Easy Ways To Go Green
February 20, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Copyright © Margie Franklin
What does go green mean? Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Our environment is in need of lots of TLC and the time to take action is now. Caring for the environment is very important. Today, we are experiencing a lot of environmental complications.
It’s not hard to advocate for the environment. It only takes perseverance, self-commitment, and the realization that all things start small. A big mission always begins with a commitment to one’s self and the desire to do something that helps others.
Dust Control May Possibly Be Contributing To Global Warming
January 18, 2010 by Go Green Tips · Leave a Comment
As we humans go into another decade we are faced with the subject of how to restrain worldwide warming. We must evaluate all aspects of global warming and decide what we can do to help stop the change. Not to long ago I overheard an important person that I well respect talking about the need for dust control in addition to talked about elevated fugitive dust that people are creating. So I decided to study this possibility from a historical viewpoint.
When we examen the levels of dust emissions within today’s surroundings, we quantify this in terms of particulate matter, usually abridged to merely PM. Particulates are tiny subdivisions of hard matter hovering in the air. If you might imagine the finest dust may possibly have began as a large bolder. This dust ultimately reaches an elevated level in our atmosphere at which point it develops a layer of dust insulation. May it be that our lack of dust control has amplified the levels of dust in the atmosphere to the point that it has caused a rise in the earth’s warmth?
when we look back in the past it is easy to realize that mankind had a lower influence on the environment with a lesser population. There were fewer cars, building sites, roads and all together a lesser amount of activity to produce fugitive dust. There was not as much agricultural or tilling of the top soil but as the population increased the requirements of man followed and as a result did the dust.
We look way back at these actions and realize man has definitely amplified the levels of dust pollution as a result of their activities. But we have to also understand that man has as well aided in decreased levels of dust through innovation.
In the past a lot of the paths that we traveled were made from the most accessible matter in the general area. It was not exceptional to find a stretch of street consisting of no more than earth. The roads are still widespread in our day but today we utilize environmentally safe dust control products to cut down the dust generated whilst driving on these roads.
In the earlier times there were usual prairie and woodland fires that generated fugitive dust from the burning trees, brush and grassland. Not only would the dust levels escalate from the burnt vegetation, but the newly burnt terrain would now without difficulty release dust particles into the atmosphere with a minimal shift in the winds. Several of the fires began from a single well positioned lightning strike in an uninhabited area. These fires were left to burn due to the lack of assets to battle such fires and on occasion the lack of citizens to report it. Now these fires are quickly attacked and brought under control.
These improvements can only be credited to the progression of man and have in reality lowered the levels of dust the air. In lots of places road dust control has enhanced the roads to the point that one can hardly tell if the road is concrete or soil.
After considering the odds that man made dust is attributing to climate change I have come to the deduction that if anything, man has helped bring down the levels of dust not increased it. I hope this clears the air on this topic. I guess we will merely have to blame climate change on sun spots.
How Your Food Choices Can Help The Planet
January 13, 2010 by Go Green Tips · Leave a Comment
You don’t have to be a environmental scientist to know that we are having a huge influence on the state of our planet and people are only starting to take action now. Twenty years ago, very few people even thought about where their food, tableware or clothing etc came from. Most just bought what was most convenient at the time. This attitude is not sustainable however, and a shift in thinking is needed especially in these times of weak economy and global warming. Taking some time to think about where you get and how you consume your food can have a surprisingly big impact.
Local Producers. It seems all to easy these days to buy exotic fruit whenever you want it or pick up some foreign spices from the local shop. The fact this produce is sourced thousands of miles away has not long been in people’s consciousness and the impacts are large. Not only does the transport release vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, due to burning fuel and having to use a food and wine cooler to keep the produce chilled all the way, but also local food suppliers struggle to compete with low foreign costs. By doing as much of your shopping in local stores as you can and buying local produce, you will secure your communities future and help save the planet at the same time.
Choose Less Packaging. You only have to take a walk down one of the isles to see how much food packaging is wasted making products look pretty. A single cake might be singly wrapped, inside a little box with a plastic place-holder, which is cloaked in cellophane and transported within a cardboard box, with the other cake boxes. More often than not this packaging is unnecessary, so try and avoid those products that go over the top with it.
Green Accessories. More than just the food you buy can influence the planet when you eat. Everything from the cutlery you use to the little wine gifts you buy others can have an impact and you should think carefully before making a choice. Ask yourself where this product has come from, is it something that could be made from a more sustainable material, and is this a disposable product when I could be buying a reusable one? Disposable chopsticks for example cause thousands of trees to be cut down every day, when a good reusable pair can last a lifetime.
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