Do’s and Don’ts of Green Living

Vanessa Farkas in is just your average
girl except she keeps a blog has written
a book and has inspired tons of
followers after spending a year making
her life more eco-friendly hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Farkas –n to get some do’s and
don’ts on how to make your life more
green what would you say is the biggest
mistake that most people make in terms
of green living what bothers me I guess
is when people kind of just want to pay
their way to green you know they want to
buy some solar panels and buy a hybrid
car throwing money at the green movement
won’t necessarily work because I think
it’s more of an overall mentality that
you have to have but just consuming less
is there anything we’d be surprised to
learn that is not eco-friendly well
there’s a lot of products that claim to
be natural that that are full of
fragrances and parabens and
preservatives and stuff unfortunately I
have to just do your research and read
every single ingredient list you know
all this stuff like a Starbucks whatever
they had these healthy-looking salads
and then you read ingredients like
propylene glycol which i think is some
derivative of antifreeze it’s like what
was a problem that you encountered that
you didn’t foresee you often have to
choose between like an imported organic
product or a local non-organic product
the rule that my nutritionist friend has
is like first is local organic second is
local there it is organic what would you
say is the trick to making these changes
in sticking with them find your own
maybe your niche or just something that
you really care about most I mean some
people just don’t care so much about
conserving water and they let the tap
run but maybe you care a lot about waste
reduction in garbage and I know
personally that’s kind of my situation
like I just hate creating garbage I hate
buying things with lots of packaging
there’s a lot of blogs out there with
people trying to just not buy any
plastic like not consume any plastic
whatsoever it’s just good if you can
think of something that you really care
about for whatever reason and just focus
on that but let yourself have a few sins
every now and then do you think everyone
can live an eco-friendly lifestyle I do
think that everyone can step outside of
their comfort zone more than they do you
know I really never thought I’d be the
type of person to unplug my fridge one
day but but I did and I was
so surprised as to how easy it was I’m
surprising myself it at how much happier
I am having done all these things that I
never thought I would so so I just hope
more people take that take that leap