Inspired

Today I decided to talk about my blog. In my first post I told you what this blog was for, but I never that you who inspired me to create it.

Ever since I was younger I have always been interested in planets. I use to collect books on the solar system. I don't know why I loved planets so much; I guess it was cool learning about the things outside of this planet. As I started getting older I became interested in learning about Earth but I started getting real eco-friendly in grade six. My class was doing a debate on whether the earth needed us or if we needed the earth. In the end I realized that we needed the earth. There are places the are uninhabited by humans such are doing better or just fine without us. So why is it that we abuse the earth and take large amounts of resources and not put them back? This is when I started taking reusing reducing and recycling seriously. During sixth grade I started giving into fashion magazines and in seventh grade I brought my first copy of Seventeen Magazine. I decided to buy the April 2010 issue of seventeen and I am glad that I did because it inspired me to do this blog. In the issue there was an article on 17 ways to go green. I was so inspired to help the planet, but I had some trouble figuring out what to do, then I came up with creating a blog and posting, posts helping people help the environment.

In the comments tell me what inspires you.

Preparation for right now less cow

To prepare for the right now less cow challenge I have done a couple of things.

I told my mom that was going to happen so that she would know not to cook meat for me.
She was totally happy I was doing this challenge beause

• she wouldn`t have to spent money on meat for me
• and she wouldn`t have to make dinner everyday for me since It will probably have meat in it.

I create a list of meals I would like to try during this challenge
eggplant burgers
pasta
breakfast burritos
veggie sandwich
pasta salad
crepes
lasagne
homemade pizza
sheprads pie
spaghetti
beans and pita bread
peanut salad
rice salad

I will probably not be trying all thoses meals but I want to have an idea of what to make everyday.

Right Now Less Cow Intro

Ok so I have decided that starting on Sunday or June 13 I am going to eat not meat for a week. I have personally always wanted to be a vegetarian but I love meat too much so I will try it out for a week. If it works out maybe I will become a vegetarian, but at least for now I am trying. You are probably wondering how this has a connection to helping the environment, well it takes a lot of work and money to raise an animal.

Livestock already uses 30% of Earth’s ice-free land either as pasture or as cropland used to grow feed for the livestock. Half of the cropland in the United States is used to feed livestock. The need for additional land for pasture is responsible for deforestation. In Latin America, more than 70% of forests have been converted to pastures for grazing livestock.

Planting, fertilizing and harvesting grain like corn to feed livestock requires a lot of energy. And, given that it takes about 7 pounds of grain to grow 1 pound of beef, we can start to see how choosing meat over veggies is far more costly in terms of energy and CO2.

And that’s not the end of it. Energy is needed to transport livestock to meat processing plants. Energy is needed at the packing plants to produce and package the meat. And then more energy is needed to transport the meat from packing plants to your grocery. Almost all of that energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the meat you eat probably isn’t coming from a farm just down the road.

When you eat less meat, you save fossil fuel and keep more greenhouse gases out of Earth’s atmosphere.

By the way I got the last four paragraphs from carbonrally.com

If you want to participate all you have to do is go for it. I will be doumenting everything from what I ate to how my day felt so you can read how the challenge is going for me. If you want everyday when I leave a post you can talk about your day and what you ate in the comments.

One again if you want to participate with me I am starting June 13- June 20

*credit goes to carbonrally


Carbonrally Website

Link to Exact challenge