Over the ages, being eco friendly has taken on a lot of meanings.
There was a time when you were eco friendly if you just stopped using paper.
But the definition of eco friendly products definitely changed over the times.
In more recent times, if you used predominantly natural products, or their derivatives, you were using eco friendly products.
However, today, the definition has broadened more.
Today, you are eco friendly not just by using eco friendly products, but also by taking care that the environment is not harmed in any way by the way you are using these products.
Though the meanings have changed, the basic essence remains the same.
We have to be friendly to the ecology.
And what does ecology mean? Ecology is a broad biological term that encompasses the various interactions different plants and animals have with each other.
Our earth would not have survived if these relations did not exist.
Thus ecology becomes the basic supporting system of the planet, whether it is the ecology of the Pacific Ocean, of the ecology of a rotting tree stump in a forest in Ghana.
These are all parts that make up the all-important whole.
And that is why we need to go in for eco friendly products today.
By doing so, we are using products that are all natural and non synthetic, and not just that, we are taking care that our environment is not harmed in any way.
Replacing internal combustion engine vehicles by electric driven cars is one way we are trying to do this.
Putting solar panels on the roofs of our houses is another way.
Farms in most European and American houses that are using the power generated from windmills is yet another superb manner in which we are becoming eco friendly.
But we need not think eco friendly products are always big and expensive.
There are various small things that we can do at our own level to become eco friendly.
Just using only as much electricity as we want or recycling all paper that we use or not allowing the faucets to drip are all ways that we can implement in our homes.
Though these are not eco friendly products per se, they are acting for the same purpose.
They are also helping us to protect the environment by saving the exhaustible resources that exist in it and that way they are helping us to secure ourselves and your succeeding generations for the future.
But we can use completely eco friendly products and provide our contribution to the environment too.
We can use solar cookers for example.
We can use only cotton and linen and not those synthetic materials that look flashy but do nothing to protect our environment.
We can put our own household mini-bans on using plastic and buy products of friendlier materials such as paper and cardboard.
There are hundreds of things that we can do to be harmonious with the environment.
It is all in taking the first step!