The Friday Five for 10 July 2020: Green Green Green

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In honor of the Green Party of the United States Presidential Nominating Convention, which is being held this weekend and will be livestreamed (https://www.gp.org/live) for those who want to watch.

1. Where is the most beautiful nature in your area?

2. Does your household grow some of its own food?

3. Do you recycle or repurpose a lot, a little, or somewhere in between?

4. What do you think the most endangered part of the Earth is?

5. What is the single best way for an individual to help the environment?

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[ayebydan]

1. Where is the most beautiful nature in your area?

We are actually rather spoiled for choice around here. My town is surrounded by protected 'green belt' or land the government is not allowed to build on. We have a lock lake) of fair size around our Palace that is home to many birds, ducks, geese and various other critters as well as providing shelters for foxes, hedgehogs, bunnies, badgers, pheasants etc. A major canal route runs through our town housing similar critters and of course both places have your frogs and toads and the loch has fish. Allegedly. I've seen many sitting in their boats but have yet to see someone haul anything out looking pleased. XD But I gues the birdect population eats something.

We also have a country park to the north of us and as well as wild deer living in the hills there are also those kept in the park along with sheep, goats, hogs of various types, highland cows, a salmon farm, etc. The park allows you to walk through wooded areas either on trails or not that either just lead around each other or lead towards these places. Another loch is up the northern part of the park near our extinct volcano.

I had to really think about this because I am so lucky. A lot of things around me I take for granted because to me and my town it is normal. I have an American friend who adores sheep and never lived near any. To me sheep are annoying areseholes who need to GET OFF THE F-ING ROAD.

2. Does your household grow some of its own food?

Not currently. In the past, I have managed some strawberries and carrots in tubs but they were too small and I didn't have my patch in time to move them up so they suffocated. Paw has agreed to a full on vegetable garden but it has taken a lot of work to shift various things around. The canal burst around 15 years ago and the water flooded half our garden. Nothing will grow there now. You would have to spend hundreds if not thousands replacing soil etc for several meters across and deep. But all our sheds, bins, etc have been in the 'healthy' part of the garden. But things now seem on the up for us to have a crop next year. I used to do all the stuff in my gran's patch and many friends grow theirs so I'm itching to get started and very confident.

3. Do you recycle or repurpose a lot, a little, or somewhere in between?

Our council area in Scotland makes you do that really. We have three different bins that go out in cycles. So every second Monday is either a small wheelie bin like this or a larger blue one. We don't pay for them but that was just the best link. If you have more than four people in your house you can order a second small black bin with a red lid to show that is your extra one. Anyone can request as many blue bins as they like.

Black is for nonrecyclable (by our system!) waste like soiled nappies, wetwipes, ruined clothes, dishes or plastics you have no chances of fully cleaning etc, aerosauls, make up and stuff like that. The see through windows on envelopes. And crisp packets. They were recyclable until around six months ago when the council changed their mind.

Blue is for...nearly everything else that hasn't been alive at some point. Paper. Plastic. Tin. Card.

The brown bin goes out once every four weeks in Spring and Summer and once every eight in Winter and that is for garden waste and food waste. Food waste used to go into these little caddies collected once a month but not enough people were using them and there were too many incidents of the little bins blowing away and denting cars after collection. So now it is all in the garden bin. And that gets taken to council wide compost site which is then handed out to ...people who have allotments and such I think?

Metal, like...bars off an animal cage and glass are things we don't get collected anymore (your old pot can go in the black bin) and you have to take that either to the community tip for just metal or your glass can go there or to bottle banks distributed around the town. Where it is broken down my colour. So that is everything from a jar of jam or a bottle of rum.

Law abiding people will take their metal and glass away. Those not so abiding will hide it in their black bin under something that IS allowed to go in there. Because the lorry turns two bins over at a time the drivers can't prove which bin broke the law.

So I think in general we're enforced to be good here :P And of course you pay for carrier bags here and we have taxes to do with the environment so Scotland is pretty good that way in general. Different councils are better and pick up your glass different but yeah. I like it here.


4. What do you think the most endangered part of the Earth is?

Toss up between the ice caps at either side or the Amazon region of South America. Not just Brazil. South America. That place is big. Either way the actions of humans are destroying our planet and there is just no way to deny that now. Anything that might have been regular has been sent into overdrive meaning the planets natural response will never meet this crisis in time.

5. What is the single best way for an individual to help the environment?


Protest big business. My lamp is not an issue. Your showroom of cars is. My car is not an issue. Your fleet of jets is. Ask why buildings are lit up at night. Ask why companies can release balloons into the atmosphere when they open new buildings. Ask why private corporations are even able to go to space and release that much crap into the atmosphere? Ask why countries that can survive on solar or wind power have nuclear power stations? Ask, educate and protest. And remember anyone can do that from anywhere.