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- wazungu, on 05/07/2008, -5/+44They forget the most important one. CONSUME LESS.
- Lapdog1123, on 05/07/2008, -3/+2451.) Legalize Hemp....
- SpaceDreamer, on 05/07/2008, -4/+24"fly wit an e-ticket"
Yeah, it's clearly the ticket that makes flying harmful to the environment... - TheMachine1, on 05/07/2008, -2/+2017. SHOWER WITH YOUR PARTNER
So us loners are destroying the planet now? - SPThom, on 05/07/2008, -0/+14I gotta agree with BrewBeau. I love chicken, and hamburger, and hot dogs and all the "bad" stuff that PETA would hate me for. But my wife and I tried vegetarian last week on a whim... we wound up spending 30% less on groceries and didn't miss the meat one bit. I don't know about the environment, but it's definitely a great way to save money.
- BrewBeau, on 05/07/2008, -0/+14First of all, I eat meat. However, the resources it takes to get animals to the point of being slaughtered is staggering, especially in the high density industrial animal farms. The article suggest going veggie once a week, but once a day is pretty easy. Nobody needs half a pound of meat at every meal. Maybe we should think about slaughtering those fatties.
- thetzfreak, on 05/07/2008, -4/+16This is actually quite a nice list of things to look out for. Saying "move to another 3rd world hellhole" is simply being ignorant. You don't have to do every single thing listed, but start with a couple and move up a bit. You'll feel good about yourself.
- J3553, on 05/07/2008, -5/+17"the planet's fine... the people are *****"
-carlin - Laminarcissus, on 05/07/2008, -0/+11Wait, they put in "use matches over lighters" but not "use recycled home paper products?"
I became self-conscious about how many paper towels I was using, so in addition to cutting down I also looked into which brands were better than others. Surprisingly, you don't need to move to 7th Generation or other specific green brands to do things better.
If you're using Kleenex, or Charmin, or Viva or Bounty paper towels, they're *cutting down trees* to feed your habit. They also use non-environmentally-friendly bleaching processes.
But Marcal, for example, is 100% recycled, and of 60% of that is post-consumer.
Here's a link to a chart of home paper products brands and their percent of recycled material:
http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/gtissue.asp - rhabd0mancer, on 05/07/2008, -5/+15#1: Don't have children.
- R0l0, on 05/07/2008, -3/+13Pour oil on a duck.
- mywhitenoise, on 05/07/2008, -2/+11Are you serious? The rest of the world is having a water crisis (clean, drinking water).
- sleepyjjk, on 05/07/2008, -4/+13Wow, what's with all the negative comments?
Anyway, for the most part, that's a great list. Maybe there should be a campaign with ads like these all over, then people will be constantly be reminded to do their small part to help the world.
I think we all need a little reminding sometimes to do our part, because we're already so used to our consumptive lifestyle. - MookiBlaylock, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7Getting clean water is not a small task for even the US.
- aguita, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7I don't know what the hell they're talking about. When I shower with my wife, it isn't exactly a short shower. In fact, we usually stop showering when the water is too damned cold. ;)
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -1/+7How to bathe: Fill the bathtub with water--about 2" deep. Get naked and get in the tub. Take your bath. Get out. Drain tub.
How to shower: Do not turn on water before you get in the shower. Get naked and get in first. Turn on the water. Get completely wet. Turn off water. Soap/shampoo up from head to toe. Turn water back on. Rinse off. Turn off water. Get out of shower.
And no, this isn't how I bathe on a daily basis. This is how my grandparents did it (and how we had to do it when we visited them). Survivors of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. They conserved and recycled EVERYTHING. - MookiBlaylock, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5The planet would live on with out us for sure.
- Zomar, on 05/08/2008, -1/+6You are forgetting that animals need to eat. It's commonly said that it takes 16 pounds of grain to make one pound of beef. All of that grain requires resources. Raising animals is inefficient. We could get much better nutrition in the form of plants out of the resources it takes to make that 16 pounds of grain, ship it around the world, ship the animal to slaughter, ship the meat with its packaging to the grocery store, etc etc. If you look into it a little bit you'll find that animal agriculture is one of the leading causes of environmental degradation and drivers of climate change.
- Zomar, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5Very true. A child born in a country such as the USA has the global impact of like a million kids in a less "developed" country. There are so many children out there in need of good homes, I am a strong supporter of adoption as an alternative.
- Namelessthinker, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5I can't see how a ticket costs ten dollars to print too. Thats *****.
- spect3r, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5eat ***** rocks people!
- MookiBlaylock, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5definitely shower with your partner
- BIOHazard87, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5True, a lot of things can be made a lot more efficiently if hemp was allowed to be used.
- krnldmp, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Most modern ovens will get up to 425F in five minutes. The walls are thin fiberglass insulated porcelain or stainless steel and including the racks there is very little thermal mass to bring up to temperature. Depending on what you put in there the normal heating cycle times will only be a couple minutes shorter. It makes no sense to "preheat" in the classic sense of the idea, unless you have some kind of prehistoric stone thing going on in your kitchen.
