30 ways to save the enviroment.

In your home

1. Recycle everything: newspapers, bottles and cans, aluminum foil, etc.
2. Don't use electrical appliances when you can easily do by hand, such as opening cans.
3. Use cold water in the washer whenever possible.
4. Re-use brown paper bags to line your trash can instead of plastic bags. Re-use bread bags and produce bags.
5. Store food in re-usable containers.
6. Save wire hangers and return them to the dry cleaners.
7. Donate used items to a charitable organization or thrift shop.
8. Don't leave water running needlessly.
9. Turn your heat down, and wear a sweater.
10. Turn off the lights, TV, or other electrical appliances when you are out of a room.
11. Flush the toilet less often.
12. Turn down the heat and turn off the water heater before you leave for vacation.
13. Recycle your Christmas Tree.

In the yard

14. Start a compost pile.
15. Put up birdfeeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths.
16. Pull weeds instead of using herbicides.
17. Use only organic fertilizers.
18. Compost your leaves and yard debris, or take them to a yard debris recycler.
19. Take extra plastic and rubber pots back to the nursery.
20. Plant short, dense shrubs close to your home's foundation to help insulate your home against cold.
21. Use mulch to conserve water in your garden.

In the car

22. Keep your car tuned up and your oil changed.
23. Carpool, if possible.
24. Use public transit whenever possible.
25. On weekends, ride your bike or walk instead.
26. Buy a car that is more fuel-efficient and produces lower emissions.
27. Recycle your engine oil.
28. Keep your tires properly inflated.
29. Keep your wheels properly aligned.
30. Save trash and dispose of it at a rest stop.

 

31. Go veggie/vegan
32. Most importantly get proper insulation for your house

 

Nah, hasn't the world already been "saved" by the eco-freaks, some zillion times or something?

Conservation is seriously overrated. It only has but short-term benefits for individuals and families, but as human populations naturally grow, more of everything is needed longterm. So produce more = more potential profits for more people needing more jobs anyway. See how it works itself out, naturally? Of course better technology quite often produces lots more of most everything, for even less money with less consumption of resources, also unlocking more resources for the use of man.

I wish more people would consume less, but not for the ridiculous fiction of "saving the world," but rather, to stop being such stupid consuming pawns of the greedy corporations. And for a somewhat quieter and simpler life. Whatever happened to finding people at home anymore? What? Did they all go to Mars, and not invite me? I call people, and only get an impersonal answering machine, and then people sometimes forget to return their calls. People with cellphones, seem to always be interrupting everything around them, either with a constantly ringing phone, or yack-yacking away. What's a measly $60 a month, to be constantly interrupted by a stupid ringing phone? And to not have to be, where one is? Bored in Church. Not to fear, no doubt somebody inconsiderate will call during "Church hours."

 

33. Change all your lightbulbs to Flourescent.
You save money in the long run. (Lots)

 

Yeah, I like the idea of having bright light, without all the heat to make the air conditioning run more.

But I hate that my nice florescent fixture I put in, at one end of my living room, a really nice reading light, doesn't work again. And it's too hard to open up to work on it. So I have to put up with the incadescent light spilling over from nearby my favorite glider rocker chair, until I can get around to working on it.

So where are the "last forever" home LED fixture lights? I like saving money on electricity, but it would be even better, to have lights that actually work a longer time.

 

That's the most important imo. If you want to save the environment, you have to save the environmentalist, which means healing your health and your karma...you can't heal the planet if your not healed yourself


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Also according to http://www.newstarget.com/021916.html , 10,000 pounds of mercury are released into the environment a year from those lightbulbs.

 

See? Those enviro-wackos will not rest, until they have driven us all back into some Dark Ages or Stone Age or something.

Just wait. No doubt, some "environmental" extremists will soon "discover" something wrong with the hybrids too, perhaps all those chemicals that go into making the batteries, or that even rechargable batteries don't last forever and then have to be disposed of somehow, and then set out to eliminate cars altogether.

 

http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/io/2007/03/is_a_prius_worse_for_the_envir.html

But nickel is recyclable, so once the technology is developed and in place, hybrid cars will be very beneficial. No car is good for the environment, hybrid cars just happen to be a promising technology for the present.

 

There only needs to be one.

Be personally responsible for your own life, and do no harm.

 

Any suggestions that aren't an incredible waste of time or ball-numbing pain in the ass?

