Five Things I Do To Embody A Green Lifestyle

Five Things I Do To Embody A Green Lifestyle

It starts every morning I wake up just by being in a state of gratitude for my life, health, Marie, my 2 children the abundance I have that surrounds me. Living in Montreal is really amazing outside of the winter cold; spring, summer and fall are absolutely amazing in this city. I live in an area called the Plateau Mont Royal just outside out the downtown core. It is know as the "Grano area" of Montreal. It is a very green area with many parks and streets lined with large mature trees. Here is where I take my cue, people living here in the area tend to more sensitive to the environment, biking and walking, recycling and things like litter in the streets as well as their properties.

Obviously living in a 4th floor condo I don't have the luxury of front lawns or back yards with large gardens but I do have access to 1 private deck and a courtyard balcony. Why am I telling you this because it is our special green oasis and with Marie we insure that we cultivate our garden in both areas. We garden many types of herbs and small vegetable plants on the courtyard balcony along with roses and vines. This is how we promote our contribution to green living. Our deck upstairs we plant more substantial bushes which will change this spring to an even more substantial organic garden.

I eat only organic foods and vegetables and one of the most conscious things that I do during my shopping excursions is to eliminate heavily packaged foods from my list. If you take the time to consider the volume of garbage you accumulate just after putting the groceries away it is totally ludicrous! I mean probably at least a 1/3 of the groceries bags are dedicated packaging garbage. So by buying organic and in bulk I really cut back in this area.

Since eliminating beef, poultry and fish from my diet I have about a 1/5th of the garbage I used to have. Much of my garbage comes from vegetables is collected daily for compost. We are fortunate to have an excellent composting service for our building. By the way this compost which is collected year round comes back to us and is used to fertilize the gardens all around our building. I do eat organic processed breads from the Formentier down the street. But again there is no packaging just a paper bag which is easily recycled. I bring my own re usable bags bought from Costco every where I shop so as to not be part of the plastic problem we are now facing everywhere on the planet.

Another thing that embodies my green lifestyle is for storing our dry foods, as well as refrigerated foods in glass jars or containers. This is mainly thanks to Marie's determination to keep our home as green as possible. There is no plastic, no Tupperware type of containers at all, there easily cleaned and re usable until they break.

When it comes to products we use at home Marie is exceptional and no chemicals come into the condo! We use only degradable products that are eco friendly. Our products are kept in our reusable spray bottles as again we try to really limit the one time user products whether in metal spray cans or plastic bottles.

Every wall I've painted over the past year and half has been painted with VOC free paints from Rona L'Entrepot. What does VOC mean? VOC means Volatile Organic Compounds, all other paints that we no longer use or need to keep I return to Rona or Reno Depot, Home Depot to have the paint recycled. I recycle all of our garbage daily and really enjoy it because when garbage day comes around I really have a small bag to take to the curb for garbage pick up. This is very different for me then it was over a year ago. Costco has lost quite a bit of plastic garbage bag business from me with these new habits.

The last thing I do which really defines me more and more outside of the winter season I ride my bike as often as I can for most errands I have to do. Even going downtown if I don't feel like biking I take the metro, no parking challenges and I don't contribute to polluting the air. It is discipline and it is a conscious choice of living that really serve me well and most of all that I benefit the most from by increasing my exercise time riding a bike where I used to drive everywhere.

I hope that this may be of help to you perhaps giving you an additional insight to a greener lifestyle with a different spin. If we all do a little bit what a huge difference it will have on our cities, towns, villages. For more information stay tuned to Marie's blog TheZenConsumer.com, follow Marie around with her different ventures in a more practical Zen Green Consuming. Thank you

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