Sunday, September 10, 2006

You all know what you have to do.






















Please, I urge you all to watch this film... An Inconvenient Truth By Al Gore.

Want to do something to help stop global warming?
Here are 10 simple things you can do and how much carbon dioxide you'll save by doing them.

1. CHANGE A LIGHT.
Replacing six regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs will save 400 kg of carbon dioxide a year.

2. DRIVE LESS.
Walk, bike, carpool or take public transport more often. Tou'll save 1.5kg of carbon dioxide for every 5km you don't drive!

3. RECYCLE MORE.
You can save 1000kg of carbon dioxide peryear by recycling just half of your household waste.

4. CHECK YOUR TYRES.
Keeping your tyres properly inflated can improve your car's fuel efficiency. Every litre of petrol saved keeps 2.5kg of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!

5. USE LESS HOT WATER.
It takes a lot of energy to heat water - use less hot water by installing an energy efficient triple A rated showerhead (3 tonnes of carbon dioxide saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (225kg saved per year)

6. AVOID PRODUCTS WITH ALOT OF PACKAGING.
You can save 545kg of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%.

7. MOVE YOUR THERMOSTAT DOWN 2 DEGREES IN WINTER AND UP 2 DEGREES IN SUMMER.
You could save about 900kg of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.

8. PLANT A TREE.
A single tree will absorb one tonne of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

9. TURN OFF ELECTRIC DEVICES.
Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo and computer when you're not using them will save you thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide a year.

10. BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION.
Learn more and get active at www.climatecrisis.net

1 comment:

Mariya K said...

Here's what I was talking about earlier from high school... just so things don't seem so bleak :)
Makes me happy to see desert being scared away
Oh and hope you saw the supa cool desert storm that blew over the atlantic off the sahara desert beacuase there is too much loose dirt there

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2267652.stm

On the ozone front... it keeps changing size so I don't think they can really come to any conclusion yet
check out:
http://www.theozonehole.com/