the earth to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases that is due to fossil fuels; coal, oil, natural gas.

3-    Avoid buying too much: Don’t buy things that you will want to get rid of quickly. We all go to malls, shops and come with things we really don’t want to buy. All the advertisements and all the marketing make us buy the things we actually don’t need or it is not on the priority list. When you do grocery, if you know you can’t consume a lot, please think twice. Eggs, milk, vegetables, meat, fruits are all perishables. So, excessive amount of buying will end up putting the items in trash in a couple of days.

4-    Go for Organic Coffee: If you are a coffee drinker, go for organic coffee. US sales of organic coffee were $89 million in 2005 and the number is increasing more each year. If you are not a coffee lover, you are more than welcome to skip #4 giving yourselves a high five.

5-    Check the chemicals: Our laundries, kitchens, bathrooms are all full of chemical products whether we see or not. Please check the products you use and read the content labels whether they are harmful to the environment or not.

6-    Keep up with Yoginos…. Do Yoga…. Make it an inseparable part of your life.

Damla Eytemiz is from Turkey and she is trilingual in Turkish, English and German. She started Yoga in 2010, and she has been doing Pilates since 2007. She loves sports and thinks kids should put “Yoga” in their lives so that they can readily work through life’s challenges and be happier kids.