Live Earth
August 2007

Eat Green: Make your own meals  
Jane R. from Cave Creek, AZ wrote in with many tips that are great for folks in hot, desert climates, but here's one that works everywhere:

Make your own meals:
Instead of buying prepared meals, frozen dinners, boxed and packaged stuff, we start with fresh meats/seafood, vegetables and herbs - local and organic where possible - and keep it simple but nutritious and delicious. At first, it seemed like more time and trouble but we've found that once you make it a habit and rediscover cooking, you can get pretty fast and efficient.

Find a Farmer's Market  
This is the best time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere) for local produce - corn, tomatoes, and fruit are at their peak. Looking for local unprocessed food near you? Check out this directory of local farmer's markets across the United States: www.localharvest.org

In the UK look here: www.farmersmarkets.net and in Australia look here: www.farmersmarkets.org.au/ 
 
Can It! 
 If you do buy canned food, be sure to recycle. Recycling a single aluminum can conserves 96% of the energy used to produce another from scratch.