Tip # 14 - Be an Eco-Tourist - Travel Responsibly

Wherever you are traveling, please keep in mind that you have an impact on the environments you travel through.

Please refrain from feeding animals for the following reasons:

• Wildlife can be susceptible to human diseases. They can actually die from bacteria transferred from you, which have no ill effect on humans.
• Irregular feeding leads to an aggressive behavior towards humans and other species.
• When we feed an animal, we are actually affecting its` natural diet. Fruits, especially those containing pesticides, can upset their digestive system or cause dental problems that can lead to death.
• Feeding creates a dangerous dependency on humans that diminishes the wildlife’s survival capabilities.
• Feeding interferes with the wildlife’s natural habits and upsets the balance of their lifestyles.
• Contact with humans facilitates poaching and the trade in illegal wildlife and makes them an easy target for hunters.
• Please, help us spread the word, be an ecotourist by explaining to your fellow companions.
• Please let nature take its own course!

Tip # 3 - Freecycle

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe.

It's a grassroots, nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.

More information: http://www.freecycle.org/

1001 Green Tips for a better life - The Begining

The tips that will be posted in this Blog have been gathered from all around the world and the cyberspace from many people and places.

The goal was and still is to create a list of 1001 everyday tips that can change our life, our enviroment and our world.

Feel free to comment on the tips and to email me new ideas.

A good think tank for more ideas can be found at The 1001 Everyday Life Tips for a Better World Group at the Care2 Network.

Please enjoy and live well.