8 Irresistible Temptations of Eating Local Food

Do you know what local food is? You must know about it. So you can understand what its environmental benefits are.

Local food means the food available in your locality. To some extent it is correct.

Here locality means within the radius of 3 to 4 hundred miles. It is grown close to its consumer houses. So its producers can transport it closer to you for selling it. They save the cost of transportation. So they earn more because of the lower cost of their products. Right.

Now you can better understand its environmental benefits. So mouth-watering these benefits are; both for its buyers and sellers.

8 environmental benefits of eating local food

The environmental benefits of eating local food are many. Eight of them are as below:

A ridiculously simple guide to compost your food waste at home

Do you know that food is a major part of the waste material thrown out every day?

Rotten or surplus food that is of no use is usually thrown out and goes into trash. The amount of food that is thrown out every day is enormous.  

Every year, almost one third of the total food produced in the world for human use is wasted (approximately 1.3 billion tonnes).

It is estimated that a usual household throws away about 474 pounds of food waste each year. In Canada and US 40% of food supply is wasted per annum. In New Zealand, 122,547 tonnes of food is thrown out per year.

Global quantitative food losses and waste per year are roughly 30 per cent for cereals, 40-50 per cent for root crops, fruits and vegetables, 20 per cent for oil seeds, meat and dairy plus 35 per cent for fish.

Top 5 easy eco jobs for Asian women

You may object to the term Asian women and say why not all women of the world. 

By Asian women, I mean a segment of the population with relatively fewer career opportunities. It is because of the bad norms of  Asian society. It is another debate why women of Asia have fewer chances to grow their careers. 

The purpose of this post is to let them know another area where they can easily enter and prove their professional power. Yes, this is about eco jobs for Asian women.  

In European countries and the USA, there is lesser gender bias with regard to work. A person regardless of her gender can do any job over there. That is why in advanced countries women can easily become environmental technicians, green site surveyors, green building administrators, and HSE managers of remote oil fields without any hurdle. 

I mentioned these jobs as an example because these are relatively tough eco jobs. In relatively easy eco jobs women are in quite a big number. We can say there is no specific area of eco jobs best suited to them. The whole environmental sector in developed regions is for them just like other sectors.

Do you know how silently indoor pollution kills households?

More than half of the population of Asia relies on burning of biomass fuel including wood, crop refuse, animal dung and heavy garbage to cook their food.

As a result smoke emits while they cook and it has many harmful gases including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide that affect the respiratory system of households.

According to World Health Organisation nearly 2 million people die of this form of pollution every year and more than half of them are from poor regions of Asia and Africa.

Women are worst hit of indoor pollution

Womenfolk are the most vulnerable to this form of pollution because mostly they cook food. They have to be near to the fireplace for hours that keep emitting smokes.

Secondly little girls are equally most vulnerable to it. In conservative societies of poor regions they are not allowed to go out from home without any reason. As a result most of the diseases related to indoor pollution are reported in women and girls in Asia and Africa.

No space for green marketing! Are we fools or hypocrites?

Green marketing means to market the green features of a product to boost its sales. Right?

Its concept is not so old and became famous as soon as the need of going green is felt first in advance countries and then all over the world.

Those who want to adopt green living need green products. It doesn’t mean the color of such products is green. Actually they are environment friendly products. All environmental requirements are fulfilled while making them. Their use and consumption also barely hit our environment.

Environmental standards for manufacturing

For example if a company makes a product by fully following the environmental standards it is called a green product. Environmental standards means:

·         Disposing off factory waste at designated landfill site

·         Neutralising hazardous waste through an appropriate technology before its disposal

·         Releasing effluent after its treatment

3 super creative ways to fully get rid of harmful plastic bags

Plastic bags are used to carry small and big items while shopping. One can easily throw them after using once because of their low prices.

So a person needs not to take any reusable bag from home to shop and can get free with the items he buys. This is the only convenience of this item of carrying things.

Devastating harms of plastic bags

The harms of plastic bags are more than many.

First of all, it can never be destroyed and remains almost forever. If it is collected with garbage it is thrown into a landfill site with other garbage and keeps harming the feature of soil with its plastic material.

If no one collects it, then it keeps flying here and there and may harm more severely by sticking with open wire of electricity or telephone.

If it goes into any open stream of wastewater it ultimately chokes its flow and causes overflow of sewage.

Can Any Biodiversity Definition Really Cover The Topic?

The word biodiversity is made of two words. Bio means life and diversity means variety. It was coined as one word seeing the contraction of biological diversityon planet Earth. Since then it is being defined differently by different schools of thoughts in biology.

Biodiversity definition by scientists

Scientists prefer using the broadest possible biodiversity definition.They don’t want to overlook any aspect of what is in exceedingly complex subject. However, one of the largest problems facing scientists, government agencies and environmental groups is;

HOW EXACTLY TO DEFINE BIODIVERSITY?

Dictionaries’ version

Dictionaries are generally silent on any kind of controversy. They define the most general outlines of the subject. But most have some elements in common. Most take into account that it must refer the 

A glimpse of biodiversity

number and variety of plants and animal species. They also hint that these species occupy a particular geographic region.