Ten Things You Can Do To Stop Global Warming!!! ( I Hope We All Can Do This)

1) Drive Smart!
A well-tuned car with properly inflated tires burns less gasoline—cutting pollution and saving you money at the pump. If you have two cars, drive the one with better gas mileage whenever possible. Better yet, skip the drive and take public transit, walk, or bicycle when you can.

2) Buy Local and Organic
Did you know the average American meal travels more than 1,500 miles from the farm to your plate? Think of all the energy wasted and pollution added to the atmosphere—not to mention all the pesticides and chemicals used to grow most produce! So go to your local organic farmer to get your fruits and veggies.

3) Support clean, renewable energy.
Renewable energy solutions, such as wind and solar power, can reduce our reliance on coal-burning power plants, the largest source of global warming pollution in the United States. Call your local utility and sign up for renewable energy. If they don't offer it, ask them why not?

Also, support a national renewable electricity standard (RES). The Energy Bill signed in 2007 lacked key components that address our energy security and global warming emissions: a renewable electricity standard of 15 percent by 2020 and a tax package that will provide investment incentives for clean energy alternatives. Use our action center to urge your members of congress to support the renewable electricity standard and tax package!

4) Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.
Especially those that burn the longest each day. Compact fluorescents produce the same amount of light as normal bulbs, but use about a quarter of the electricity and last ten times as long. Each switch you make helps clean the air today, curb global warming, and save you money on your electricity bill.

5) Saving energy at home is good for the environment and for your wallet.
Start with caulking and weather-stripping on doorways and windows. Then adjust your thermostat and start saving. For each degree you lower your thermostat in the winter, you can cut your energy bills by three percent. Finally, ask your utility company to do a free energy audit of your home to show you how to save even more money.

6) Become a smart water consumer.
Install low-flow showerheads and faucets and you'll use half the water without decreasing performance. Then turn your hot water heater down to 120°F and see hot-water costs go down by as much as 50 percent.

7) Buy energy-efficient electronics and appliances.
Replacing an old refrigerator or an air conditioner with an energy-efficient model will save you money on your electricity bill and cut global warming pollution. Look for the Energy Star label on new appliances or visit their website at www.energystar.gov to find the most energy-efficient products.

8) Plant a Tree, protect a forest.
Protecting forests is a big step on the road to curbing global warming. Trees "breathe in" carbon dioxide, but slash-and-burn farming practices, intensive livestock production, and logging have destroyed 90 percent of the native forests in the United States. And you can take action in your own backyard—planting shade trees around your house will absorb CO2, and slash your summer air-conditioning bills.

9) Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
Producing new paper, glass, and metal products from recycled materials saves 70 to 90 percent of the energy and pollution, including CO2, that would result if the product came from virgin materials. Recycling a stack of newspapers only four feet high will save a good-sized tree. Please... buy recycled products!

10) Mount a local campaign against global warming.
Educate your community about how it can cut global warming pollution. Support measures at the national, state, and local level that:
a) Make automobiles go further on a gallon of gas;
b) Accelerate the use of clean, renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind;
c) Increase energy efficiency and conservation; and
d) Preserve forests around the world.
(source:http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/tenthings/)


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Exterminate 93% of the worlds population.

Benefits:
93% Reduction in pollution and carbon emissions.

true in some way

Pff. People only get behind global warming now because its been recognised and becoming a 'fad' among the younger generation. I don't think anyone really cares about helping to clean up the planet, they just talk about it.

I'm comfortable with flicking smoke butts around, keeping the air-conditioner at full during the Summer months and burning up electricity at fast rates. I'm not stopping it just because some eco greenies have nothing better to do than complain about every small thing.

yeah... global warming is total bullshit... its gonna happen and there is nothing we can do to stop it.just look at the earth's history... right now we are in a period between ice ages. the earth gets hot then it gets cold then it gets hot again then it gets cold again. dont get me wrong... im all in favor of taking care of the earth but this is ridiculous. if we actually think we can do something to stop it... we are sadly, sadly mistaken.

yes I agree with you, Global warming is gonna happen, and you witnessed right,we are in middle of ice age.
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But still somewhere we can do something , our small change can save some life here. if global warming is gonna happen, then let it happen, but due to our some change it can be less destruction to earth and for us too.
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Andrew Davey is 13 years old boy who has made a search engine web site that can save the energy. This idea was found after knowing that white screen need 74 W n black screen just need 59W. So start to access EcoSmartSearch.com friends!

I agree with Lief and numba.............

Actually **puts on his lecturers jacket** technically we're still in an ice age. An ice age is any time when there is ice at the poles. So for the planet to warm up is not only natural, but the plants average temperature over the last 3 billion years (at least) has been warmer than it is now. What is referred to as the ice age was the last period of major glaciation, the last of many period of this. The Earth's climate is a semi-stable dynamic process, it is always changing, and cycles that we see now have only been like that for a fraction of the Earth's life.

It is a good idea to cut down on pollution simply because most pollution comes from fossil fuels which will run out sooner or later, but to bzwz* and moan about climate change is pointless, we either need to learn to live with it or look for a way to leave the planet en masse.

**end of lecture**