Showing posts with label BEING GREEN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BEING GREEN. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Corner View: Green/Nature

Caring about nature and the world around us is so important. I already wrote about our ways of green living here but I don't think I mentioned that growing your own veggies and fruits is yet another way of being green. I know it's easy when you have a house with some space outside that you can turn into garden but living in a city doesn't mean you can't grown your own. Last year we managed to have our very own lettuce, radishes, herbs and carrots; we tried to grow tomatoes too but we failed (the photo below of beautifully grown tomatoes was taken in autie Rosanna's city garden where she also successfully grows other vegetables and fruits).


Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in a house surrouned by this amount of greenery? I often wonder if people living in this house are happier just because every day they wake up to this scenery. I bet they are.
I dream that one day we will have our own house with a garden to grow all kinds of veggies and to live our green happy life to the fullest.

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For more green Corner Views, please visit Theresa's blog.

Monday, 18 May 2009

“When the last tree is cut down, when the last river is poisoned, when the last fish is caught-
then you will understand that you can’t eat money”






On Saturday we went for a stroll in the historic centre of Genoa. There was a fair trade market taking place in Porto Antico- we couldn't miss it. It was a bit disappointing because the variety of products wasn't as wide as we expected. We left with a bag full of organic teas and coffees and we also bought some cosmetics (we always go for the ones that are not tested on animals). I was very tempted to buy some of the pottery- some of it was really beautiful.

(The quote in the beggining of my post is taken from the black T-shirt; it gave me goose bumps the first time I read it).