Green Design Matters

Green Design Matters

Green Design Matters, If we don’t take steps Now to live in harmony with our environment we will Self Destruct.

We simply must change and  Green Design Matters. from the bottom up, many many things we do in every day life could so easily be Green by Design.  Even something as fundamental as what you eat could be Green and friendly to the environment. For instance if you were to simply substitute the processed pre-packed preservative ladened food we buy and consume on a regular basis, with fresh fruit and vegetables this would substantially decrease your impact on our environment.

1 No preservatives

2 No packaging

3 No expensive fancy Logos and promotional boxes

All of these things cost money to promote, design, manufacture and produce, it costs us environmentally.

Personally I would prefer to walk away from the Greengrocers with a plain bag full of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, rather than a bag full of logo’d up packaging with poor quality processed fruit and vegetables inside.

  When it comes to actually eating the food, instead of cooking, eat them raw, cooking as a general rule destroys most of the goodness and nutritional value of the food products, throw away the water you cook in and your throwing away the rest of the goodness,  If you are going to boil the vegetables, at the very least use the water to make a gravy or pour it into a glass, pepper to flavour and drink it with your food. Most vegetables can be eaten raw any way.  Myself I would have a potato in it’s jacket with raw mushrooms, tomatoes, cucumber some grapes, grated cheese, carrot and anything else to hand that I can add to the dish that can be eaten raw, delicious and environmentally very friendly, the only thing cooked was the potato, which can be Nuked in the microwave in less than 10 minutes, sparing on electricity, your food in fresh, wholesome, nutritious and very inexpensive all round. Green Food by Design Matters.

And since to do this the fruit and vegetables will have to be fresh they would ideally be grown locally or at the very least grown in your own country, to maintain the quality, Not frozen and sent half way around the world before eventually getting to you.