 

Yeah. Stay home more, buy less junk, and people stop being such a patsy or wage slave pawn for the giant greedy corporations. Shop at Mom & Pop stores to boycott the corporate domination of culture and crappy TV shows that they sponsor, make more stuff yourself if you reasonably can, and otherwise explore how to drive more of the economy underground where it can't be taxed, until we get some serious tax reform relief.

How about not doing something. What could be easier than "not doing something?" Buy Nothing Day = April 15th.

 

My bad, I should have been more specific.

I should have said "Anything easy to do that DOSEN'T involve living like a 3rd world pig".

People buy things, as hard as this may be for you to accept, because they WANT them.

There is no vast global conspiracy that you, the mighty brain, have figured out.

Stop equating not caring with not "understanding".

 

you are very lazy. Many of those require little work.

 

"turn my heat down, wear a sweater"????

So basically, you want me to pretend I'm poor.

No thanks.

This is why your goals will never be met in this country.

If you can find a BETTER, CHEAPER, way of doing things it will be accepted instantly. Who wouldn't want a car that could run on water?

However, as it is, your only "solution" is for people to make REGRESSIVE changes to their lives.

You want to live in some filthy earth-hole wiping your ass with a dirty rag?

Knock yourself out.

Just don't expect the rest of us to play along.

 

Third world pig? Well I am not quite sure what that means, but do you suggest here, that you want to live like a "1st world pig" instead?

I understand that a serious fault with the nonsensical suggestions which they would perhaps like to mandate, of the so-called "environmental" movement, is that they expect for prosperity to end, or to make it end, or for people to pretend like they are poor, which of course is absurd.

No, I don't want to turn off all the lights nor be in the cold. No, I don't want to go back to whatever "Dark Ages."

I wasn't saying to live like one is poor, but rather questioning the "Buy! Buy! Buy!" shop-aholic mentality that greedy corporations like to foster, as I like to have more free time and live somewhat more simply, if at all reasonably possible. I am a natural introvert or home-body, and to "go somewhere" seems like "work" to me. Go where? Why go somewhere? See?, I got out of my bed and I am here already, along with my books and video games and mail and stuff, so why should I have to "go somewhere?" Get out map and plan how to get lost? Spend money? Share the road with idiot moron drivers in a hurry who don't bother to use turn signals? Subtract driving time from whatever free time of the day I might have liked to have? I was questioning American "Afluenza" in which we think we are so affluent, that we can't ever be content with what we have already, but are conditioned by the corporations, to always want more and more. Running air conditioning at home, and turning up the reading lights, is reasonable, but what about all these wasteful people who miss an opportunity to boycott the greedy oil corporations, out there on the road, towing boats and jet-skis, and from the way some people go drive somewhere late at night (surely not all those people are going to work?), you would think gasoline was nearly free? I wonder why people with RVs, can't wait for the gasoline prices to go down? (If they can afford RVs, then gasoline prices don't matter?)

So what do you want then? A way to sacrifice, without it being sacrifice or inconvenient? Well I have the answer to that. People in India and China are getting cars, and at least for the moment, world population continues to grow. Apparently there are still lots of parents out there, still resistant to the lies of the population control freaks. Enviro-wackos want to prevent scarcity, by causing scarcity and interfering with production. A terribly inconsistant or dishonest way of not fixing what needs fixing. Demand for energy can only reasonably be expected to increase, not decrease. So produce more. Duh? Drill more oil wells. Build more hydro-electric dams, more "unsightly" wind energy turbine/windmills, more nuclear power plants. If or as cities grow bigger and more numerous and closer together or denser, so that so many people may go on having their precious darling children that they have so many compelling reasons to go on having, which I dare not argue against, as I would cite all those reasons too, it's going to take more energy to run all those refrigerators and air conditioners and cars.

I know people want things. That's why we must produce more, so that even the working poor can afford many of those things, and not jack up or bid up prices to the extent that only the elite rich can afford the necessities of life.

Yes, there is a vast "conspiracy" of problem pukers following the devil, opposing needed reforms, thinking only of themselves or their special interest, trying to put corporations ahead of people, and otherwise opposing what ought to be "common sense." Sad to say, many people say that "common sense" isn't so common these days.

