Our Grandmothers Were Environmental Warriors - They Just Didn't Know It

My grandmother was a warrior-label. I just do not know! She was not alone, because most of his generation had daily life, were much more environmentally friendly than the modern lifestyle. Going green could be the latest craze at the moment, but we all could be much worse than to look back to our grandparents as a source of inspiration.

Here are three things that made my grandmother, were environmentally friendly. I bet your grandma has a lot of thema.

He had his own personal garden:

Some of my earliest memories of my grandmother have done their work in their home garden vegetable. Modern trends can handle environmental sustainable gardening, so hot and trendy. For my grandmother, but it was a necessity than a luxury. She did not grow up with the supermarkets on every corner. If you eat well that they would need to grow their own. If they have grown too much that can be enjoyed more couldtheir own homegrown vegetables throughout the winter.

My grandmother would never have heard of food miles but by having her own vegetable garden it meant that her meals had food feet rather than miles. It also meant that the meals she cooked were mostly prepared with seasonal produce. She would be so trendy in foodie circles today!

She used cloth diapers for her babies:

If we are honest, many of us are down right frightened by the idea of dealing with cloth Diapers. When my grandmother had the disposable diapers were not an option. He did not want to wash change machines to help her cope with the less appetizing aspects of the diaper. But she has managed to durchzubeissen.

Using cloth diapers, was much more environmentally friendly than a mother to her, they used disposable diapers is. disposable diapers can comfortably, but I'm pretty terrible for the environment. Landfills throughout thecountry are littered with disposable diapers waiting to be broken down. Meanwhile, cloth diapers have come on leaps and bounds since grandmother's day. Perhaps it is time for modern moms to go retro and give cloth diapers another try.

She darned her socks:

We live in a disposable society. That extends to the items of clothing we wear. We throw them away as the winds of fashion change and thing nothing much of it. That would have been unthinkable to my grandmother. In fact, clothing didn't even get thrown away when they became damaged. If somebody in the family had a hole in a sock, for example, it went onto a mending pile. When she found the time, my grandmother would then get out her sewing kit and darn those socks.

Not only did this mean that the family saved much needed money but also that less clothing had to be produced in their names. If we all decided to reuse our clothing we could have a serious impact on the need for industrial textile production. As a result, there would be less pollution from that energy and we would all be more environmentally friendly.

My grandmother and the many other grandmas from her generation may not have thought of themselves as being pioneers of the environmental movement. However, they set standards in their lives that would those of us wishing to be more environmentally friendly could benefit from adopting in our modern lives.