Does a green life improve your life overall
This morning I read a post on http://zenhabits.net/2007/10/5-ways-save-the-world-while-getting-fitter-saving-money-simplifying-and-becoming-happier/
This post really seemed to make a lot of sense to me. Living an environmentally responsible life can lead to happiness in other areas of life. I think it has helped. Here are a few tidbits.
- I spend a lot of time outside and it’s usually with my family. My son loves working in the yard with me. He loves planting and picking veggies in the garden. Even watering – although that sometimes gets out of control – he’s 4 so when it’s warm out he usually ‘waters’ us as well. We did some grass seed this weekend. And he uses his toy dump truck to carry things around for me.
- I went apple picking a few weekends ago and my 3 kids had a blast.
- My 4 year old also likes cutting the grass and I try to teach him about recycling and composting at the same – and he loves worms.
- When you live a green lifestyle you also become somewhat frugal since you don’t like to see things go to waste – and end up in the landfill. So the extra cash can enhance your life.
I could keep going on and on and on but I’ll save some for future days.
on October 16, 2007 on 6:33 pm
Gee, it sounds like you are teaching great values to your son about making the care and “feeding” of our planet a family affair! Good thing to teach the next generation, particularly because they will inherit whatever shape we leave this planet in.