Low Impact Week begins!
Welcome to Low Impact Week!
I thought I would start us off with a little self-motivation. Homeschool your kids and save the planet!
At first glance it amy seem odd, but homeschooling really can be an environmentally friendly choice. I recall an old article from 2005 (and was actually able to find it quickly) about the state of school lunches.
A single student produces 45 to 90 pounds of garbage a year in disposable lunches, according to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. A federal review of the National School Lunch Program found that wasted food costs more than $600 million, plus an untold nutritional loss.
Does that chill anyone else to the bone? So what are some tips that you could do to make lunch a little more low impact? I found this great page, How environmentally friendly is my lunch? that is a great lesson plan to start with. Get your kids thinking about what foods have a low impact
and are healthy to eat, then let them plan a picnic lunch full of low impact foods. Added bonus if they manage to do so without disposable products.
Here are some tips from Crunchy Chicken:
Change your food habits -
try to buy organic and/or locally grown food
minimize pre-packaged foods and make more of your own from scratch
use cloth bags at the grocery store instead of getting paper or plastic
don’t get take-out if it means non-recyclable packaging
try eating vegetarian or vegan for the week (choose your level from egg/dairy acceptable to no animals products at all)
Low impact Week, environment, ecology, food, meal planning, homeschooling, homeschool
June 1st, 2007 at 3:20 pm
What a great entry! Thanks for the link to the MSNBC article. I’ve homeschooled all seven of my children with great success. I agree that lunches in public schools are wasteful and extremely unhealthy! I look forward to reading more in the future.
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