What environmentally friendly practices do you follow now that you didn't three years ago?

Question

Three years ago, I threw all glass, plastic and paper into the dustbin, now I wouldn't dream of it.

In recent years, we have become more aware of our responsibility towards our planet's future, and I want to know what little changes you have made that is your contribution (I'm loooking for hints and tips, I suppose).

Do you feel differently about your individual responsibility towards being 'green' now than you did three years ago? Has our social conscience changed?

Answer 1

I've cut my electricity and gasoline usage. To save electricity, I sealed my drafty home and installed compact fluorescent bulbs. Last winter I used a portable heater more than the central unit. This summer, I used fans more than the air conditioner.

To save gasoline, I canceled a few driving trips and did some maintenance on my car. That only got me a couple of miles more per gallon, but it's a start.

I'm also working on generating my own power. So far, that just means playing around with windmill blades and small solar cells, but I'm learning what the basic principles. I want to have a zero-energy home in the next few years.

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It's beginning to. People are beginning to realize that there's something odd about burning rocks to run our computers. ;)

JMB

Answer 2

Yes. Regrettably, I used to have an "I don't care" attitude because I wanted "convenience". It was too much trouble to sort out the plastic and aluminum, etc. But, with age sometimes comes wisdom and I see the value in cleaning up the earth. It all starts with your little piece of earth wherever you might be at the time.

Pick up that can or loose paper you see laying there and help-out by putting it where it needs to go! Now, I do it but, it's never too late to start.

Also, there is a huge value in conservation and preservation. "Waste not want not" as the old saying goes.

Answer 3

we've a dishwasher which isn't plumbed in. I continuously wash up by way of hand, yet to make it effectual i purely do it while there is not any longer something sparkling in the abode in any respect, which quite ability i in no way do it because of the fact my spouse finally ends up doing it. this may well be a political situation, because of the fact it ability a woman is doing the housekeeping extremely than a guy. If i did it, i've got confidence it would be friendlier than a dishwasher, yet as this is, it would propose having to handle stuff piled up in all places and in all hazard decomposing foodstuff, flies etc (although this has in no way got here approximately to us), so this is not very friendly to the kin ecosystem even however if this is to the planet. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, dishwashers are supposedly greater ability and water effectual.

Answer 4

Try not to use too much non bio degradable stuff, be careful where i dump my waste, sort the stuff and avoid dumping plastics on exposed earth and places where will be covered by nature and left to poison the natural resources
Use more eco friendly materials, use as little natural resources as possible because even the tiny bit you do not use is something vailable for someone coming after you to pick up for their use.
Don't always be a hog.

Answer 5

All of the things that you just mentioned.
All alumni cans are contributed to the school system and everyone in town donates their cans. The school bin truck hauls them in where they are recycled. The funds collected buys stuff for the school. Glass is in a special bin to be recycled and plastic has a bin. All green stuff goes into a large compose pile with grass clippings and chipper shredder stuff.
It is used in organic gardening that the school uses to teach and to provide food and stuff. We have fruit trees and fruit bushes.
Like cherry hedges and blue berry and black Berry's. Part of the ag class. They show that when you grow it yourself it just tastes better.

Answer 6

In comparrison to three years ago, already being environmentally concious due to living in the driest state in Australia, the only thing i would say that i do differently now is im more conciously aware of what items i put in which bin when throwing away rubbish. Having already had to do most things to with water, most of my life already.......

Answer 7

I stopped dumping my used motor oil in the storm drains, I stopped emptying my RV chemical toilet into the local fishing pond and just last week I stopped watering my lawn with my old antifreeze.

Answer 8

I drive a hybrid car now.

Answer 9

i wash my hands after going to the toilet, which i didnt do 3 years ago.

Answer 10

I walk to and from work everyday.