Tips To Help Save Planet Earth
There are a number of things you may do for our planet. Let me
try and give you some suitable answers to help you out a little.
Fossil Fuels: You can 'Lower' your dependence on fossil fuels. I
don't expect you to go run away and live in a cage or become a 'Tree
Hugger' but you can, for example;
1. switch all your lights from incandescent filament lamps to high
efficiency low energy compact fluorescent lamps.
2. Strip out the gas fire and install a wood burner (Wood is a
carbon neutral source of heating fuel) They can come with a back
boiler so you can feed the excess heat into the heating system to
heat other rooms.
3. Cut back on the travel by (Car / Van / Bus / Train) and try
cycling short routes. If your distances are large for commuting then
why not set up a car sharing scheme with friends so you can all
commute in the same vehicle and save burning excessive fossil fuels
(Petrol and Diesel)
4. Buy your fresh vegetables from local farmers / farm stores,
supermarkets fly / ship fruit and vegetables from all 4 corners of
the globe and add to the excessive burning of fossil fuels. Why not
support your local farmer and purchase his vegetables and fruit that
were grown in the field next door and delivered by hand by the
farmer himself?
5. Try educating others about turning lights off when they leave the
room, why have the radiator in the lavatory on full when you are in
there for 2 minutes 2 times a day? Try and see logic!
6. Swap your CRT (Cathode Ray Tube - The Big Glass fronted TV's) TV
with a LCD flat screen one. They use much less Electricity (Which is
mainly produced by burning fossil fuels Diesel & Gas)
7. Set your Laptop and or desktop PC to hibernate after a set amount
of inactivity so it is not needlessly wasting Electricity.
8. When you go to bed for the night go around the house and switch
off all non essential electrical equipment at the plug, putting TV's
and Microwaves into standby does not shut them down but only puts
them into a lower consuming mode.
9. Grow your own fruit and vegetables, it is so much fun and very
satisfying, plus you get to know you are reducing your carbon
footprint whilst getting free food!
10. Opt for as many bills as possible to be sent to you
electronically, you save them printing them on paper, save the rain
forests and save on the delivery van burning fossil fuels in the
process!
Hope this helps you out a little