Your Questions About Green Living

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Study French if you do not know it currently. The Quebeqer dialect is recognizable still, so that will work. Maybe pick up a third language as well.

If you attend church, talk to them about becoming a missionary. Alternately there is also the US peace Corps, which you should have no trouble signing onto. Or you could talk to the Canadian Ministry of State, and talk to them about your desire. If they have a program or know of one, or you could ask them if Canada has any diplomatic corps in the region. Ask them what they are needing and wanting for qualifications of prospective candidates.

Doctors Without Borders. They need medical staff, they also need general personell who can do things over there in the field no matter where they go.

If you happen to be in college, talk with the student advisors, talk with the African Studies department,

If you already know how to make a brick machine, purify water, etc, etc, etc, as well as how to grow subsistence crops in that region that are resistant to existing crop diseases, not to meniton how to utilize green amaranth and other potential seed crops that do not need fertilizer of great amounts of water, then you would likely be readily accepted as missionary or potentially with some segment of foreign aid activity over there. You can pack your rocket stove and water bottle.

The most important thing to remember is you do not have a Princess Tire down the road nor any major stores. If you do not know how to prepare food from scratch and improvise, learn. Learn what plants grow in that region, and know what is edible and what is not. Dehydrating food is another potentially useful skill.

Essentially- if they were to simply to drop you in the middle of the country- could you survive with nothing more than what you can carry in a shoulder satchel? If you can- great, because it means you should be able to help others survive who litterally have next to nothing but grass and sticks to build a house.

Also study up on the region, the religions, the traditions, the cultural norms, etc.

Worst case- Be your own charitable organization. But be able to “deliver the goods.”

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Every tonne of paper recycled avoids over 1 t CO2-e being released into the atmosphere. If added to landfill, organic matter will decompose anaerobically (without air) and is released as methane into the atmosphere which is 21-25 times more potent than normal CO2 -unless it is flared or converted to power. Recycling also uses around 60-70% less energy than extracting new resources and turning them into paper. It is said, 1 tonne of recycled paper could save enough energy to light the average home for 6 months and save 17 trees from being cut down which are also absorbing CO2 through Photosynthesis. So keep recycling!!!!

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The US used to have that even with a commuter lifestyle . The problem arose with the shift from a production oriented to a services oriented economy forced on us by political hacks lining their pocket with gold by giving incentives to large companies to shift manufacturing to third world counties with extreme human rights violations and plenty of child labor.

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Leather

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You can reuse bottles and paper over and over again. You wont have to cut down any more trees