It's been a while since the last You can make a difference tip. My friend S. has been busy....but also a little lazy I suspect.
This edition of you can make a difference tackles a hot topic (pun intended). We've been hearing about global warming for as long as I can remember, but Al Gore's recent documentary "An inconvenient truth" has brought the issue under the spotlight.
Here's what my friend S. had to say about this:
Reports reveal that human activities are behind climate change.
To avoid cooking our pretty planet to the max, switch off the lights, turn off your tv, and shut down your computer while you're out enjoying the sun, moon, stars and other mischievous activities.
Facts: The average home contributes more air pollution than the average car.
Leaving lights on for an extra hour each day over the course of a week releases 20 tonnes of green house gases.
Screen savers do not save energy.
On average, human activities release 70 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a day, every day! Emissions should be cut by 70% to 80% to simply stabilize atmospheric concentrations - and thus temperatures.
Why can’t climate change go unchecked? It's been a while since the last You can make a difference tip. My friend S. has been busy....but also a little lazy I suspect.
This edition of you can make a difference tackles a hot topic (pun intended). We've been hearing about global warming for as long as I can remember, but Al Gore's recent documentary "An inconvenient truth" has brought the issue under the spotlight.
Here's what my friend S. had to say about this:
Reports reveal that human activities are behind climate change.
To avoid cooking our pretty planet to the max, switch off the lights, turn off your tv, and shut down your computer while you're out enjoying the sun, moon, stars and other mischievous activities.
Facts: The average home contributes more air pollution than the average car.
Leaving lights on for an extra hour each day over the course of a week releases 20 tonnes of green house gases.
Screen savers do not save energy.
On average, human activities release 70 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a day, every day! Emissions should be cut by 70% to 80% to simply stabilize atmospheric concentrations - and thus temperatures.
Why can’t climate change go unchecked? This video says it best (for your viewing pleasure: have your glow sticks handy).
To be honest, I didn't realize that I, personally, was contributing so much towards global warming...I'm usually good with switching unnecessary lights off, and I spend all winter with my air conditioning switched off, but my computer is constantly switched on at home...And I'm sure that offices and malls could make the effort of putting the air conditioning down one or two degrees (why should I be wearing sweaters in the middle of the scorching summer??), and we could all make the effort to recycle more (or, in my case, start recycling!)...A little goes a long way...
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Generally speaking, it is motors that use up a lot of energy/electricity. So you should stress less about your computer and more for example about a tumbledryer, or even air conditioning fans. And also heaters are power hungry - though that is less of an issue here, except with water heaters.
Also screen savers were never designed to save energy, they were designed to save screens from burning out. But if you use a screensaver that fades your screen to black, that will save some power.
Great post! Hanging laundry to dry the natural way, pulling out the plugs from the sockets in your appliances (unless you have sockets that have switches on them to switch off power supply) all that helps save energy. Then there is the issue of water. Not letting the tap run etc. It's really a big change of lifestyle... I recommend this website, it's really interesting:
www.myfootprint.org
Check your ecological footprint on the world.
My computer shall remain on forever :P I refuse to have it stop downloading! LoL.
I hand up the clothes to dry by themselves too. I wish I live in a shelter in the woods next to a river.
In Dubai, I think more people should take up the fine art of walking, when I lived there, we walked everywhere, instead of being stuck for an hour in traffic...insane.
Totally agree with you on the airconditioning in offices, why is it so hard for them to get it right?
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