What will you do to help stop Global Warming?
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When I have errands around town, I ride my bike. I use an evaporative cooler instead of an air conditioner. I water my grass deeply once a week instead of shallowly every day. I don't use fertilizers or pesticides to keep my grass green or my veggies growing. I have replaced several of my regular light bulbs with CFLs and we recycle everything that we possibly can, including kitchen scraps. We turn off lights that aren't being used and turn off the TV when no one is watching. We take shorter, cooler showers, have a low flow toilet and faucets and wash our laundry in cold water and hang it out to dry as the weather allows. We also buy things in bulk to cut down on unnecessary packaging as much as possible. If we could... we'd go solar, but that's not an option right now. Is there something I missed? Probably. But I'd say that's a pretty good start. Wouldn't you?
Try to trade in all the crap Al Gore told me to buy for Y2K.
Nothing. If the hypocrites (Al Gore) that preach about it do nothing then I do nothing.
there is not much you can do, since it is part of a natural phenomenon.
I will close my eyes and plub my ears. When people realize there is no such thing as Global Warming then I wll stop.
You act as if global warming is a bad thing.
My "other car" is a bicycle.
What's Global Warming?
Extra ice in my Jack and Coke?
Well Im not exactly sure what could be done to slow the warming of the earth...I imagine with a large enough bomb we might be able to blow the sun (prob the real cause of Global warming) out of the sky...but then where would we be. oh. oh i know, IN THE DARK!
Though I do suppose that would take care of a .7 degree increase in temp over the last 100years.
More importantly, what will you do? will you turn off you computer and sit in the dark? will you eat you tofu, and rice raw and cold? ( remember electricity uses coal) will you chose to ride a bike, instead of your car, forgetting that the bike is made of iron, which required mining coal to make the steel, rubber to make the tires, gas to haul the bike to the store to sell, cardboard to pack the bike in. So if you are so worried, what are you going to do to make al gore and Nancy happy?
Well Now we have invented many clean sources of energy like Hybrid cars and nuclear power, fuel cells etc. Is we manage to use it in a large scale, that could possibly mean less use of fossil fuels and less emission of green house gases.
And of course plant trees.
There is nothing we can do to stop the natural cycle of the earth and the sun. The cycle will eventually end, however.
I do try to conserve energy. I drive as little as possible. I open my windows (with no A/C) on nice days.
What are you going to do to stop the earth and the sun from doing what they naturally do?
Nothing can be done. Even the IPCC scientists have said so.
I plan on taking out the sun. Darn thing keeps heating us up, why not go right to the source.
I turn off my computer every night and I don't leave my cell phone charger. I ride my bike to school everyday. And my parents ride public transportation a lot.
I'm not doing what you tell me to do just because you tell me if I don't, the world will come to an end.
Tell farmers about sustainable farming ,water harvesting and organic pest control,
Talk to kids about Environmental awareness
I have made a lot of gardens
I answer in yahoo
I have planted thousands of trees by now
And i have worked for 30 years +
develloping eco tourism ,and selfsustainable human and animal environments.
And send this message a lot and
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global warming cannot be stopped but we can stop helping it becoming faster,and being friendlier to out Environment cannot be bad
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The best we can do as individuals is be more responsible ,in our own neck of the woods
Organise well publicized clean up parties ,talk on the radio
Have citizan meetings
Get the shools involved to plant trees and listen to environmental awareness talks,
If you do any cleaning up leave signs behind saying who cleaned,why and ask people not to start dumping rubbish again ,leave a hole or bins ,in case people come with trash ,
We have done a lot of comunity cleaning and if you dont leave alternatives or try to work on peoples guilt feelings (some people actually have those ,but not many)
than your efforts are a waste of time.
That is what we do in Mexico
POSITIVE ACTIONS
Print Tshirts with slogans ,hang posters all over the place (with recycled paper if possible)
Classify trash take out all the organic waste and make compost with it ,the worst you can do is throw it with the trash
70% of contamination is due to organic waste that is mixed in with the garbage .
And it is just as bad in the sewer where it helps to breed rats and in the landfill it poisons the ground
And it is the easiest to take care of
o first of all we have to clasify trash at least keep the organic to one side ,like in a plasic bin with a lid
If you got a few meters of ground ,you only need 1 or 2 square meters in a shallow hole ,in the shade ,that you can wet now and again ,where you dump everything that is organic ,from toilet paper,bones vegetable cuttings ,eggshells,,dead bodies ,excrement ,and cover regularly with leaves to keep humid and to hide any smell
the worms will come and decompose the wastes truning it into beautifull blck soil for the garden of flower pots .
If you are in a apartment ,if you have a balcony get a big plastic bin drill some holes in the side and lid ,
Add a few buckets of sand now and again to put over the trash ,you should realt stir or move the stuff at times to airate it and ensure that the decomposition is overall ,keep moist
This rubbish does not get big very fast and the thing works for a long time with out getting full
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these are Al gores sites
http://events.stepitup2007.org/...
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If you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown the destructive processes
Reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.
The capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.
The world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia
Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.
The protection of existing forrests.
Stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.
Education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.
Education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´population
Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.
More environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks
More dams.regulations and control for public behaviour
Alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine
Recicling wastes,limit water use
Here are a 100 more ways
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