What are you currently doing in your daily life to help stop Global Warming? Are you educating others?
I am curious what every day people are doing, and how many people are really serious about this big issue.
Are you educating others around you about simple things they can do.
Please include the state you live in.
July 16th, 2010 at 11:10 am
yes, I spread the healthy word to everyone all the time. some people look at me like I’m nuts, well the earth thinks their nuts
July 16th, 2010 at 11:47 am
I don’t eat anymore gassy vegitables
July 16th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Here is my education for Answer users.
Did you know that scientists predict the North Pole will be ICE FREE by the year 2040! THATS 30 YEARS! (This has never happened in the past million years!)
July 16th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
I try to recycle as much as I can.
I use a bike on a regular basis. (Though if I didn’t live where I do now, I’d probably use a bike 100% of the time.)
And in doing just those few things, I’m hoping my daughter learns from it and tries to do a little more in the future.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
The globe is getting warmer but man has little to do with it. The earth’s temperature has been fluctuating since there was an earth. Why do some people now insist on blaming man for it?
July 16th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Nothing. Global Warming (TM) is a farce. It’s a tool used by communist politicians who eventually want to confiscate private property.
I’m educating others by pointing out similar climate change phenomena on Mars, where there are no SUVs or Republicans.
July 16th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I am in NY, NY and I am 26
I have been aware of environmental issues since I was in the 4th grade. My teacher at the time had students pick 1 of 4 environmental issues to do a report on. Ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, air/water pollution, and acid rain. I chose ozone layer depletion because it scared me the most. Ever since then I checked the aerosol cans I used to make sure they were CFC free. I told my Mom about it, but didn’t do much more than that. Over the years, I heard the warnings about global warming but nobody in government made it public that it was a real threat.
Right now, in addition to saving energy directly by using energy efficient bulbs, appliances, taking mass transit, and recycling, I have started to research how the companies and brands that I buy from are also doing their part to reduce emissions. For example, I do a lot of my shopping at Pathmark, which has a green initiative program. I also want to investigate how the stores themselves are becomming green. In the building I work in, I notice that many people do not recycle, almost all of them leave lights on when not in use, and they use paper cups, plates, and utensils like water. I try to tell people jokingly to not do these things, but it seems like they already know, but don’t take action. This is why I believe that if we had a good environmental leader like Al Gore in power, people will start to take action more. People understand that they should not be wasteful, but a lot of them feel that it doesn’t start with them.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
I keep the refrigerator door open for 6 hours a day.
I live in Jordan.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
What I am doing is to continually get on my soap box and try and educate those that have fallen for the Farce being perpetuated by the Democrats, Communists, Marxists, Socialists, Enviro Whackos, etc (Basically the Democratic Party).
Here is a little secret: the earth cools and warms on its OWN. shhhhh!!!! don’t let the idiots I mentioned above know this, or they’ll just dream up some other farce, like they did 30 years ago with GLOBAL COOLING and the coming Ice Age.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I live in Trinidad, in the Caribbean. I have changed all the light bulbs in my house to fluorescent, turn off everything and unplug anything we are not using. I run fans more than air conditioners. Turned down the water heater temp., only do really large loads of laundry at a time. I still don’t feel that it’s enough though, to make up for the stupid, stupid people (many of them on Y!A) who are doing absolutely nothing and even worse, assuming that the threat isn’t even real. how ignorant can you be? this country is damaging the environment too, with big new buildings going up at a rate and the gov’t trying to build smelter plants here. all that in addition to the fact that Trinidad is a huge contributor to methane being dumped into the air due to processing of natural gas and oil. I try to educate, but some people just don’t want to be educated. and they are usually the same ones who have 8 or 10 kids that will have to spend their adult lives cleaning up our mess long after we are gone.
July 16th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I’ve also been environmentally aware since the 4th grade, but that was 37 years ago, (probably when Al Gore was still in College or before),and I’ve not seen much progress being made until very recently, if at all). That was in Ohio, now I’m in Indiana. Neither state is doing anything short of moron toward solving anything environmental in nature.
Indiana still hasn’t any deposit on bottles or cans. They think it is unpatriotic to give people the chance to collect them for pocket money. Beats me why they don’t, even Ohio does that.
Very frustrating, but, until we can pool our resources and try, nothing can be be done unless we change some laws, and I mean everything down to Hemp and drug laws, and the birthright for everyone to have their own solar heaters, and greenhouses, and vote out politicians who aren’t doing their jobs to get us there..
