Comparison-Our Super Hero

Eco-minimalists come to save and protect the planet from excessive waste and pollution. Soaring across the globe are Eco-minimalists fighting to conserve the planets valuable resources from being extinct. They fight waste and pollution with the three R’s: REDUCE-REUSE-RECYCLE! Fighting these villains of the environment using these weapons with vigor, the eco-minimalist reduces the carbon foot print by a lifestyle of conscious decisions sacrificing convenience for effency. These heroes stealthy reuse everything possible to its fullest extent, making new items of old or passing on unwanted articles to the next planet saving hero. "When the going gets tough, the tough go green." encourages civilians to keep up a clean environment, not wasting or polluting making Earth healthy decisions so generations to come can enjoy our planet.

Descriptive-Earth Ship Walk Through

Visiting an earth ship and studying the architectural structure we noticed an earthy aroma of clay, herbs, and sweet flowers. The aroma of herbs and flowers came from a spacious kitchen. While observing the sink water being diverted to the garden, the agent explained that the water filtration system preserves the water, generating nutrients for the plants emitting fresh oxygen. Then taking a deep breath, filling my lungs with fresh air, while being overwhelmed with efficient living facts, I bent over picking some basil from the garden, tasting the organic sweetness as I stood up my back twinged. Walking through the remaining rooms I grazed my hand across colorful bottles that made up the walls throughout. Leaving the home, wind chimes rang whispering about a gentle breeze filling the air, supplying alternative energy to the house through windmills. In amazement of the beauty, I day dreamed about moving in.

Cause and Effect- Saving Our Planet

Saving our planet takes hard work and ambitions, generating a healthy environment for future generations. Influences that produce a positive outcome include: Earth Hour, Arbor Day, and recycling. These all save the planet in different ways.

Earth Hour bonds a global community together by not using any power. Saving the planet globally reduces carbon emissions, and being aware of climate change. Earth Hour draws the global community in unity against a deteriorating climate.

Observing Arbor Day brings awareness of how much trees contribute to our earth’s survival. Trees provide multiple benefits for saving our planet. They create environmental, communal, social, and economical benefits that enhance our living.

Recycling simply helps save our planet by minimizing the use of our natural resources. Recycling is not limited to paper, plastic, glass, or metals; we are finding innovative ways to recycle other materials such as electronics, hazardous, construction, automotive, garden and household goods.

Advocacy- Reclaiming Our Earth

Most people have a degree of respect for people, possessions, nature or their surroundings. Respect holds esteem or honor to one's self being or possessions. Eco-minimalists or environmentalists have a high respect for nature and their surroundings, going the extra mile to conserve and preserve these attributes. Eco-friendly people reserve the respect for natural beauty and the benefits nature provides. Formerly natural benefits were self-evident and exhausted; The National Park Service was created as a preservation of our nations historical and natural resources. Americans take action in being eco-friendly having, foresight preventing damage of delicate, resourceful, yet beautiful natural wildernesses. People across the nation contribute to different eco-friendly causes such as Earth day or Arbor Day. Globally a vast community participates in Earth hour each March. Not only does an eco-minimalist or environmentalists conserve but they strive to renew the earth and "brownfields" that have emerged due to past negligence.

Effecient Living- Earthships

Rapidly growing, our family visited some different types of homes. While looking we discussed our options, of what attributes ranked importance for us. We visited an earthship which consolidates waste; self generates, and lessens dependency of the grid. We chose to build an Earthship that helps the earth, cost effective, and higher efficiency than a standard house. While building we tested different methods of efficiency in our home, making our earthship have a lighter carbon footprint. Options were limitless, both efficient and resulting with being "light footed." Commencing this grand project our lives were highly affected; over viewing limitless designs we chose the economical, simple, spilt level design. We started saving for land, but building our Earthship and still working created problems when completing goals on a schedule. Our family eagerly waited for Earthship living to commence. Like all situations we, took risks, sacrificed, and adapted reaching a lighter footprint.