How can I start going green?

Question

personally for my ownself first and as an individual?

Answer 1

PB & J!  Seriously, eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of a hamburger and you'll help the environment.  Save land, water, and greenhouse gas emissions.  Check out the link.

Answer 2

1) Buy a chainsaw and drive in a hummer to some remote forest. Cut down as many trees as will fit into the hummer.

2) Drive back to your house. Turn on the AC at full blast.

3) Start a bonfire in the middle of your lawn, using the trees you have already cut down. Feel free to add some tires and some copies of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

4) Add fluorescent lightbulbs into the fire.

5) Crack some fluorescent lightbulbs open, dig a hole, and spill the mercury into that hole.

6) Light a torch and get some neighbours to join you in a procession where you eventually end up at the car dealership, singing, "We shall not be moved."

7) Set fire to some more trees.

Answer 3

I currently run ethanol (corn alcohol) in a 1999 Dodge 3500 truck. But all Cummins engines were modified from the factory to run on BioD since around 1992 without any modification.

Most vehicles are already equipped to run on Alternative Energy. In fact you’re probably even driving one right now and didn’t even know it. Go to www agua-luna com for a list of this vehicles

The following are a couple types of products to make ethanol easily. There are however many materials one can use including sugar cane, corn, wood, etc. The information was cut directly from a guide I offer at www agua-luna com, it is complete but if anyone’s interested in other types of foods to use or a more specific step by step of the process, including building your own still legally, visit www agua-luna com

"THE usual sources of raw material for alcohol Ethanol production from starch are cereal grains such as corn, wheat, rye, barley, milo (sorghum grains), rice, etc. Other types of starch are available from potatoes of all kinds, Jerusalem artichokes, and other high-starch vegetables. Starch conversion is the standard method of production and the one we will discuss here.

It is possible, however, to make alcohol from sugar-producing plants (saccharine material) such as sugar beets, sugarcane, fruits, and others. These substances need no milling (as do grains), but they do require some kind of grinding or squeezing process. Rapid, efficient fermentation of these sugars has not been as well explored as the process using starch.

A third source of fermentables is cellulose, as found in wood and waste sulphite liquor. This more complex process requires the use of acids to reduce the material to wood sugars. Consequently, most do-it-yourselfers should stick to either starch or sugar.

MILLING

All grains must be ground before mashing to expose the starch granules and help them remain in suspension in a water solution. The grain should be ground into a meal -- not a flour! -- that will pass a 20-mesh screen. On a hammermill, however, a 3/16" screen will suffice.

Potatoes and similar high-moisture starch crops should be sliced or finely chopped. Since potato starch granules are large and easily ruptured, it isn't necessary to maintain the hard rapid boil which is required of the tougher, dryer "flinty" starches found in grains.

CONVERSION WITH ENZYMES

For small batches (5 bushels or less), fill the cooker with water (30 gallons per bushel), and add the meal slowly, to prevent lumps from forming. (When, cooking with steam, or at higher temperatures, it is possible to save energy by using less water at the beginning. But for the "small batcher" with an ordinary cooking apparatus, the most complete conversion is obtained by using the full amount of water right from the start to encourage a rapid rolling boil.)

Next, add 3 measuring spoons -- as provided -- per bushel of Alpha Amylase Enzyme (mixed in water) to the mixture and raise the temperature of the mash to 170 deg F (77 deg C), the optimum working environment for the enzyme. Hold the solution at that temperature for 15 minutes while agitating it vigorously.

At this point all the starch available at 170 deg F has been converted to dextrins, so it's time to raise the temperature of the mash to the boiling point. The concoction should be liquid enough to roll at its own rate -- if not, add 2 to 3 gallons of water. Hold the boil for 30 minutes to complete the liquefaction stage. All the starches are now in solution.

Now reduce the temperature to 170 deg F, using the cooling coil, and add 3 more measuring spoons per bushel of Alpha Amylase Enzyme (mixed in water). After 30 minutes of agitation at this temperature, all the previously released starches will have been reduced to dextrins, thereby completing primary conversion.

During secondary conversion the dextrins are further reduced to simple sugars (maltose and glucose) by the beta, or -- to be more exact -- glucoamylase enzymes. You need Alpha Amylase Enzyme and the yeast necessary to carry out secondary conversion and proper fermentation simultaneously, you can add 6 measuring spoons per bushel of the fermentation powder (mixed in water) as soon as you've brought the temperature down to 85 deg F (29 deg C) using the cooling coils."