July 16th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Lots of simple and inexpensive things.., which actually save money too like,
Larger loads of laundry in cold water
Air Dry many things on a clothes line
recycle and buy recycled
energy efficient appliances and lighting
fuel saver device on my vehicles
carpool
buy local produce
follow watering guidelines for my area ( NV)
use house fans and less air conditioner
stop using disposable things
supporting negative population growth
and others.
It’s easy to be greener , and it makes sense. I’m just wondering if anyone of the “doubters” out there will fall on their swords of stupidity ( or lazziness) in 40 years when there is not enough resources to feed and shelter the rest of us ? I mean it’s only fair , when all the warnings become reality and you did nothing but expedite an avoidable consequence of your greed ( or lazziness and stupidity).
July 16th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
simple…i have taken ms. crow’s suggestion to use one sheet of toilet paper when i wipe. i have skipped the paper all together!!! i just use my left hand. that way i can still scratch my nose with my right. genious, eh?
yippie-ye’ha-yippei-wha-hoo-ye-ha we’re all gonna’ die
July 16th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I live in Texas, and I –
1. Take my own shopping bags to the store. (you can actually fit way more into a sturdy tote bag than a plastic or paper bag)
2. Replacing all of my regular lightbulbs with florescent or halogen.
3. Public transportation is not it’s best here, but I do try to fit all of my errands into one trip.
4. I am embarrassed to admit that this started, because our electric bill has been WAY WAY too high. (We have TXU – they recently got in a lot of trouble – for those of you who do not live in TX and have not heard, and they are being bought by another company.) So we do not run any thing unless we need it. Our house has lots of windows, so lights are supposed to stay off in the day. At night, they are used minimally. Thanks to changes at TXU and the changes that we have made, our bill was significantly lower.
5. I avoid using pesticides on my lawn. A few weeds are not the end of the world.
6. I recycle like fiend! We have a separate dumpster for recycling that is picked up on our trash day, and we don’t have to separate anything, so it is really easy. My three year old daughter even knows what goes in the recycling.
7. We wash all of our clothes in cold water.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I am in NY.
1. I have solar panels, which produce 100% of electricity plus surplus which gets sold to local utility – I plan to purchase electric car to utilize excess capacity when Tesla comes out with four door sedan in 2008.
2. I have CFLs and LED lights throughout the house.
3. Wash all my clothes in cold water and hang dry in the sun.
4. Take navy showers
5. Minimum use of automobile. I walk almost everywhere in town and take public transportation to work. I fill up the car once a month.
6. I do not use any store bought fertilizers for the lawn and water lawns sparingly, as needed.
7. Minimize waste by minimizing on packaged food which means more fruits and veggies. Also cut down on meat consumption, especially beef, which require large land mass and lot of pollution (methane).
July 16th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
What can you do, turn off the SUN
Meteorologist Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at University of Wisconsin (now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, was pivotal in promoting the coming ice age scare of the 1970’s ( See Time Magazine’s 1974 article “Another Ice Age” citing Bryson: & see Newsweek’s 1975 article “The Cooling World” citing Bryson) has now converted into a leading global warming skeptic. In February 8, 2007 Bryson dismissed what he terms “sky is falling” man-made global warming fears. Bryson, was on the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world. “Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?”
Environmental geochemist Dr. Jan Veizer, professor emeritus of University of Ottawa, converted from believer to skeptic after conducting scientific studies of climate history. “I simply accepted the (global warming) theory as given,” Veizer wrote on April 30, 2007 about predictions that increasing C02 in the atmosphere was leading to a climate catastrophe. “The final conversion came when I realized that the solar/cosmic ray connection gave far more consistent picture with climate, over many time scales, than did the CO2 scenario,” Veizer wrote. “It was the results of my work on past records, on geological time scales, that led me to realize the discrepancies with empirical observations. Trying to understand the background issues of modeling led to realization of the assumptions and uncertainties involved,” Veizer explained. “The past record strongly favors the solar/cosmic alternative as the principal climate driver,”
July 16th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
I tell everybody to start building their own Ark since that is as much a waste of time as worrying about global warming.
July 16th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Replacing llights with hallegen lightbulbs .
July 16th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I save energy by turning off the TV whenever Al Gore is on.