As you know, we mix the jamband community and the environment together here at Shakedown News. I can’t think o f a better example than some suggestion about how to help the ever growing problems with our environment from Nate LaPointe from the Nate LaPointe Band and SN’s “Artist of the Month.”
Nate LaPointe:
“So coming off a weekend at the Treehugger’s Ball, and the recent oil spill in the gulf, the environment has been on my mind. One problem I see is everyone getting all riled up and angry about the current situation but not doing anything about it.
We all feel helpless because we can’t actually go to the gulf and stop that oil leak ourselves. But there are things you can do on an individual and local level that can have just as much impact, here’s some ideas…
1. Carpool when possible
2. Purchase a hybrid for your next vehicle
3. Urge your landlord to convert his/her property to solar
4. Take your own bags to the grocery store
5. Don’t buy trash bags, reuse the paper ones from the grocery store… See More
6. Decline the offer for plastic bags at the store, say something cute like, “save a dolphin”
7. Wash your ziplock baggies and use them over and over again, seriously, it takes 30 seconds!
8. Compost your food waste and use it to fertilize your garden and trees
9. Buy produce from local farmers at a farmer’s market in your neighborhood
10. Wash and reuse glass jars
11. If you play the stock market, invest in companies that are environmentally conscious
12. Share with others your conservation ideas, just talking about it can encourage others who may not be thinking in this way yet. Let’s hear it…”
We hope you take Nate’s suggestions and go do something about it!
Of Nate’s 12 suggestions, I said “yes” to seven! Not bad!