Anyone here a greenie?

I think it is important that we look after the environment and I have done a lot to change lately. For example, I never accept plastic bags anymore, at the shops, even take away places like subway. I just tell them I don't need a bag. I know it's not much but 1 less bag used is one less bag wasted that ends up polluting things.

So, if you have any tips that are easy to do that help the environment, post here!

PS: I also take a shower only once every 2 days. This is because I am lazy, but I am also saving water ;D

 

We definitely need more people like you on this planet

I on the other hand is a pretty big resource waster......i usually shower twice a day (feels so good!)
the only "green" thing i do is that i recycle a lot......i do use lots of plastic bags.........and fill up my car with petrol very often
my electricity bill is quite high too......so yeah

nice to see you doing something nice to the planet, i still have much to learn

 

i was thinking of getting a solar panel to run my hot water tank........
the hot water tank contributes to 70% of my total electricity bill....

yeah there are MANY areas i need to improve on when it comes to global warming.....but i have to drive.....u can't get anywhere in australia without a car.

 

My mom is the same. Except for the shower part. She showers everyday. Oh, and we have a compost pile.

 

Heh, I wouldn't say I'm green by choice, just by culture. Electricity bills are extremely high where I live, so we shut down everything not needed, my state is constantly in drought, so we all don't shower everyday, there's not many trees (Yes, that makes a difference in price), so we use plastic bags and recycle them.

 

eh, my family uses plastic bags as trash bags.

 

LOL That's not being a greenie. Everyone does that.

 

it's putting things to good use. what good is not taking it? it's already been made, and you aren't exactly damaging the production figures

 

Off topic slightly, but here's some information you might be interested in - globabl warming is a natural part of the earth's cycle of life. What do you think happened to the great glaciers that ocvered most of the world during the ice age? The planet's temperature rose by several degrees, and the ice melted.

We are currently in what is known by geologists as an "interglacial period" which means we are between the last glacial period and the next one. The planet's temperature may continue to rise still, even by as much as 4 degrees (which is a lot more than what it sounds in global terms) and then when this temperate period reaches an end, the temperature will drop again and the earth will enter a new ice age.

In my mind there is no theory or argument that can refute this idea, since it is indisputable that there was an ice age thousands of years ago, and it certainly wasn't greenhouse gases from cro-magnon and neanderthal man's campfires that melted the glaciers.

People are worrying about pollution for all the wrong reasons. We should pollute less not because it's causing global warming, but because we're poisoning the air, filling the water with chemical toxins, and killing off vast tracts of land that will now be unable to grow anything for years to come.

Just..think.

 

Yes global warming is a natural process, but since the industrial revolution, the RATE of earth's average temperature increased dramatically. Carbon dioxide from industrialization and urbanization and deforestation is trapping heat inside our atmosphere.

We need to slow down the RATE of melting of polar ice. If the ice keeps melting, the sea level would rise and flood MASSIVE amounts of land. Manhattan or Los Angeles or Tokyo or Shanghai would be completely in water if the polar ice keeps melting. Many of the people on Pacific islands would have their ENTIRE island flooded. Where will the millions of refugees go? Your house?

global warming / climate change has caused a 10 year long drought in Australia - which is where I live. Lots of farmers cannot grow or raise anything simply from a lack of rain water, 4 farmers are commiting suicide each week from financial difficulties caused by the drought. The famous, beautiful Great Barrier Reef are dying because sea temperature are also rising

We really need to decrease the rate of global warming now.

 

Yeah, although the Earth is supposed to be heating up naturally, you cannot say that we have no part in the Earth's warming. We are making it heat up faster than it should be. All the greenhouse gases stuck in the atmosphere has SOMETHING to do with the earth heating up.

So while we should be polluting less to save our waterways, give us cleaner air, and reduce crap in our food, we should also be doing it less to reduce global warming. We should take responsibility for our own actions and not pretend that things were meant to happen because nature said so.

Every little bit counts, even reducing the rate at which the Earth warms up by 1% over the next 10 years is a difference we need to aim to make. And I am sure we have the ability to do so, it's only a question of if we will try.

 

what about cow farts? they do more then us

a real shame, honestly. but such things do happen, i can hardly imagine that australia hasn't had a drought before the industrial revolution

because humans are so all-powerful? there are things greater then mankind. if something was weird about the sun, then some people would say that that's our fault too

heh heh, exactly

 

Erhm you're not damaging them by yourself, but when more people do it, it helps. I think it's not cool to say you can't do much by yourself anyway, so you just don't do anything and/or leave it to others... I'm not saying you're saying that, just putting that in as additional info =P

 

The Aust government recently announced that we'll get a $AU8,000 ($US6,750) rebate for installing solar panels on our roof. I'm planning to take advantage of that

But is it true that solar panels have a use by date of approx 5 years? There are people complaining that theirs stopped working after 5 years.

 

I don't see how that would help. What would we do with a bunch of cells on our roof producing glucose and adenosine triphosphate? Photosynthesis makes food, not electricity.

 

Artificial photosynthesis is going to be great for the atmosphere because absorbs CO2 and gives out O2.

We can also ferment the glucose to make ethanoal, then dehydrate it to make ethylene. Ethanol can be combusted for energy and and ethylene can be turned into just about anything

 

Nah just get real crunked on the ethanol

 

Heh, in the UK a greenie is when you cough up a ball of phlem :thumbup:

...I'm not implying anything, its just one of those amusing things .

 

i am known as the hippie at my school. i diss all the politicians people and pro economy people. they don't realize, that without a stable and strong environment, then the hopes of human survival and lower than nothing, therefore, everything they have accomplished money wise will be gone, and in the poof of a cloud, human existance will be no more

 

Come on now...we'd still exist. It might be a totally destroyed ecosystem, but as a species we are very adaptable. That's the only reason we're able to live in cold climates, and have spread all over the globe from Africa. And I think Starcraft refelects that very well; the terrans buildings don't need pylon or creep to be built, we can adapt to any new situation rather quickly