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

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Answer 4

Get a mac mini computer to replace your current clunker. The mini uses the least amount of idle and processing wattage of any desktop computer. Or, just don't install vista on your current one. Vista makes the processor work harder and makes it work all the time to deal with it's bloated os and the "aero" interface.

Your computer is something you use often, make it energy efficient.

Answer 5

You can do so many things. Let start with saving water in daily use. Saving air pollution while you drive..

Turn off lights when you dont use them...

More informative ideas..

http://livegreenideas.blogspot.com/

Answer 6

Go you for going green!! That's a great step to help saving our planet. So here are some things so you can start going green...

1) Reduce, reuse recycle! Remember to do all three, they're all important.

2) Start using canvas tote bags when you go to store. When your in line buying your groceries, before the bag boy or the clerk starts ringing things up, give them your bag and they will put all they can fit in the bag.

3)You can look for companies that are "going green" and support them. For example, I know that my Wheat Thins by Nabisco are in a 100% recycled box.

4) Buy things second hand, check out the thrift store. It's cheaper and better for the environment!

5)Kind of like number 3, buy "green" cleaning supplies, like the brand Green Works.

6)Buy florescent lightbulbs, you know the ones that use way less energy.

7)Compost!! Things such as banana peels, or apple rhines, are great things to compost. This can then be good dirt for your garden and stuff, and is keeping garbage our of landfills.

8)If it ain't to far, forget the car! Hahah, try to drive less, and walk some more. It's healthier for us, and the environment.

Good luck in your new lifestyle!

Answer 7

It's probably easier to wait until around Halloween but here is a site that sells green make-up:

http://www.centurynovelty.com/detail_172...

Here you can probably get information about green hair dye.

http://haircrazy.info/

Good  luck going green :)

Answer 8

well you could recycle

Answer 9

Just use your common sense and think of all that you do and how just one thing a week could help

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You know your life better than any person here and what is available to you to use or not use to help make an example for others to see

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Yes to been seen by others is the biggest help out any one of us can do

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Then the domino effect comes into play

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Answer 10

Here is a link to 53 ways you and your family can conserve energy at home: http://www.reupower.com/energysvc/53ways...

Also, check out www.lime.com, it's my favorite resource for all things green.

Answer 11

NO NO NO don't buy the fluorescent light bulb!!! it has mercury in it, and is a serious health hazard if it breaks in your home!! And think of all the danger massive numbers of these light bulbs will have in landfills when people are forced to buy them?!?  The mercury levels will be through the roof!!

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTI...

But I guess, in the name of Al Gore's Global Warming, if its clean for the environment, we should all spread sulfur in the atmosphere to block the suns rays from warming the planet, (sarcasm... but these guys aren't) http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...

BUT WAIT!!! I thought sulfur in the atmosphere caused acid rain!?  But we are supposed to do it anyway?!  The environmentalists are loco...

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I have hope for the future.  Hope that the hypocrisy of the environmentalists will be seen by all the world!

Answer 12

simple and basic things can be done. No matter how small it will make a difference

- turn lights off when you leave a room

- don't leave the water running while brushing your teeth

- turn the thermostat up/down

-refuse plastic bags -( take a cloth reuseable bag with you when shopping)

- use reuseable water containers

just a few simple ideas

if you look at the archives of yahoo answers you will a lot of similar questions and can get more ideas

Answer 13

Roll up a big one...

Answer 14

For me personally, I've been doing A LOT of research and experimentation with Gamma radiation.  I'm hoping to set off my Gamma bomb sometime this summer, being bathed in gamma radiation, and turning into The Hulk when all is said and done.  If that isn't going green, I don't know what is.  Plus you can throw cars and tanks around which would be pretty cool.

Answer 15

Well, start to adopt the following:

*Travel in mass transportation systems and leave your car home. Do avoid to drive single user vehicle.

*Use less water to discharge less sewage.

*Harvest rain water, use water-saving toilets.

*Segregate garbage and compost kitchen wastes.

*Use CFL bulbs, solar hot water heater.

*Don't use any product which uses plastic to pack food or other stuff.

*Use less of everything that you use in your daily life.

Answer 16

start recycling, using canvas bags while shopping, find a snazy store that sells enviromentally friendly clothes, get a hybrid (I prefer the prius or smart car), unglug any electronics when they are not in use(they are in standby mode which takes up energy), buy floresent light bulbs, contact your energy company, but I'm sure there are many more ways to conserve energy and go green. Go to PGE.com too