Last week Live Earth was an amazing global concert festival, and its over now :(
So now what? Well hopefully everyone learned a tip or two on how we can do better to keep our planet less polluted and GREEN!
I started this page so that people can offer tips - advice, whatever you like - to help others learn what they can do to help cut back on waste, pollution, etc.
My community I live in recycles newspaper, glass, and plastic bottles. Every week when we take out the trash, we also take out a blue recycle bin.
Any other suggestions? :)
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We are seeing an explosion in solar power growth right now. It's here to stay. Very exciting.
Easier said than done for a Californian like me. I miss having a car dreadfully, so I cheat on this one (I can't afford a car nor would I want to pay for parking and battling all the traffic in London).
funny that your post was meant to be a joke - but read this funny guy
Rhubarb leaf tea is good with aphids and whitefly _ anyone like rhubarb pie? For slugs and snails, try beer traps. More expensive but effective are copper bariiers, or even using copper tools, some gardeners say
For some instances, though I don't know which, some recommend steeping garlic, cayenne and few drops washing up liquid diluted well in water.
As to what else we can do (earsz thank you, I need a better and safer weedkiller) I haven't got a car but that isn't virtue in my case, I do walk a lot, take buses and trains, I do buy local produce when I can, also organic stuff, but my carbon footprint is still massive because I live alone in a 3-bedroom house with a large garden! (I don't want to leave it, I admit.) What I should do is compost -- I think cdin's our expert on that -- and use grey water to water the garden and also see if someone else wants part of the garden (a 'they garden, and give me some of the veg' deal!).
Several of my neighbours have allotments, we're a fairly Green street!
Anyway, where I live we have 3 bins. Black is for household non-recycleable rubbish collected fortnightly. Green is for garden rubbish (compostable) and blue is for dry recycleables (paper, card, beer cans), which are collected fortnightly on the alternative weeks to the black ones. We have bottle banks for glass, but no collection of this.
My Greener tip is this: Save eggshells and crush them up. Then sprinkle them around your plants to stop slugs and snails. It's cheaper than beer, is biodegradeable, puts calcium into the soil and does not require poisoning your soil with slug pellets (which are harmful to cats). The slugs and snails stay away 'cos eggshell is sharp.
GET YOUR WRITING UTENSILS OUT - 1-888-5-0ptout
you are probably wondering why? that toll free number will allow you to opt out of getting junk mail in the post!!! so if you are tired of getting junk mail and think its silly for companies to waste the trees opt out of getting it!
:)
there are 2 types of junk mail you get... credit card applications and the normal other junk mail stuff you get (35c off a 1 topping pizza)...so what you do is...with the credit card ones you always get an envelope with a postage paid stamp on it...you fill them with the other crap you get in the post and send it to the credit card companies..imagine the frustration of credit card companies when they have to spend millions every year on first class postage just to open up an envelope and find pizza hut coupons inside!...or how about sending credit card applications from other credit card companies...you can really have fun with this!
http://www.appscout.com/2...een_helps_you_go_gr_1.php
http://www.freecycle.org
http://www.theaircar.com/
Seems like a cool idea. Better than electric for weight, and the low efficiency of battery chargers. Their hybrid seems fairly practical, too.
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)