Question by Nemo: How can we make a city green starting from your home?
Before making a city green you must start at home or work. Ask your work to change bulbs to CFL or to recycle all waste products and to purchase recycled products. At home change all light bulbs to CFL and recycle all products from metals to foilage. Put in your best answer on what we can do to help start turning green from your home/work to city or state wide?
Best answer:
Answer by Ard-Drui
Buy only from companies who support the environment.
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here is a way to help make the whole planet green and it starts right in your home.
Over 80% of the dry tropical forests from northern Costa Rica to Mexico have been cut down. Areas of this size and larger have been cut down throughout the world including the Amazon, Indonesia, the Congo and other rain forests. The temperature after removing the rain forest has risen dramatically in these large tracts of land. The weather pattern also changes from this deforestation in each locality and they become drier. When these huge
areas have their trees removed, erosion dumps millions of tons of sediment into the rivers that flow into the oceans. This sediment slowly suffocates the polyps of the precious coral reefs in the tropics. What is the main reason for cutting these rain forests down? The main reason is to make room to raise cattle, not logging as many people think. With logging they generally cut down large hardwoods. To raise cow meat they cut down everything. In Central America
much of the beef is exported to the United States. The cattle industry, over all, causes more global warming than car emissions do. What can the average person do? eat soy, legumes and nuts as a protein source. This is a better way to practice sustainability. If the beef is grown in the United States sorry that isn’t sustainable either. A person who eats cow meat (beef) as their main protein source requires about 20 acres of land each year and over 2000 gallons of precious water to raise that steer for protein. That is not sustainability. A person eating soy for their main source of protein only requires one acre of land and about 40 gallons of water each year to grow it. Also, soy doesn’t add millions of tons of methane gas each year to our atmosphere. it actually absorbs co2. cows do produce over 100 million tons of this global warming methane gas in the U.S. alone. Cattle excrement also is adding to major pollution problems in our water systems today. Stop eating beef! Or if you absolutely can’t stop eating beef, cut back to once a week or once a month. if you must eat a meat chicken is much less destructive to the environment than beef, here in the tropics. Besides, refraining from eating beef is healthier in the long run.
Here is another important environmental disaster, 90% percent of the shrimp served in the U.S. and in other countries comes from the tropics. It is harvested in non-sustainable ways. I have witnessed in one month over 190 sea turtles wash up on shore with their fins cut off, dead from drowning by shrimpers in the osa penninsula. Along with that, for every pound of shrimp harvested, about ten pounds of other creatures are killed and thrown overboard. Yes, much shrimp is farmed. The farms are generally constructed where mangrove swamps, another very important and fragile ecosystem, have been cut down for this purpose and ponds are made to raise the shrimp. After the shrimp are harvested from these ponds the water in them is released into the mangroves. Unfortunately the nitrate level is so high that many of the mangrove fish and other underwater creatures die. So eating shrimp is not sustainable either for our planet. If you want to take responsibility in helping save our planet from global warming, deforestation of the rain forests, dying coral reefs there are many other eating alternatives. please, eat to live, don’t live to eat.
For our children’s sake and the sake of the rain forests, coral reefs and the entire planet we need to step up and do something other than practice over indulgence. Cavemen had to hunt to get their protein and that was ok. Then we started raising animals to get our protein and that was needed. Now we know how to get all of the protein we need from plants. So it is time to evolve another step and stop the senseless cruelty to raising animals for food and also help control global warming and its effects at the same time.
henry
jungle guide and conservationist .
Insist on using low or no VOC paints. Use native plants in your yard instead of the typical resource hogs recommended by landscape designers (you can find the native plant focused landscape designers for help). Buy organic food. Buy local whenever possible. Create the demand in your area for environmentally sound goods – ask for it!
Set your thermostat lower in the winter and higher in the summer. Even a few degrees will make a difference.
Install CFLs.
Use less water.
Plant some trees.
Dry some of your clothing on a clothesline.
Changing to CFL is just one of many ways to make a city green. Where I live, surrounded by open space, the Pacific Ocean, many trees/plants/wildlife. When I go walking I take a bag/gloves/grabber & pick up cans/plastic litter & bring back to put in my recylce containers. I try to find clean & safe alternatives to chemicals for cleaning. Taking my own bag to the store, using re-usable containers for foods rather then convienent pre-packaging, etc. I enjoy where I live, want to keep it that way, hoping everyone will share in the ‘green living’ as a way of life.
If you don’t already belong, join http://www.freecycle.org in your area, where you can post your unwanted items to someone who may want them & visa/versa.
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switch to CFL’s that is the easiest and most simple way 2nd plant a tree in your backyard
won’t ppl be tired of your conservationist dictatings? just quitely set an example yourself and maybe others might start to join in.