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How can we define a green-friendly lifestyle? People often tend to associate green-friendly products will a lack of individual comfort, and the rawest and most striking example is the ultra brands of toilet paper that feel so soft on the bum. Well, you may not know or care that very soft toilet is made from virgin fiber wood that requires the cutting down of trees. Next time when you consider yourself a green-friendly person, be more critical with your daily habits and see whether you really live up to your standards or simply make superficial claims of environmental concern.

The food you eat tells a lot about how green-friendly you are. Whether out of preoccupation for personal health or care for the environment, lots of people buy local food instead of the non-organic products available in hypermarkets. A vegetables garden will produce very nice food that can be kept 100% pesticide free. This could very well cover a family’s needs of tomatoes, carrots, peppers, peas or beans in a very inexpensive way. Local green-friendly farms need all the support they can get from communities in order to sell their products; think about that, next time you go to the hypermarket.

Then, to continue the list of green living lifestyle examples we come to the importance of outdoor activities. How much time does your child spend in front of the computer or watching TV? The most important thing you can do when guiding him/her in the choice of leisure activities is to give him/her a dose of nature. Walking or playing outside in a natural setting, doing sports, going hiking, cycling or climbing are just a few examples of how you can develop a green-friendly lifestyle for the entire family. If more parents thought like this, there would be fewer video-game consoles sold all over the world.

Lots of other elements define a eco green friendly attitude to life. From the effort to reuse and recycle to the very building of a house according to sustainable criteria, there is so much one can do to stay in harmony with the environment. We have got so used to our comfort, to the huge number of readymade items that serve us every day that we not even think where all our litter goes once we dump it in the bin or what happens to the waste water full of household residues. Just think for a second that the fish we serve for dinner may come from the toxic pool that the ocean has become, then, we may be more co-interested in cleaning this larger ‘home’ of ours.