Debra Baker

Bought this vegan beauty box on a fantastic black friday sale from vegancuts.com! While holiday shopping for yourself and loved ones, remember to look for cruelty free and vegan products. Anything NOT contributing to climate-change-causing animal agriculture and abuse will help the earth, and your heart. #greenbeauty #ecobeauty #holiday #climatechange #crueltyfree #holidaysales #vegan #vegancuts

A photo posted by Debra🌲🌲🌲 (@mindyourfootprint) on Nov 30, 2015 at 2:12pm PST

   

This was my first instagram post on my eco account!

No time for a long run so I did these two #workouts. Difficulty 3/5 (hard but short) *good exercises but the titles are misleading. 1. You can't spot reduce fat and heathy thigh gaps are dependent on genes and are v dumb 2. Probably wont actually burn 200 cal* Anyways, remeber to stay #heathy! You cant make the earth healthy if you're not!!!!

A photo posted by Debra🌲🌲🌲 (@mindyourfootprint) on Sep 15, 2015 at 9:21pm PDT

     'This' is why I care so much about creating this blog. I want to educate others, and educate about things that matter, and I want to motivate myself to learn as much as I possible can. I care so much about science. I care so much about knowledge, and truth, and I want America to head in this direction again. The old fogies aren't doing it, so us young folks have to; we ARE the heart of the nation.

This page will be devoted to all that is green, and will probably include all posts from my mindyourfootprint Instagram account. Being environmentally unconscious is the absolute most important thing to me, so I thought I'd dedicate a whole page to it, to that consciousness with the world.

• Decomposing fabric can release methane into the air, and chemicals such as dies or retardants in to the ground.
• if all of the textile waste we normally generate in a year didn't end up at the landfill, we would be looking at a savings of $375 million dollars in fees alone!
• Cotton growing takes a about a quarter of the pesticides used in the U.s. Pesticides are linked to a lot of different nasty things, including colony collapse disorder, a pandemic in the bee population. In case you didn't know, bees pollinate flowers, and are incredibly crucial to the environment and our food department and entire way of life.
• According to the  U.S. National Labor Committee, workers, manufacturing YOUR clothes halfway across the world in sweatshops that YOU don't have to loo at, can make as little as 12 to 18 cents an hour. 
• The 15% of discarded clothing/fabric that is recycled, prevents about 2.5 billion pounds of waste from going directly to the waste stream. 
• Since clothes from most popular stores are so cheaply made nowadays (forever 21, h&m, such and such), they often end up being unusable by the time they pass through the first user and get to a thrift shop. Only about 1/5th of clothes donations are actually sold. However, they can sell them to textile recycling factories, so don't think that there isn't a use for even your really old clothes! 

https://www.change.org/year-in-review/2014?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=218876&alert_id=cbUonqdWoV_qU54jY%2FDdpuR8Hufy15AUs%2FDCvkzWHVFL1QKwIu6beQ%3D

     This is a short video. Unfortunately, it's not on YouTube so blogger won't support it, but I put in a
screen shot so you know what you're clicking on. The video's an ad for Change.org, but I thought that it touched on some really important things. Change.org is website for online petitions, and it's the biggest of it's kind. Last year, 5,000 petitions made on the site were successful, or one every hour. A 27 year old cancer survivor stopped a hazardous coal plant from being built. Two girls started a movement to prevent female genital mutilation. Journalists were released from prison. Libraries and Bison alike were saved. Businesses from  Coco Cola to Barbie agreed to change they're practices and the NYPD launched a body cam project.  I've seen many people saying that these kinds of sites don't make a difference. This proves that these websites are actually really helpful, that one person can make a difference; that thousands of simple signatures can make a bigger one.

     One of the things that has always annoyed me is people saying that they have nothing to do. (Though I have done this many times.) Being bored is fine. Everybody get's bored, and when there's not enough outside stimulation to keep our brains happy, it can be hard to motivate yourself to get up and do something to un-bore yourself. But please, do not say that you have nothing to do. Half the world is starving and without functioning toilets and sinks, the ice caps are melting, schools suck and like, a lot of other terrible things that could use your help. You live with at least a million other people in a hubbub of different tastes and sights and scents, and, most likely right in front of you, is a magical box with 99.98% of anything you could ever want to know. There is ALWAYS something to do. Not only something to do, but there are always worthwhile, productive, people helping, and exciting things to do. You just have to move your butt. Anyways, if you want something easy and worthwhile to fill your time, go to a petition site. Look for things that you care about. Educate yourself about what's happening in the world. Add your signature to a few causes that catch your attention. You'll be helping to change the world, I promise you it's a good use of your time, and "I was helping to save a starving family in Mongolia," is more likely to get you an extension than "I was whining to my friends on Facebook."

 Friendly reminder that in 2008 we grew enough to feed 11 billion people, but 45% of child deaths are still caused by malnutirtion. Anyways, you should all watch this video I found on upworthy. It's really short and rather interesting.