Taking it to the next level - beyond cloth nappies

We have recently been getting all environmental. Thinking about all the ways we can reduce our environmental impact and boost our own health.

Our newest family addition are two chicks, soon to grow up and provide us with eggs. We hope this will offer our family a healthier food source. It will also help teach our kids the importance of valuing their food. 

In a disposable and wasteful society it is often easy to not see the impact we are having. The waste we produce is shipped away from our homes so we don't need to think about it. We do not see the animals used to produce our food. We also do not see the resources going into growing our food. It makes it very easy to make 'convenient' choices. When we throw our a tray of meat we fail to think about the animal that gave its life to produce it, when we throw out uneaten groceries we do not think of the effort to produce it nor the wasted water gone into growing it. When we throw out a pile of plastic we don't see the volume we are adding to landfill. 

Cloth nappies are just the start of our efforts to decrease our impact. As a family we hope to continue to grow more and more of our own food (after all it tastes better and is fun to do), cut down on our power use (think renewable green energy and solar power sourced from our own home) and teach our kids to value what they have. 

So what things have you thought of as a family to teach your kids (and for yourself) the value of preserving our environment?