Life is a journey and I think I have been asleep (naive) for most of mine, however for the last 4 years, with the benefit of more spare evenings to myself, I have felt wide awake and concious, soaking up information at an alarming rate (but sadly not retaining much of it 
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I have met some interesting people, some kind, some foolish, some lost, some who’s glass is always half full and some people who are downright mean and selfish.
I started out travelling in an “eco” direction learning about permaculture, peak oil, GMO & Monsanto, solar energy, earthships, eco villages, politics, poverty, bureaucracy, wind power, recycling, land fill, tsunamis, global warming, famine, deforestation, alternative therapies, world hunger, processed food, wild flowers, wildlife, agriculture, ethically farming, organics, soil preservation, biodiversity, capitalism, transition towns, sustainability, living off the grid, pesticides, herbicides, nutrition, councils, charities, funding, wealth, money, corruption, routine antibiotics, incredible edibles, locavores, gardening, trees, allotments, wheat grass & juicing, food ethics and growing your own.
What I found on route is that whenever I supported a good cause and shared my excitement with like minded people they would burst my bubble by giving me the arguments against the cause and which also made perfect sense to me. This did result there for a while, in much confusion and the occasional day of depression. It did soon occur to me however that the whole time I was concerned about environmental issues I was getting more and more hooked on the food ethics side of things of growing my own food and eating non-gmo organic vegetables and this started to play a huge part in my daily existence and began to take over my world.
The journey is just beginning for me however, since watching the documentary, Forks over Knives I have become a vegetarian and since watching a further live stream broadcast I am making changes to becoming an (unprocessed) vegan. I do feel the need to say that my choice to not eat meat comes from purely selfish reason regarding my health and not from the the animal welfare platform. That being said, I am appalled at modern farming practices and I used to eat meat with an ethical approach choosing only higher welfare or free range meats. I am still not sure whether I would eat some meat if the care and welfare of the animals were the first priority.
There are many things I am still uncertain about except the fact that ” you are what you eat” (and drink) and with that being a given, the next part of my journey is all about logistics, time management, energy levels, knowledge and finances.
What is really ringing loud and clear in my head are green smoothies. They almost seem too good to be true (well apart from the fact you need about £300 quid to buy a blender) but they are ringing true and after a few more demonstrations on youtube I think I’ll have to start looking at ways of implementing them into my life. For information on all the “green” topics on this blog visit the following link Green Guide
