{"id":133,"date":"2007-11-17T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-11-17T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:18:47","slug":"daily-things-i-do-to-make-this-world-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/daily-things-i-do-to-make-this-world-a-better-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily things I do to make this world a better place"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Recycle. After reading about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2007\/10\/19\/SS6JS8RH0.DTL&amp;type=politics\" target=\"_blank\">problems plastic is causing<\/a> in this world (essentially all plastic ever produced is still in existence), I try to make sure to recycle all plastic. When my friend, not knowing about the recycling of plastic in Bulgaria (it&#8217;s something we don&#8217;t do in Holland&#8230; &#8220;Boo!&#8221;) threw what was meant to be recycled in a normal dumpster, I almost went dumpster diving&#8230; Before I did, I questioned my sanity and decided I needed some more time to think about it so I didn&#8217;t dive in after all.<\/li>\n<li>Like in Holland, bottles of beer have a &#8216;return-fee&#8217; on it. However, I did not know this in the first weeks I was here. The deal is&#8230; when you return a bottle, you have to take one out also. I doubt that there will ever be a moment where I&#8217;ll be buying 40 half litre bottles of beer, so every now and then I put some bottles outside for the poor scavengers to take advantage of.<\/li>\n<li>Turn off electric stuff, heating, etc. Even though I love coming home in a warm house, or though I would like to make potential burglars think there&#8217;s someone home&#8230; the planet cannot afford this. Besides that, it&#8217;s cheaper to keep stuff turned off.<\/li>\n<li>Every day I try to read or participate in at least something regarding activism. Online usually. For instance, I became a volunteer journalist for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rethos.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>By sponsoring, you can actually help finance solutions for a lot of problems in this world, one click per day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleaid.com\/stumble-aid-charities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check this out<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most important<\/strong>: vote with your money! When presented with a choice, favor the company who&#8217;s more eco-friendly, or does other things to make this world a better place. Don&#8217;t go to McDonalds, Burger King, etc. Don&#8217;t buy Disney products (not like I would, but still). Stop giving your money to evil corporations. Consider buying a hybrid so you stop fueling oil wars. Your car is burning the blood of innocent (and less innocent) people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votewithyourwallet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read what people are doing with this<\/a> (click). <a href=\"http:\/\/money.propeller.com\/story\/2007\/11\/03\/your-money-the-power-of-you\" target=\"_blank\">Or about shareholder activism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, I probably talk about this stuff every day. Spreading awareness is the start. More people need to be aware, so more people will start taking action. Might be stuff I&#8217;m forgetting here. Plus there&#8217;s stuff I don&#8217;t do daily.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycle. After reading about the problems plastic is causing in this world (essentially all plastic ever produced is still in existence), I try to make sure to recycle all plastic. When my friend, not knowing about the recycling of plastic in Bulgaria (it&#8217;s something we don&#8217;t do in Holland&#8230; &#8220;Boo!&#8221;) threw what was meant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}