Running a bit late this morning. Big tropical rainstorm last night lots of rain, lots of lightning and lots of wind. The net went down. for a couple of hours. But that is normal for the Third World, you get used to it.
Last week’s CTWW was about your water footprint.
Boy did I get a surprise.
1848
Initially, I thought it was ho-hum, at least I did until I saw reports of 100+ and 400+.
Then I went, oh dear!
I wasn’t doing so well. My big culprit was food, or more specifically meat.
In Small’s last week’s CTWW gave these figures:
- Beef 1 kg = 15,500 lt of water
- Pork = 4,800 lt
- Chicken = 3,900 lt
Now while that isn’t an end all definitive list, it did show me that the amount of beef that I consume (Oh, I do love a BBQ) was where I unwittingly used most of my ‘hidden’ water.
After much gnashing of teeth I thought about what I could do.
The result is that I have imposed on myself two beefless weeks each month. Monday – Sunday, the first full and third weeks of each month.
I am now in the middle of my first week.
Last night at the supermarket, I bought no beef, only chicken for three days, pork for one day and fish for two days (I already have fish in the fridge for one day). I have bacon to make a bacon & egg pie and ham for snacks.
By doing this I have roughly halved my beef intake.
Even Lixo P. Cat has joined the the effort.
Not by choice, I might add.
He is having chicken as his meat supplement instead of mincemeat (ground beef for our American cousins), and fish ‘flavoured’ dry cat food that probably doesn’t have any actual fish in it as much as his meat ‘flavoured’ doesn’t not have any actual meat in it.
My Lixo is a ‘green’ cat.
When I unpack from the supermarket, Lixo is a great helper. He carefully inspects each item as it goes into either the cupboard or fridge.
Last night as the last item was hidden from his feline eyes. He looked up at me quizzically and ‘meowed’, and I could just read his mind… “Where’s the beef?”
Onward!
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This week’s CTWW.
This week, apply the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) to CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, etc.
Once again, it’s rather a large challenge to hop across to Reduce Footprints to read the rest, just click on the banner and you’ll be transported from Kansas…
I am already green here. I haven’t bought a CD for music in years, I download from the net. The same with films, although I do have one or two currently. I have in the past given DVDs to neighbours when I am done with them, so they have been recycled.
I wouldn’t use a CD as a coaster, because coasters need to be absorbent or you drip condensation all down your front.
But I can imagine that they could be used decoratively as dangly things in the wind, like chimeless wind chimes.
As for disposal, Brazil is just not up with this type of specialised recycling and if they were added to the ‘plastics’ would no doubt be discarded at the recycling plant. Anyway, in our area we don’t have selective recycling for anything.
You do see this in ‘posh’ areas, but Zona Oeste (West Zone) is not ‘posh’ enough
Our recycling is more like this…
Catadores roaming the streets looking for stuff to sell on
That’s about it for this week, on with my beefless week… Chicken for lunch!
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