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Time Magazine Vodcast

This video involves Time Magazines top 100 executive winners in the environmental and energy fields.

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,42098871001_1926380,00.html

YOUTUBE VIDEO 5 Easy Steps For Going Green! (Skinny Mr. Robinson's Avatar!)

Carbon Footprints

The first step to go green is to understand your carbon footprint. Whether it's for your workplace or for you, it is important to understand how much Carbon Dioxide you are generating per year so you know what to focus on. It is very difficult to understand the impact of our reduction if we don't measure our starting point.  The term Carbon Footprint is a combination of two terms. First, Carbon Dioxide is the by-product of emissions from our vehicles, from heating our workplaces and homes, and from other activities in our daily lives. It is the leading greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. The term Footprint refers to the impact we are having on the Earth. If the whole world lived like Americans and Canadians, we would need seven Earth-size planets to sustain our way of living... yes, seven. By combining Carbon Dioxide with the term Footprint, we have a Carbon Footprint. This is the impact we are having on the world specific to the amount of Carbon Dioxide we are responsible for creating. Americans and Canadians pollute more per capita than most countries in the world. You can either calculate your carbon footprint using a calculator (e.g., Zero footprint) or use a general profile of a typical carbon footprint as illustrated by the inverted pyramid above.

PHOTO SHARING Transportation Reduction

How does Transportation contribute to my Carbon Footprint and Climate Change?
While most of us use transportation in our daily lives, few of us think about the impact it has on the environment. Walking and cycling are certainly green means of transportation, but what about cars, trains, planes, and buses?
The core of the issue is how these methods of transportation are fueled. The most dominant fuel source over the past century has been oil, which is the raw material for producing gasoline and diesel fuel. Once the fuel is burned, it cannot be used again. This may seem obvious, but the point is that oil is a non-renewable resource. Once it is used, it cannot be used again. In comparison, electricity that is produced from a wind turbine or solar panel is a renewable resource because the energy source is not consumed - it is readily available to be used again and again.
So how do we use this knowledge to go green? Consider the pollution generated from your transportation and reduce it or eliminate it. Here are a few high polluting means of transportation:

• Air Travel
• Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs)
• Cars with big block engines

Reducing the transportation we use, and using the most fuel efficient vehicles such as a Toyota Prius can significantly reduce our impact on the environment.

Here are some photos to help generate ideas on how to get around! Transportation Photos

The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily!

I like this quote. It is an old Chinese saying expressing what we mean when we say someone’s trash is someone else’s treasure. That many of us think that this is true is very visible when we look at numbers of charity shops, scrap shops, car boot sales, swap shops, free cycle networks etc, etc out there. Turning trash to treasure is true recycling or even better up cycling which describes a process of converting waste or unwanted materials into new materials or products of a better quality or a higher environmental value. If we manage to look beyond the current purpose of a product or thing and see its next lives hidden inside, we turn trash to treasure. The beauty about this is that once you started it you won’t be able to stop. You see it happening all around you. You stop being a consumer who is told by the consumer industry what to buy and when to buy it. Turing trash to treasure you will use less resource, you will create less waste, you will live a more sustainable life and it feels good.

Trash to Treasure

You too can turn your own trash to treasure by creative recycling and start using, wearing, enjoying your old and unwanted things, again. There is a universe out there with millions of ways of turning trash to treasure. The conversion from trash to treasure does not need to look homemade or like a school’s project. Once I had started creative recycling I looked at all my stuff and thought what will you be in your next life. I found many many great ways of turning my trash to treasure.


Examples:

Akron Recycling Center Office

                                  The Summit/Akron Solid Waste Management Authority

12 East Exchange Street; Third Floor

Akron, Ohio 44308

Phone: 330.374.0383

Fax: 330.374.1819

                                                                       Office Hours

Our office is open Monday through Friday

8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

RSS FEEDS

What is an RSS feed? An RSS feed is a really simple syndication. They are used for currently updated works. You can subscribe to most RSS feeds for free. The good thing about RSS feeds is that you only receive the information requested instead of the whole content of the page.

A very good website that has an RSS feed connected to it is listed below. It is free to subscribe to this websites feed and it is also very interesting.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/rss-feeds

FACEBOOK LINK

This link will take you to a very awesome facebook page with lots of information on how to become a greener person and leave a smaller carbon footprint of yourself on Earth!

https://www.facebook.com/#!/puregogreen?fref=ts

Bookmark of further resources

Click on this link to find more websites about being green, and how to save our planet.


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