It’s no secret that the environment is an important topic today as human activity impacts the natural world. I recently lived in San Francisco, CA and, right before I moved, the city made it a law where every household and business must compost by putting food waste in a separate bin. The city will then pick up the compost along with garbage and recycle bins. In doing so, food waste that would normally end up in landfills can be turned into soil and put back into the land. You can read more about the zero waste effort here.
After leaving the Bay Area, I wanted to retain some of the city’s goals. I made it a New Year’s resolution to compost in my new location and have even gotten a head start on my 2010 pledge. So far, it’s been easier said than done as the city in which I currently reside in does not have a recycling program that will pick up food scraps. I’ve been composting in my backyard, but there are some difficulties to this. The decomposing scraps attract many flies and I fear that can transpire to rodents and other critters. My first backyard lesson has been to not include meat scraps.
In my effort to help the environment, I was wondering what role women have had in the history of environmentalism in the past. I was pleased to find out, through a little internet research, that women have played a vital role. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is known to have helped kick start the environmentalism movement with the banning of DDT in the 1970s. I also remember getting one of Gwenyth Paltrow’s Goop newsletters filled with information on “green” reads and sustainable buys.
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