Eco Friendly vs Sustainable vs Carbon footprint [Know the difference]

Imagine the world without human beings, it would have being very perfect with no pollution, trees occupying today's buildings, birds flying it should be a world of happiness. While the development is necessary, impact on the nature is crucial. The recent floods, heat, tornadoes or cyclones all related to the harm we have did to mother earth.

Let us see how we can prevent some damage by living eco-friendly or sustainable living along with nature.

While the words eco-friendly and sustainable living are often used interchangeably or in-tandem they have different meaning though solve the same purpose. 

Never think what impact I could make, it always start with you.

Living with nature is always the solution that keeps your health and environment safe and which is good for next future generations. They may not be expensive you just need to see the way to do it. There is nothing more you can give to your future generations other than the practices of eco friendliness towards nature you perform.

You rented on earth for the lifetime of yours

Eco Friendly

Any item you are using or practicing which comes from nature and do not do harm to nature is eco friendly. 

• Exists with nature
• Conscious to nature
• Organic to nature

The products like plastic, chemicals, processed foods, soap, detergents, wipes made of plastic, batteries, packaging material all these are contributing to the eco waste and causing damage to nature. These may take 100s to 1000s of years to get degraded and contribute to pollution and harming us.

Plastic is one of the main product that is causing harm to nature as well as yours. Plastic is causing health issues to humans and other species 

Question is how we can change by contributing our part by finding the alternatives to these in our daily usage. There is always an alternative to using them. You just need to practice and find alternative ways to them

Sustainable

Sustainable is the practice we would have either eco friendly alternatives or long lasting products thus reducing the impact on overall pollution. It can be many ways you can get sustainable.

Keeping a solar energy at your home, finding long lasting products like bronze fry pan instead of teflon coated fry pan(teflon can cause flu), bamboo or steel lunch boxes instead of plastic and many more. There is always an alternative if you have a will to find them.

It can also be few points like below:

• 10s of pairs of slippers or shoes when you hardly need one or two a week
• Bunch of clothing when you only need few pairs of clothes
• Recycling water

It is demand, if there is no demand these products would not be created or manufactured in first place.

Remember they are being produced because you are using them.

Carbon foot print

Carbon foot print is the way we calculate the emissions made because of the person, organization or country. There is an carbon foot print of all the products you use.

How do you reduce the carbon foot print. While there are calculators, it is strictly looking at yourself. The less is your carbon footprint the more healthy the planet of ours.

It can be simple as buy a product from your own country by spending few bucks more than getting it from country which is 1000s of kilometers from you. You are increasing the carbon foot print of the travel, fuel etc. And many more times it is the money that stays in your community

Most of the times it is to find the product and bring the change. For example a ten pack of bamboo toothbrushes cost around $8.5 for 10 pack which is low or equal to the plastic brushes we buy

Conclusion

 We believe the change has started, at storeparrot we try our level best to educate, engage and contribute to this good will. The statistics show people spending a premium for the good cause to nature. Living an eco friendly life would help your self and the nature being healthy and happy. Living eco friendly with little changes in your life can help you and your family to avoid all those health issues, make your world happy to you and nature. This would be for you and also for your future generations