$9 window cleaner? Give me a break!
The same magazine I mentioned yesterday, Domino (http://www.dominomag.com/), has a feature this month on environmentally-friendly cleaning products and it has me thinking.
Everyone seems to be leaping on the "inexperienced" bandwagon all the sudden and it's approximately time. I suppose it's critical to use sources wisely but quite a few times; the quest for brand new, "green" merchandise is not anything greater than a reconfigured quest for cash, the old fashioned green. Environmental degradation is caused by consumerism and I do not suppose that the solution to it lies in greater consumerism. A nine dollar bottle of non-toxic window cleaner may not really do whatever but lighten wallets and make quite a few the customers sense higher about themselves. I noticed an advert nowadays for canvas grocery baggage that retail for $26. So what if the cotton they're crafted from is natural? $26 for a grocery bag? Wouldn't that cash be better-spent on the groceries the bag is supposed to carry?
Somebody who thinks not anything of plunking down $26 for a grocery bag is the identical kind of individual who can be counted directly to drive a Hummer or a Suburban, and that is an entire different hassle. The problem to hand there even though is the anxious polyethylene grocery luggage that clog waterways and don't decompose. So the solution is to forestall the use of them. So either say "paper" whilst the child at the test out asks you if you need paper or plastic. Or better but, say "neither" and hand him a stack of your luggage from the last time you were there. But I guess there is no glamour in that. No opportunity for sanctimony or martyrdom.
The solution is not to buy more crap. Similarly, the solution is not to suffer needlessly. Wouldn't it make more sense to clean your windows with a one dollar bottle of white vinegar and yesterday's newspaper rather than a nine dollar bottle of something touted as green? Isn't it better environmentally and fiscally to take the eight dollar difference and pop it into a savings account? The basic cleaners your grandmother swore by (Fels-Naptha soap, white vinegar, baking soda, etc.) are still around and still as effective as they ever were. Especially the Fels-Naptha, I swear by it. What they lack in cachet they make up for in effectiveness and sensibility. They're also environmentally responsible.
Current environmental challenges are real and confronting them isn't some thing that may be disregarded or needed away. As an character, I can use less stuff and consider the impact of the stuff I do use once I'm executed the usage of it. That form of behavioral change is diffused and quiet. Further, it's in my great hobby economically to make changes like that. Its very subtlety and enlightened self-hobby makes it run counter to consumerism long past wild and that, I suppose, is the important thing.
