Go Green, Save Green

There are many programs but too little enthusiasm. ”Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic,paper, glass and metal into those bins”(“How Do You Encourage Recycling”). The world has enough programs but it need more people. People need to think about how recycling helps everything and everyone around them. ”They asked people to think more abstractly about why recycling contributed to the community, air, land, and water resources “(“How Do You Encourage Recycling”). When people recycle they need to remember why they are doing this and what it helps. The world needs to look at what it can gain or lose when recycling and not recycling. ”Marketing professor Kate White of University of British Columbia shared studies that looked at two kinds of messages:those that highlight the negative consequences of not recycling,loss framed message, versus those that emphasize the positive consequences of recycling,gain framed message.”(“How Do You Encourage Recycling”). These messages will address what people can gain and lose. Motivating people to recycle could make a huge change in land pollution even solve the problem with

One way that a simple person could start to help is by buying food locally. This would cause less pollution from factories and greenhouse gases from products drove or flown in. Furthermore, pay the bills online to help conserve trees. This could save 18.5 million trees every year. Along with this it could remove 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide/ other gases while getting rid of 1.7 billion pounds of solid waste. Lastly, a person could go about adjusting the thermostat a degree lower than what the temperature is outside in the winter and adjusting it a degree higher in the summer to save 10 percent on energy

Author Derrick Jensen states in “Forget shorter showers,” that simple living will not solve the environmental problem. First, the water, energy, and waste used by industries and agriculture are far greater than the amount used by families. Next, switching to more green technology can still cause more damage than it is intended too. Finally, placing the blame on simple living people is not where the actual problem lies. Orion contributor Derrick Jensen argues, “Municipal waste accounts for only 3% of the total waste production in the united states” (341).

Americans, as a whole, do not care about the environment anymore. When we watch the news or simply talk about our day, there are always more pressing topics that come up. However, as a nation, the threat of a failing environment seems to be forgotten because the effects are not as obvious as other threats. Bill McKibben’s “Waste Not, Want Not” discusses how much time, money, resources, and people America has actually wasted and how little effort has been made to try to change. McKibben causes readers to think it is too late to save the environment from our wastefulness because we put our efforts into systems that do not help the environment, spend more money and resources than necessary, and refuse to acknowledge how much were wasting.

The amount of waste that’s produced by the lack of concern for the environment is huge. We as Americans don’t see it as a total problem because we’re doing different things that we don’t pay attention to. We as people need to learn the concept of not wasting anything to harm the people and other things around us.

We can watch what we purchase and monitor our home storage better. I believe by moving slow every day and reducing food will reach a max level of not wasting anymore and we often buy more than we need and allow the excess to go to waste. Every time we go to the store we should be more careful on what to buy and be thank full of what we have. For example, making a shopping list is the best way to reduce food waste. Planning ahead and storing food properly we can reduce the amount of food we waste. Not only that, but saving food is saving money.

Canadian citizens are witnessing the devastating effects of climate change on our world. These major impacts are a result of human behavior and will get worse without any actions taken. Most of how Canadian’s produce greenhouse gas emissions is through Home energy, food/shopping, and cars/transport as this strategy of living can cause polar ice caps to melt in the northern and southern hemisphere causing habitat loss, sea levels rising/decreasing, temperature change, and El Niño. This global warming issue has taken a huge effect in Canada as finding alternative ways to reduce consumption of transportation, clothing, food, and shopping is required.

What does the earth mean to the human race, what do we owe to the world? The food crisis in America is an even balance of 1 billion hungry and 1 billion obese. This means somewhere along the lines we something is going very wrong. We are being mislead and told that we are going green. Is America really going green? Or is it being fed propaganda to hide the true damage of the process of making are organic so-called natural products?

Throughout world history, people have come up with brilliant new ideas to make life easier, and as time goes on, research, making food, and getting news, has all become instantaneous. It now only takes the push of a button to cook a thanksgiving meal or the click of a remote to find out what’s happening across the world. These things are often taken for granted, and rarely does someone stop and say: “I wonder what turning on this extra lamp does to the environment?” This statement sounds insignificant when there are people starving in other countries and people are training for the army. Yet, being concerned about the environment is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, the environment should be one of the biggest concerns among people, as

Many Americans do not realize the full extent of how much we negatively affect the environment. There has been quite a bit of research and studies conducted on how to become more environmentally friendly; however, these are simply ideas and without action taken from citizens it is all worthless. It is quite exhilarating to have a goal and then have that goal be achieved; you get to see all your hard work be paid off. Many goals are inspired from one thing or another. The documentary No Impact Man makes you feel motivated to take a stand and help the environment. In the documentary, it is awesome to see how hard this family worked through the year to make a change and aid the environment. After calculating my carbon emissions, finding out how

Getting CFL bulbs can save you over $40 a year rather than keeping your regular incandescent lights. Purchasing water conserving showerheads and toilets can also help not only by cutting emissions, but it will save you money too! When building or purchasing a house, be sure that the insulation in it isn't bad. It needs to be good and reliable. This saves on energy and your money as well. Widows are important too. These are just a few out of the hundreds of ways that you can help. So when people think that they can't help, or have no authority when it comes to reducing the amount of carbon dioxide you use, each person can help. If every person took this serious and pulled their share, maybe the carbon dioxide emissions wouldn't be as high and maybe our oceans wouldn't have to suffer.

By doing a few of these things you are helping to save the environment. You are helping to save water and use less energy that is fuelled by nonrenewable sources that is destroying the earth. The less energy used the more there will be in

With fossil fuels powering 85% of energy in the United States and the ignorance towards the negative impacts of burning them, dependency on these harmful resources have skyrocketed and will continue to. In 2006, around 7% of America’s gross domestic product was spent on fossil fuels which is greater than what was spent on education and the military (1). The fight to teach the public to be less dependent on fossil fuels begins with decreasing usage. Decreasing energy consumption can be as simple as turning technology off when not in use, ensuring the home is efficient, and changing light bulbs to fluorescent ones. These simple changes can be taught to everyone not just save them money, but also to make sure that future generations reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the future. In addition individuals in a community can also band together to encourage local lawmakers to make areas more people friendly and use less cars (2).

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” In this report, I will outlay four different methods by which I can reduce my ecological footprint. The point could certainly be argued that one person will never make a difference, that my footprint is just too insignificant to worry about. However, just as each beach is made up of single, seemingly insignificant grains of sand, this world is made up of billions of “single” people. Working all together, a giant leap will be achieved. I will explain how changing my habits in the ways that I charge my electronics, shop, deal with waste and drive will decrease my ecological footprint.

Per Helfand, Bereck, and Maull, (1970), “Physically, pollution occurs because it is virtually impossible to have a production process that involves no water; economically, pollution occurs because polluting is less expensive than operating cleanly” p. (19). Now what implications does this have on the environment. As individuals, we got use to the luxuries of a car or factories that make our goods. Now what if soon enough we stop having clean air because we would rather have our goods. Our egotistical ways will only lead us to what can possibly be our death. In a survey made in Washington half or Americans say they recycle 75% or more recyclable items. And only 8% say they recycle all recyclables. If we were to check the homes of the people