- BrewBeau, on 05/07/2008, -0/+5Good one. Cotton is terrible for the soil and an inferior fiber to hemp.
- SuicideMouse, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Want something to feel good about? Get this, if the article is correct, then in one year of everyone in the U.S. recycling JUST Sunday's paper we save 26 Million trees that year.
Going on the above knowledge and assuming the paper is the same size for everyday of the week if everyone in the U.S. recycled every paper they got, in one year you would all save 182 Million trees...
This is something I never understood. Why don't we massively cut back on making newspapers? Almost everyone who gets them (At least in my area) has the internet, just cancel your subscription and read the new online, what's wrong with you? Your saving the earth AND you can easily get multiple points of view as your not biased to one source. - mywhitenoise, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4download, and then burn to a DVD then, it's the packaging of the software that's bad.
- regeya, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Well, cutting down on resource use, which has the usual side benefit of being cheaper for you. You have a problem with saving money?
- mywhitenoise, on 05/07/2008, -2/+6Yeah, let's continue to be wasteful instead! Besides it being absolutely no good for the environment, it'll also put a hole in out pockets!
Wave that flag proudly brother. If you don't like over consuming, then you can GEEET OUT! - CaptainCool53, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Adopt.
- tp123, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4How about buying a 300 MPG Car? Aptera released it's plugin hybrid in October for only $29,000. Check it: http://www.apteraforum.com
- SuicideMouse, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Note: The above comment is why people and many other animals are *****, "Nuclear *****' Weapons".
- kurtu5, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3Create a environment section on digg that doesn't put articles in the damn science section.
- Animal, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3"You'll feel good about yourself."
That's probably the problem is that people just want to feel good so they slap some ribbon stickers on their car and get that feeling.
***** feeling good about it. If we want 'green' to be what people choose it needs to be forced on them by being cheaper. - BrewBeau, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3Nope. It seems like it, but think how long it would take to fill a bathtub with your shower head.
- CiXeL, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3these only work in blue states. you get heckled for this stuff in red states =/
or your coworkers will brag theyre wasting enough to compensate for you saving the planet. - Zomar, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3help the earth from becoming over polluted and stripped of natural resources.
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3I hate people wasting electrons
- BrewBeau, on 05/07/2008, -1/+4My question is, what kind of non-digital age fossil still gets printed tickets in the first place?
- CaptainCool53, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3That's disgusting.
- regeya, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3What part of "associated packaging" was difficult to understand?
- URnotheonly1, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4HYBRIDS ARE MAKING FUEL GO HIGHER! You think the oil company is going to lose money because you cut capacity? Na, the less you use the more they will raise prices.
Just today, fuel inventories are WAY UP, AND GAS SHOT UP. Oil company is not going to let you cut use for free. - biocandy, on 05/08/2008, -0/+310. USE ONE LESS PAPER NAPKIN
... and then there's an image of fast-food?! Why not stop eat freaking fast-food, then you save all the garbage you get with the food. - BestJaxx, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3In a way I agree because he mentioned that he would elect Al Gore to his cabinet, however this just feels like more annoying Obama spam, so consider yourself burried.
- opmike, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Can we then ***** bricks?
- regeya, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2Or cut down on your paper use. Handkerchiefs over tissues, washcloths and old rags over paper towels, and recycled paper towels when necessary.
Spent a lot of time at my Grandma's house as a kid; seem to remember the Kleenex was for guests with the sniffles. No paper towels...heck, no running water. She lived through the Depression, so in many ways she had all the neotreehuggers beat. I wonder how many of the newly ecologically conscious have never taken a crap anywhere other than a toilet? - theandy1, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2I try to recycle as much as I can, but I don't think hippies are doing a good job of encouraging people to do it. I had a massive amount of beer bottles, beer cans, soda cans, and the cardboard/paperboard used to package them. I forgot to put out the recycle bin a few weeks in a row and eventually it stockpiled and besides that for some reason I can't even recycle the paperboard. So I decided to keep stockpiling and eventually make a trip to the recycle center. Now I wasn't doing this to make a few bucks by any means (haha just made me think of the homeless James Bond video), but I do remember when you'd actually get a few dollars to recycle. Instead what I got was a self serve area with 10 different bins which were all very picky about what to put inside of them. Ok yeah as annoying as it was to do this I could understand the purpose easily enough even if paperboard and cardboard had to go in different places. The problem was almost all of the bins were too full and I ended up not being able to recycle some of this *****. I plan on continuing to recycle cans and bottles since my trash service will pick them up, but I know a lot of people who wouldn't bother recycling again after the hassle I had at the plant.
- BIOHazard87, on 05/08/2008, -0/+2***** nice, I bet they're strong :)
- MookiBlaylock, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Thing is this information is useful to rehash.
- jinsundo, on 05/07/2008, -0/+2Well, it seems to me that those who prefer to help the planet in 50 ways are simply too lazy to educate themselves as to how and why the state of the planet is as it is. It's easier to "change the world" then to change oneself.
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