Climate Saving Tips Part 2

TIP: Plant native trees. Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and use it as their energy source, producing oxygen for us to breathe. A tree in the temperate zone found between the tropics and the polar circles can remove and store 700 to 7,000 pounds of carbon over its lifetime. A tree that shades a house can reduce the energy required to run the air conditioner and save an additional 200 to 2,000 pounds of carbon over its lifetime.


TIP: Turn down the heat. Heating and air conditioning draw more than half of the energy that a home uses in the United States. Turn down the heat or air conditioning when you leave the house or go to bed. You can easily install a programmable thermostat that can save up money and carbon.


TIP: Buy renewable energy. Electricity generation produces 40 percent of carbon emissions from the United States. A growing number of utilities generate electricity from renewable energy sources with solar panels, windmills and other technologies. If your utility offers renewable energy, buy it. If not, send them a message asking for clean energy.


TIP: Act globally, eat locally. If you shop at a supermarket, the food you buy may travel in a plane from the other side of the world, burning fossil fuels the entire trip. Shop at a local farmers markets and you will find fresh and healthy food, and help save our climate.

Climate Saving Tips

We can all lower our carbon emissions by following these energy and climate-saving tips.


TIP: Travel light. Walk or bike instead of driving a car. Cars and trucks run on fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In the United States, automobiles produce over 20 percent of total carbon emissions. Walk or bike and you'll save one pound of carbon for every mile you travel.


TIP: Teleconference instead of flying. For office meetings, if you can telephone or videoconference, you will save time, money, and carbon emissions. Airplanes pump carbon emissions high into the atmosphere, producing 12 percent of transportation sector emissions.


TIP: See the light. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs. These energy-efficient bulbs help fight climate change because they reduce the amount of fossil fuels that utilities burn. You will save 100 pounds of carbon for each incandescent bulb that you replace with a compact fluorescent, over the life of the bulb.


TIP: Recycle and use recycled products. Products made from recycled paper, glass, metal and plastic reduce carbon emissions because they use less energy to manufacture than products made from completely new materials. For instance, you?ll save two pounds of carbon for every 20 glass bottles that you recycle. Recycling paper also saves trees and lets them continue to reduce climate change naturally as they remain in the forest, where they remove carbon from the atmosphere.


TIP: Inflate your tires. If you own a car, it will get better gas mileage when the tires are fully inflated, so it will burn less gas and emit less carbon. Check your automobile monthly to ensure that the tires are fully inflated. Follow this tip and save 300 pounds of carbon dioxide for every 10,000 miles you drive.

Making Your World Healthy

Your house, your car, your yard - that is your little world.  The best way to make the planet healthy is by making the things around you greener. Think about the environment you live in everyday when you make decisions.  


This is a world small enough for you to make changes that make a difference.
The Best Part is...


You don't have to change your entire life.  Make the simple changes around your house that really can make a difference.  A Healthy Planet starts by Thinking Globally but Acting Locally.
5 easy steps towards a healthy home and a healthy planet include:


Recycle - This can be as easy as putting the 'trash' into a different bin


Reduce Water Usage - Install low flow faucets and shower heads.  Put a timer system on the sprinklers.
Reduce Electicity Usage - Install low energy flourescent lights.  Don't be afraid to flip that switch when you walk out the door.


Go Green - More and more companies sell some great 'green' stuff.  Look for recycle materials and environmentally safe products.  It is safer for the planet and your family.
Buy Green - Support companies that do their part.  Making a healthy planet is their job too!

Quotations about the Environment

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~Henry David Thoreau




The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.  ~Havelock Ellis,The Dance of Life, 1923




There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.  ~Mohandas K. Gandhi




There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.  ~Robert Orben




It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill.  It was yours.  ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990




Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison




In America today you can murder land for private profit.  You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.  ~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971




Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.  ~Quoted in Time




Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.  ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990




When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50.  When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.  ~Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985




Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.  ~Henrik Tikkanen




I'm not an environmentalist.  I'm an Earth warrior.  ~Darryl Cherney, quoted inSmithsonian, April 1990




I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?  ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985




Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.  ~Michel de Montaigne, translated

How to Make Green Cleaning Recipes That Really Work

Don't waste your money on harsh cleaners that pollute your indoor air and dump toxic chemicals into your water.

When we think of air pollution, we generally think of places like the LA freeway. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that indoor air pollution is sometimes 30 times worse than outdoor levels. And a lot of that has to do with the harsh cleaning products we use to clean our homes, and the chemicals they contain, which can actually make us sick and pollute the environment.

Researchers are finding that many familiar household cleaners contain compounds that trigger asthma or contain plastics chemicals linked to infertility, eczema, birth defects, and just plain rotten indoor air quality. Cleaning up your cleaning habits is a great way to commemorate Earth Day; it protects the environment from harsh chemicals, but also keeps harsh fumes out of your house, protecting your family's health, too.

And there's one more benefit: Because the ingredients are so much cheaper, making your own green cleaners will save you money

Make Environment Better

Detergents are not the only problem hurting the environment. If we really want to make a difference lets pitch in by: recycling paper and plastics, not littering, buying products without plastic or excessive packaging, using re-useable containers, save energy, walk or bike, re-use clothes, compost, using safe products, full load of laundry, grow your own vegetables and many others.

Schools and Businesses use “Green” cleaning products in , educate others about green cleaning products, start a project to save a local stream, clean up the park, have recycling bins everywhere and bring garbage free lunch.

Governments can also help: Make sure sewage is treated before going into ocean, ban PHOSPHATE detergents, educate public about “green” cleaning products, put up signs to save environment and fine companies that pollute.