Berlin.Separate the garbage, save electricity, ride the train: all possibilities to live more sustainably.But environmental protection touches a lot more areas of life than you think.If you want to live consciously, you can do more - for example at work and food shopping.
Job:
If you want to think green in the training and career choice, you have many options: roof gardeners?Electronic?Planting technologist?With the multitude of offers, the orientation is not that easy.The Green Working World network provides instruments on its website that support young people to come to their sustainable dream job.
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Travel:
In the opinion of Antje Monshausen from Tourism Watch at Bread for the world, air travel should always be avoided for the world, even if a less climate -damaging means of transport could be used.For example the train.If you have to get on the plane, you can compensate for the outcast CO2 emissions-with a donation to organizations that support the CO2 savings projects.But: "First there is reducing, then compensation comes," says Monshausen.So flying less is the better step.
Entertainment:
To do without streaming nowadays is unthinkable for many people.The server farms that are needed to provide the content require a lot of energy.A few tricks are more ecological: films, series and music should not always be streamed again and again, but should be downloaded to the end device and played from there.Anyone who does this via LAN or at least WLAN connection drives particularly well.
If you still play videos directly from the network, you can reduce the image quality of the videos.This reduces the amount of data transferred and thus also the power consumption.
Nutrition:
Food often has to put many hundreds or even thousands of kilometers before landing in the fridge at home.It is worthwhile to buy seasonal fruit and vegetables that grows in regional realms.In this way, consumers not only avoid environmental pollution from long transport routes, but also by heated greenhouses.The seasonal calendar of the consumer advice center helps with the selection.
Household:
When washing the laundry there is considerable potential for saving resources.It starts when buying the washing machine.A model of the best energy efficiency class is often more expensive to buy, but in the long term it usually pays off by saving energy costs, says Indra Enterlein from the Nature Conservation Association Germany.
When washing itself, a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius is often sufficient to clean the laundry.This can save more than 50 percent of electricity costs compared to 60-degree washes, says the consumer initiative.This is due to the fact that the machine consumes up to 90 percent of the energy when heating the water.A 60-degree laundry should still run every two to three weeks so that no germs form in the machine.
Those who use less aggressive cleaning agents in the household also live more environmentally friendly.The consumer advice centers say that a neutral all -purpose cleaner, abrasive powder as well as vinegar cleaners or citric acid are sufficient to remove any dirt.
Where it does not do water alone, the all -purpose cleaner helps - for example with greasy dirt on the floor.In the case of stubborn dirt and incrusting, the scouring powder must.Vinegar cleaners or citric acid solve lime deposits and urine stone.
Garden:
If you want to free your garden as ecologically as possible from autumn leaves, it is best to use a rake and broom.Because leaf blades not only make noise and consume fuel or electricity.They also harm the wildlife.Spiders, insects, hedgehogs and mice that get into the air flow are thrown away at tremendous speed.You will be put even faster in leaf vacuum cleaners, where you will be shredded right away.
Nice for the eye, but also bad for the wildlife is a garden illuminated at night.The artificial light turns the night into the day.The result: birds started singing too early, insects and moths buzzed to see the light source to death instead of food, says Marianne Wolff from the Bavarian consumer service.Therefore, everything should be turned off at night better that glows senselessly.
Recycling:
Washing machine, television, toaster - Anyone who bought a new electrical device is inevitably faced with the question: Where to go with the old device?It is best to be available from the retailer of the new device or the municipal recycling center.So you can be sure that the devices are recycled professionally and valuable building materials are added to the recycling.Simply putting them in household waste is even prohibited because some devices contain pollutants.
Incidentally, for the same reasons, batteries and batteries of the recycling should also be added.Super and electric markets, drugstores and hardware stores take back the types they have or have in the range.Alternatively, they have to be brought to the recycling center.
Investment:
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