Readers Respond: What are you doing to help reduce global warming

Reducing global warming may require global solutions, but it also requires personal action by millions of individuals. What are you doing in your own life to help reduce global warming, and which of those strategies would you recommend to others? Share Your Ideas


Number of animals raised per year

Those who argue against the veg diet to stop global warming have some serious misunderstandings. Worldwide 60 billion (yes, 60 BILLION) animals are killed every year for meat. Those 60 billion animals create a far bigger burden than 6 billion humans. They create 130 times more excrement (which is untreated and poured into our waterways or buried where it pollutes underground water sources), over 50% of greenhouse gases, causes the majority of deforestation in the Amazon, and a whole host of other environmental problems (thousands of miles of poisoned rivers, 400 dead zones in our oceans, uses 70% of all usable water, over 60% of grain, etc). These animals do not happen naturally - they are raised in artificial numbers that would never happen in nature. They are an enormous burden on our planet and its people (while 10000 children die each day of starvation, we feed over 60% of the world's grain to animals. That grain would feed billions more people) Go veg, be green!

—Guest Vegg Mom

Most important thing left off list!

The meat industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined! The Worldwatch Institute recently released a study indicating that the meat industry is repsonsible for 51% (!) of greenhouse gases. Cut your meat consumption to save the planet. Go Veg, Be Green to save our planet!

—Guest Debra

Small steps add up

Reduce, reuse, recycle are the tenets we live by. We: 1. eliminated bottled water; now use reusable stainless steel bottles & own water 2. use CFLs 3. grow many of our own veggies 4. shop local - farmers markets & locally grown meats & eggs 5. Barter for use of items we don't use often 6. Use freecycle/donate to charity to give others an opportunity to use items we no longer need 7. Hang our clothes outside on a clothesline to dry 8. Use reusable shopping bags everywhere we shop 9. Carpool to work with 2 others 10. Replaced our water heater; turned down the temp 11. Replaced our furnace; use a programmable thermostat 12. Replaced our home's windows 13. Planted multi-purpose landscape beds with ornamentals as well as small fruits (e.g, blueberries, strawberries, currants, rhubarb) and room for veggies 14. Use blinds to cut heat loss in winter/heat gain in summer 15. Turn off the lights, PC, TV, etc 16. Taught our kids to be environmentally conscious!

—Guest Green one

Global warming

Use public transport instead of using private vehicles.

—Guest Sandy

Getting Involved

Get involved in a community activity (one that educates others about reducing energy or doing Green Habitat For Humanity or Green the Ghetto-type projects) will not only get you out of the house and not using power while there, but you'll bring yourself closer to your community and create a sense of cooperative involvement; "we're all in this together" or "I am my brother's keeper". Perhaps most important, you'll feel better about yourself as will the people you help who in turn can be persuaded to serve their community in the same way.

—Guest Andy

Advocacy

SETTING UP AN ADVOCACY TO EDUCATE AND INFORM MY COMMUNITY PROTECT AND CONSERVE THE ENVIRONMENT.PPL.ATTITUDE HAVE TO CHANGE. Setting up an advocacy to educate and inform my community, protect and conserve the environment. People's attitudes have to change.

—Guest omang dave

zizi

I'll plant trees and encourage other to do so. It's so relaxing, enjoying fresh air under a bit tree you planted. It's more refreshing than an air-conditioned house and you'll be saving the environment too.

—Guest zizi

Save Mother Earth

We all should make resolution on this new year to plant at least 5 plants, save electricity, walk instead of using vehicles--it will make us healthy too. Make others aware of Global Warming. We also should discuss this in our offices and work places so that more and more people will join the mission to save Mother Earth. It is our duty to save earth because in this way we will gift a safe, beautiful and clean place to live in to our next generation. It is very important and urgent issue.

—Guest Rahul

Opinion

The best change is to try and teach our next generation of kids to be environmentally friendly and energy efficient. We have to stop all forms of mainstream utilization of fossil fuels. And to most who believe their one small appliance doesn't do much damage, they are wrong. You are a contributing factor that is capable of producing several tons of Carbon Dioxide every year, how much you expel depends on your lifestyle. The problem is the Earth has reached it's carrying capacity for the human population. We are slowly taking over and have already impacted EVERY piece of wildlife known to man, either directly or indirectly through pollution, farming, Logging, habitat fragmentation, construction, and hunting/poaching. We just all need to play our part to help the right people (who have the power to change things) understand the value and ecological importance of the factors nature contributes to us.

—Guest Freeman

global warming

I switch off all the lights whenever I am not at home.

—Guest taj

Terrace farming

When hills/mountains are not in use,a round curvy slope should be formed & plants should be grown there.

—Guest honey

reduce

we should less used electrical things that can give affect to atmosphere layer

—nur79

save electricity

I always switch off the electric appliance which are not being used. Eg., not leaving the TV on stand-by mode.

—Guest kanika

Global Warmings

1.Started Gardening 2.Bathing in cold water rather than using warm water 3.Switching of the PC and Lights when not in Use 4.Avoided using Plastic Bags and Plastic materials 5.Replaced CFL Bulbs with Normal Tube lights

—Guest Shanmuga Kumar

heat your house

you can use geo-thermal energy to heat your house rather than use oil, which releases harmful gases in the environment.

—Guest rinku

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