Anyone got any save the planet tips?

Question

apart from the usual, e.g not using plastic bags, anyone got any other tips on being more green/planet friendly?

Answer 1

there are a lot of ways

drive hybrid cars. if you don't have one or don't have the money to buy one, carpool or walk to places, buses, drive less. reduce, reuse plastic bags, recycle bottles, cans. save energy. unplug things when not in use. buy solar panels for your trailer for camping. if you don't have the money, that's ok because solar panels are like the price of two cars. for school work of office work, buy recycled line paper or recycled notebooks. save paper. grow trees. you can buy furniture that is hand made or made with organic cotton. you can but those things at the Green Store, but it's in Belfast, ME. if you don't live near there try,

Livingreen

218 Helena Avenue

Santa Barbara, California

Answer 2

The best thing one can do, hands down, is go vegan. How so?  1) Factory farming is one of the largest contributers to global warming due to all the methane produced; 2) the excrement from these farms contaminates our drinking waters; 3) the grain necessary to produce 1 lb of meat could feed many more people; etc.

Other non-environmental reasons: Better health, avoiding deadly bacteria such as E.Coli and Salmonella, avoiding pesticides and hormones, etc.

Answer 3

Basically, the same things your grandmother would tell you... :)

Dont by a Hybrid!!!  In fact, don't buy any new cars often because it takes a huge amount of natural resources to produce just one... (Meaning, maintain your existing car for an extra couple of years).  In fact, Hybrid cars deplete nickel mines at an alarming rate, and their batteries poison water tables.  In fact, if everyone drove a hybrid, we would deplete our entire nickel reserves in just a couple years...

Take care of your things, and try to not buy needless things that you will not use.  Also, do not throw away things that you still can use, no matter how cheap they are to purchase again.   This not only saves natural resources, but also helps with landfills....  And it just makes sense.. :)

Bike where you can instead of driving.  It saves gas, and will add years to your life...

There are plenty more, but I think you get the point... :)

Answer 4

Switch your everyday brands of shampoos, conditioners, deodorant, laundry detergents and household cleaners, etc etc to brands that are non-toxic and genuinely environmentally safe.  Many brands in the store are only 10% bio-degradable and thus are allowed to advertise themselves as being "eco-friendly" and that's not true.

If we stop using dangerous toxic products to clean our houses we can make a huge impact there, especially if it's highly concentrated so as not to fill up the land fills with so many plastic bottles!

Feel free to contact me if you're looking into natural alternatives.

Answer 5

recycle, drive less, eat less meat, use less water, use cfl lights, energy star appliances.

Answer 6

Well, apart from other significant things. Just as you might suspect, there's more to saving the earth than putting newspapers in a recycling container once a week.

Such as, Slowing down the consumption of wood your family might have, use 'environment friendly' light bulbs, get groups together to pick up garbage on the side of your local street. Recycle, Lecture  your 'polluting' friends constantly about it.

Buy a hybrid, join a group that goes against polluting and  'non' environmentally friendly living. Read documentaries about it, you see there are alot of things you can do...HECK! I do it! Don't let people put you off, because in a few decades we will probably have a recyclable planet on our hands. Where are we gonna go after that? Pluto? Mars? Urainous? Jupeter? Mercury? Venis? Saturn? Neptune? The infamous Planet X? or Naruto...

There are plenty of things you can do. Maybe.... even hand out free environmentally friendly lightbulbs to people in your area, It'll cost ya some money, but you are helping the environment. Even try to get others involved, because the more people involved, the more people that you have that are also helping the Earth, and the less you have causing the pollution.

Thanks,

The infamouse Courtney D.

Answer 7

recycle, don't litter, commute or ride a bike, turn un-used lights off...

Answer 8

this link is excellent and gives you some other ideas

http://www.gomestic.com/Personal-Finance...

BUT>..

THIS LINK is even more important.. and NEVER talked about.. well hardly ever...

http://www.socyberty.com/People/Solving-...

Answer 9

Switch a couple of light bulbs to energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. They are 75 per cent more energy efficient and last 10 times as long as regular bulbs. Each energy efficient light bulb keeps half a tonne of CO2 out of the air over its lifetime.

Let the sun shine in all winter. Keep your blinds, drapes and shutters open to allow daylight in. Even in the winter, sunlight creates passive solar heating. This can provide a couple of degrees of extra heat to a room for free.

Wash your clothes in cold water. Unless you’re a rugby player, it’s probably all you need. It can save you $85 a year and cut emissions by a third of a tonne.

Look for the Energy Star label on appliances. Products with this internationally recognized symbol use 20-40 per cent less energy than standard products. A new fridge could save enough energy to light an average house for three months.

Choose a laptop over a desktop. A desktop computer uses as much as five times more energy. Make sure you have your computer’s power management function turned on; screen-savers don’t save energy.

This fall, properly seal your house with weather stripping and caulking. In the average Canadian house the combined ‘heat leaks’ would equal a hole the size of a basketball. Keeping ‘leaks’ to a minimum can reduce your heating bill by 25 per cent.

Switch to a water-saving showerhead. They use half the water as a standard head, meaning half as much water to treat and pump.

Switch to a renewable energy provider, such as Bullfrog Power.

Eat local food. Yes, those organic raspberries you bought are nice, but if they had to spend three days crossing the continent by truck, they come with a big pollution price tag. Check the label and choose the locally-grown food and drink. It creates less carbon and supports Ontario farmers.

Choose an energy efficient car with good gas mileage. The better a car’s gas mileage, the lower the emissions. Remember, a litre of gasoline produces almost 2.5 kg of greenhouse gases. If you’re choosing between a car that uses 10 litres/100 km and one that uses 9 litres/100 km, that doesn’t sound like a big difference. But over one year of driving (say, 20,000 km), the car with lower gas efficiency uses another $200 in gas and creates an extra 500 kg of greenhouse gases!

Get your car tuned up and your tires properly inflated. Proper maintenance can increase your car’s efficiency (and cut your gas bill) by 10 per cent. Properly inflated tires reduce your vehicle’s emissions by 125 kilograms a year.

Stop idling your car. An average car idling for five minutes every day produces almost a hundred kilograms of CO2 emissions a year (and wastes a lot of gas).

Reduce paper use. Pulp and papermaking is the fifth largest industrial consumer of energy in the world, and printers and photocopiers consume a lot of energy. Use both sides of the paper. A high speed copier set to run double-sided can save your business upwards of $60 per month. Not to mention, reducing paper use means more trees left to remove excess CO2 from the air.

Turn off lights, printers, computers and photocopiers when leaving your workplace to reduce energy wastage.

Choose energy efficient office equipment. Look for the Energy Star label.

Try carpooling. Just one more passenger per car would mean over 25 million litres of gas saved each day.

Use video-conferencing instead of business trips to minimize your environmental impact through driving or air travel.

Encourage your co-workers and staff to find alternative methods of transportation to the office, and to support workers who use public transit. One busload of people equals 40 vehicles off the road during rush hour and saves 70,000 litres of gas.

Theres alot you can do and there are many websites that can help you become more energ efficient. Congratulations on going green!!