» Create a Superhealth Community. Post written by Leo Babauta. This article in the N.Y. Times about the superhealthy community on the little Greek island of Ikaria is enlightening. Ikarians are living much older than most other Westerners, and are healthy, active, purposeful and happy well into old age. What’s their secret?
Is it diet, or exercise, or no smoking, or a little bit of red wine? Sure, it’s a bit of those things, but more importantly, it’s the community. Ikarians live in a community where it is the norm to eat mostly plant foods (beans, potatoes, veggies from the garden), drink some wine with neighbors, walk everywhere, garden during the day, take naps in the afternoon, not stress about time, wake naturally, socialize with the community every day. The problem isn’t so much forming individual healthy habits, but forming a community that fosters healthy habits.
So what can we do if we’re in the wrong kind of community? Let’s look at our options. Outline of a Superhealth Community Interact daily. Recycle Tire Planter - Under $80.00. I saw the same photo on Pinterest that everyone else saw... you know the one with flowers flowing out of some colorful tires. I knew I had to do it!
I had five tires in my garage ironically enough, and after searching a friends place I found some smaller cute ones. I laid out the tires in the spot where I had pulled up a long above ground vegetable box. I went to Lowe's and bought some spray paint (actually made two trips, as I forgot the all important pink & orange!). What had me in a quandary for about a week, was what & how was I going to keep and hold the dirt in the tires without having to use a lot of soil, and just in the off case I might want to move them one day.
We played around with the design & color combinations for a few days until we finally come up with what we thought we wanted to do. Our morning started with Lemon trying to help us straighten out the burlap bags so we could cut them open. Voila! Supplies Used: 9 - Used Tires 5 - Plastic Burlap Feed Bags 10 - 40 lbs. » the minimalism of veganism. This post will strike a nerve with some readers, as many minimalists or aspiring minimalists are die-hard carnivores. They love their meat and don’t want to hear anything against it. Well, hear me out, please. If you could read to the end of the post before disagreeing, blasting me, or dismissing me, I’d be grateful. In this post I’ll tell you (briefly) why I chose veganism and how it is the diet I believe is most in line with minimalism. Minimal eating Veganism, simply defined, is abstaining from animal products, from meat and fish and poultry to dairy and eggs and other such products.
I also try for whole foods that are minimally processed, which means I mostly eat veggies, fruits, nuts, seeds, beans, some whole grains. This is a limited, minimal diet, and yet it can be incredibly satisfying and maximally flavorful. A small amount of ingredients. The most sustainable diet Eating only plants cuts that waste to a minimal amount, and is so much better for the environment. Minimal cruelty. 5 Ways to Create the Perfect World. Can there be such a thing as a perfect world? It is an ideal that many people think is unattainable. Surely, though, it is an ideal worth striving for. What is the worst that can happen if we fail to create the perfect world?
The answer is – a better world. What is a perfect world? What does a perfect world look like? You could ask these questions of thousands of people and get lots of different answers. Take steps towards creating your perfect world. What is your perfect world? To create a perfect world, it is going to take many people making small changes. So, what is your vision of a perfect world? Story of Change. Over the past several decades, many environmental and social change efforts have come to reflect the centrality of shopping in our culture, suggesting change can be made—or is even best made—through alterations in our individual consumption patterns.
These efforts—buy Fair Trade or organic, use a reusable bag, screw in a CFL lightbulb—are a great place to start, but they are a terrible place to stop, ignoring the real source of our power: coming together as engaged citizens. In The Story of Change, released in July 2012, Annie Leonard argues that it’s not bad shoppers who are putting our future at risk; it’s bad policies and business practices. If we really want to change the world, we have to move beyond voting with our dollars and come together to demand rules that work. Credits The Story of Change was created and released by The Story of Stuff Project and produced by Free Range Studios. Show full list of credits.