What it actually means to be environmentally friendly

ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, etc. We ourselves wanted to deal with what these words really mean because we hear them always and everywhere. Especially nowadays they appear all the time, but what is really behind it?

We try to shed some light on the darkness and explain.

FAIR TRADE

Fair Trade is a controlled trade. The producers of the traded products or product components usually a different certain of the individual fair trade organizations "minimum price" is paid. This is intended to enable producers to earn a higher and more reliable income than in conventional retail, even at lower market prices. The amount of a fair price has been a topic of business ethics that has been discussed for millennia. For this purpose, in this form of trade, attempts are also made to build long-term "partnership" relationships between traders and producers. In production, international environmental and social standards, as well as those prescribed by the organizations, should also be complied with.

The very heterogeneous fair trade movement mainly focuses on exported goods from developing countries to industrialized countries. Fair trade encompasses agricultural products as well as products from traditional handicrafts and industry and is increasingly expanding into new areas such as tourism under the name "fair travel". Fairly traded products are offered in natural food and world shops and in supermarkets and restaurants. 

ECOLOGICAL -> NATURE

The ecology (ancient Greek οἶκος oikos' house', 'household' and λόγος logos' doctrine'; thus "doctrine of the household") is according to its original definition a scientific sub-discipline of biology, which the relationships between living beings (organisms) and their explored inanimate environment. In the second half of the 20th century, the term was increasingly used to denote the overall environmental situation, but it also became more diffuse overall. The adjective "ecological" was mostly used colloquially as an expression for an attitude or an act that is careful with environmental resources. 

SUSTAINABLE

Sustainability is a principle of action for the use of resources, in which the preservation of the essential properties, the stability, and the natural regenerative capacity of the respective system is in the foreground.

Sustainability means that you think about what effects the things you do in the long run. And trying to keep things as they are. Or to improve. But definitely not to deteriorate! Take the environment as an example.

When you talk about the fact that you have to start living sustainably on earth, the point is that you try to pass on the state of the earth to posterity in such a way that posterity can live just as we do now. 

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

Environmentally friendly living in these steps:

REFUSE:

If you think about whether you really need it before buying and then discover that it is unnecessary, you don't cause any waste. And this garbage, which then doesn't even arise, is by far the most environmentally friendly! So think about it first and don't get carried away by consuming it.

REDUCE:

Reducing applies to so many areas of life. We could minimize everything that causes waste and emissions: exhaust fumes/emissions, etc., plastic packaging, this excessive and cheap consumption of meat, heating energy, paper. This list would be infinitely long if one were to list everything.

REUSE:

How about your own, reusable, and much more excellent travel coffee cup made of bamboo instead of the new daily?

RECYCLE:

Recycling is a great thing, but please, only when the points mentioned above are no longer applicable. After all, further processing of the materials also costs energy, and only about half is properly recycled, the remainder is simply burned.