Tips For Your Health & The Planet’s 

Aside from pesticide usage and a few other issues, most of us haven’t worried much about the connections between health issues and the environment. For our health we work on our waistlines and fret over our cholesterol levels. For the environment, we recycle and may be drive a fuel-efficient car. 

But because of accelerating climate change and the havoc it could wreak, it’s not so easy to send environmentalism off into its own separate compartment these days. Experts say the evidence for global warming is “unequivocal.” Every thing we do now can be measured for its effect on the environment – and greenhouse gas emissions in particular. 

There’s always danger in doling out “what you can do” advice. Bite-size solutions sometimes trivialize larger problems. We end up doing easy things because they make us feel good, not because they do much good. Policies set in Delhi and elsewhere are far more important.

Still, there’s a place for individual responsibility – and individual actions can have ripple effects. 

We can educate our friends and colleagues and work to change the practices of employers, schools, even places of worship; we can set in motion new patterns of sustainable consumption and help create markets for clean, efficient technologies. 

So now the time is apt to turn over a new leaf – we thought we’d bring personal and environment health together and provide eight “green” health tips. 

1. Walk or bicycle to work.

2. Go to bed early.

3. Turn down the air conditioning.

4. Switch to energy-saving light bulbs.

5. Don’t palm things off.

6. Favour local over the exotic.

7. Don’t take more medications than you need to.

8. Vote for the greening of hospitals.

9. Eat less red meat.  

So, get started following these tips now and save our planet.

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