Green Living is more than just recycling or attempting to cut down on waste in your house. True green living will have a large affect on just about every aspect of your life. It can include eating a healthier diet consisting of as many foods grown or made locally as possible. This will help keep you healthy and also cut down on the negative effects of having to have food transported great distances. It can also include driving a car with better gas mileage, or taking public transportation. Even things like making wise purchase decisions when shopping to pick options which don’t use excessive packaging, or else use only recycled or biodegradable.
There is an endless list of thing you can improve when looking at green living. Even just encouraging companies you do business with to make more environmentally friendly decisions, or learning more about renewable energy can have a bigger effect than most people would expect.