 

I recall enviro-wackos suggesting that everybody turn their heat down to 68 degrees Fahrenheit, oh just a few decades ago. Never mind that nursing homes need to be warm, because of all the old people. Never mind that many homes have old people in them. Sure, wear a sweater. Well I like to wear a sweater if I am wearing so many clothes already, but then I am still cold? We save some supposedly huge amount of energy by turning down the thermostat just a few degrees? Oh really? Well isn't that why we put all that insulation in our homes, so we could more afford to keep them warm? Why else would you wrap a "blanket" all around a house? Yeah, I want to save money, but then why not just turn the heat off? Or heat just a small room? If I have to pay all that money to stay warm, why not pay a tad more, and be comfortable? Just like "environmentalists" to mind everybody's business but their own. Besides, if I am not around other people, I really rather not wear so much clothes. Somehow, they just aren't comfortable. I like to go around barefoot, not wearing anything but boxer underwear. And maybe a soft bathrobe, if really necessary. Not wearing regular workclothes with lumpy stuff pockets. Besides, my gas logs help concentrate the heat in the living room anyway, and the colder bedrooms compensate for the warm living room.

Well I agree that we shouldn't have to pretend like we are poor. I don't feel "guilty" to run the air conditioning in my car, since have the expense is probably in just being equipped with air conditioning, and opening windows also causes drag which reduces gas milage, even more so than running the AC, or so claims some MythBusters racetrack test, in which they ran cars comparitively, with open windows or with AC, and the open windows car ran out of gas first.

Well I have been wanting those household LED lights, that the stores or manufacturerers keep dragging their feet on, as surely I have have bright light in my home, without spinning the electric meter or baking in heat making the AC run? But regardless how many LEDs sell, there will likely always be more refrigerators, more air conditioners, more electric hot water heaters to supply more hot water to more "squeaky clean" people taking more baths, afraid of a wee bit of "BO" or sweat. The goal of cheap energy, can be met by producing more, not by insane "global warming" CO2 reduction targets, a thinly guised plot to steal away people's freedom and sovereignity, and put us all under the tyranny of unaccountable globalist conspiracy entities.

Water is not an energy-fuel, well unless cars gain nuclear reactors? The flying cars on The Jetsons cartoon surely must be nuclear-powered, because they go too fast, consume too much energy, and yet are refuel way too seldom to possibly be based upon any conventional chemical reaction. With futuristic nuclear reactors, hydrogen from water can safely be converted into harmless helium, with very neglible "environmental" effects, well unless the blurred shadows of flying cars, will then be called a form of "pollution?"

"Environmentalists," that's who. For how would a car that runs "on water" shut down industry and steal away people's freedom? They always find something "wrong" with anything that benefits man, because they have this bizarre earth-worship "religion" that says that man is an "intrusion" upon nature rather than a natural God-created part of nature, man even transcending nature.

Otherwise, people affect their environment. But then even animals have effects on the environment. Why can't people also? And some scientists are good to point out, that the "regressive" changes can actually cause more "damage" to the environment. More technology gives people more options to get more from less, or with less supposedly negative affects on the environment, which helps all the more, to allow for human populations to grow naturally more dense and vast, more comfortably and safely.

Yeah, what's this nonsense I hear from eco-freaks about "composting toilets?" That sounds more complicated, not less. What's so "bad" about flushing it down to the water-treatment plant? For normal household use at least, water is cheap, well until the eco-freaks manage to jack up the price, just like everything else they meddle with? With over 6.5 billion humans on the planet, I hardly think we all can all go live in some cave somewhere. There must needs be lots of houses, apartments, and buildings. I don't want to be in some filthy hole, nor without my bulk-purchased stockpile of toilet paper.

I'm for living more natural, but not if it is going to be inconvenient, non-workable, unhealthy, or less natural for humans actually. There is a need for a sensible balance of natural and technologically-sophisticated.

 

the trouble with fanatics is that they only seem capable of thinking in extreme terms.

we're not talking about poverty-level regressions here. these suggestions are small-scale adjustments that will make your life cheaper and simpler in the long run. the ecological benefits of a single person's actions may be minimal, but if enough people are energy-efficient and don't needlessly waste power, then problems like pollution will be reduced.

we can't make these problems just go away, but we can reduce our contribution so that future generations are not left to clean up all of our mess. it's about being responsible with what we've got, instead of the arrogant attitude that everything on the planet exists solely to serve our needs.