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| Views Take Action! Demand Action! Become a Leader in your community Organize weekly or monthly neighbourhood meetings to improve the quality of air and cleaner streets. Get Involved Demand Elected Officials to take action, write letters to different levels of government heads, media, TV personalities. Talk to neighbours and ask them to do the same thing. Five factors stand out as the leading drivers of growth in the renewable energy industry:
Conservation seems to be on everyone's mind lately. How to save energy, save money, save resources, and most importantly, save the planet (which is the only one we have at the moment). Going Green is definitely the trend and the term reduce, reuse, recycle is used over and over by eco-friendly crowds. Lately a fourth "R" has emerged to join the ranks of planet-saving steps. This article will discuss what these four "R's" mean and simple ways you can practice them at home, in the car and even at the workplace. Reduce Reduce refers to reducing the amount of energy you use and the amount of waste you create. There are several simple ways to do this that don't cause much inconvenience to the average person. Being conscious of the package on the items you buy is one easy way to reduce your consumption. Avoid products with layers of packaging when one would do and purchase refillable products and their refills whenever possible. Plan your meals ahead and avoid wasting food that has gone bad waiting for you to cook it. Store or freeze leftovers for another day. Consider signing up for a service that will reduce, if not eliminate, the amount of junk mail you receive (this is a win-win for you and the planet). You can find such services by typing "junk mail" into Google. Also avoid buying magazines and newspapers that waste thousands of trees each year. Get your news online or on the television. Finally, plug all your appliances and electronics into power strips which you can easily switch off at night and when you're not using them to avoid "phantom drain" of your electricity. Not only will you reduce your energy use, you'll reduce your energy bill. Reuse There are many products that can be reused instead of thrown away. Unfortunately, most of us were brought up in a disposable society and think nothing of tossing products away when we feel they have served their purpose. For example, if you currently buy individual liquid hand soap dispensers for each sink in you house, you can buy one large bottle of hand soap and refill the smaller containers over and over again. Giving donations are another way of reusing items. You are giving something you no longer find useful to someone who can use it without them having to buy it new and use up all resources that go into creating a new consumer product. Reuse the back of your printer papers by flipping them over and printing on them again (just make sure they aren't used for your kids homework, teachers find this annoying). If you grow a garden or would like to, you can use your old vegetable and fruit wastes for composting. Shredded paper, coffee grounds, eggshells and brown leaves can also be reused in this way. The resulting organic compost is like gold to gardeners so even if you don't want to use it, you can probably find a beginning gardener to buy it from you. Recycle Recycling is similar to reusing in that the same item is used again. However, with recycling, the item is broken down into a more basic substance and reformed into something entirely different. For example, a pile of plastic soda bottles can be reformed into a child's sandbox. It's important to know your community's rules about recycling because every place is different. On plastic products, for example, you should find a number surrounded by the recycle logo (it looks like a triangle made out of arrows). Certain number plastics are more difficult (and more expensive) to recycle so many communities only accept the easier to process numbers. You should be able to find out your local laws either on your city's website or by calling your local city hall. Aside from plastics, which can be tricky, you can usually recycle any cans made from metal, any containers made from glass, juice and milk cartons (with the tin cans and glass jars), newspapers, magazines, any printed paper, and food boxes (like the ones pasta comes in). Recover New to the recycling scene, recovering energy from waste is an idea that has been around for many years, up until recently the fastest way to get rid of municipal waste was to dump it in landfills, however, every ton of garbage is approximately the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil. When we recover energy from waste, it leaves zero carbon foot print, as we are not drilling for oil or mining coal which takes a lot of energy to arrive at the consumer level. An average citizen in developed or developing nations generates about a kilo of garbage per day, when you accumulate and convert that into energy, worldwide it’s an equivalent to a staggering 2 billion barrels of oil per year that could be utilized instead of wasting in landfills. |
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