3 Key Benefits: Eco Friendly Living & Eco Friendly Lifestyle

Key Benefit 2: Our Environment, Planet Earth is Healed and the Damage is Reversed

Eco awareness and taking sustainable and non sustainable natural resources into account in our daily lives is a game changer.

Our Mother Earth is facing many environmental concerns. To name some: global warming; acid rain; air pollution; urban sprawl; waste disposal; ozone layer depletion; water pollution; climate change. These affect every human, animal and nation on planet Earth.

The exploitation of our planet and degradation of our environment increases at an alarming rate. Our actions do not protect this planet. We see natural disasters more often, in the form of flash floods, tsunamis and cyclones.

“I predict that we’ll view plastic bags as one of the greater environment abuses of our time.”

Do we want to submit to the greed of uncaring people. And, keeping in mind, irrespective of whether they are aware or not, of the impact of their actions?

Keeping in mind those perpetrating the destruction are possibly not consciously behaving as they are. We, the ones who have become aware, are fortunate to have become eco aware. And by standing together we’re able to spread eco awareness, each in our own way, big or small.

Let’s each choose our way to counteract destruction. 

Besides no one else would be as passionate about the environment as we would. Remember it is not the duty of anyone or any institution or any government to affect change.

We do it out of choice, out of our passions. People who are ready, join in and participate. Together we are able to do more than waiting for someone else to affect change.

We each have complementary temperaments and talents to contribute, instead of getting angry, irritable and frustrated. This is easily achieved in numbers – many hands make light work.

Though it seems impossible, by creating awareness, it is enough.

Even though the perpetrators are many, have lots of money and have many resources! As the message is passed on from one person to another, eco awareness would reach a tipping point.

Those who don’t care or who are unaware, would over time merely dissipate.

The sea and rain finally erode the hardest rock and mountain sides: Gracefully and peacefully, anything and everything is possible!

In Niagara Falls, New York in 1978, controversy was raging over the Love Canal. Countless tons of toxic, chemical wastes had been dumped years before in the abandoned canal. A school had been built alongside the dump site and housing developments had been built around it.

Chemicals from the canal had leached into lawns, playgrounds, and even into the basements of houses in the neighborhood. Frightened citizens were demanding government action which stalled – asking for more time and more studies.

Dr. Beverly Paigen was a biologist, geneticist, and cancer research scientist at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute. It is a world-famous research hospital in Buffalo and part of the New York State Department of Health (DOH).

The health concerns of the Love Canal citizens were the very subject of her research interests. She studied family patterns of genetic reaction to chemicals. She develop easy and efficient methods of assessing health hazards from chemical exposure of the environment.

The Love Canal homeowners needed scientific expertise to give them authority in pursuing their case with the government’s scientific bureaucracy. As a result, a close working relationship developed between the homeowners and Dr. Paigen.

She was their scientific advisor and consultant. The homeowners became the source of her data, as well as data gatherers, for her research. This did not sit well with government authorities, who were trying to keep the lid on all scientific data and analysis.

Soon, Dr. Paigen found herself being subjected to petty harassment. She was a senior scientist engaged in basic research at the institute. She decided the areas of her research.

The government could not stop her. They could have made her life miserable in many ways including a state tax audit. Or deny her, her research grant.

She persisted in her mission and freely expressed her findings and expert opinion. To the health bureaucracy as well as to the public, the press, the governor, and the U.S. Congress. Finally, the state followed Dr. Paigen’s guidance and relocated all the Love Canal residents.

Moreover, although the state health bureaucracy had criticized her research, they ended up adopting its results as their own. Her larger contributions focused national attention on the health hazards of toxic waste. Along with the persistent citizens of Love Canal, we owe her our deepest gratitude.

We live cruelty free by not slaughtering animals. All our actions and behaviour is eco friendly.