what can I do to be more 'green'?

Question

I already recycle and don't drive a car.

Answer 1

1. travel less by plane
2. insulate your home
3. Consumption habits are probably responsible for more pollution than anything else. Think about it: even buying bananas involves clearing of the land for the tree; use of pesticides on the fruit; transportation of the fruit; packaging of the bunch; and transport to the supermarket. That's a whole lot of pollution, and that's just for food, let alone those little luxuries like a new pair of shoes!
To be greener, you can, then: eat locally produced organic food, and basically buy less stuff, though personally, as a bit of a clothes horse myself, I've found a wealth of gorgeous second hand wear in cool markets (like Camden or Portobello in London). You can also get together with friends to trade clothes you are sick of or that don't fit any more, or even buy amazing used designer clothes on ebay. Sure, they have to be transported, but at least the manufacturing process has been finished!

Answer 2

Cheryl M's answer above is excellent - this is a bit repetitive but there are a couple of points I'd like to add.

1. Make sure your attic has 200mm of insulation, that your cavity walls are insulated and you have double glazing. Set your thermostat to 18 or 19C depending on what you can hack.

2. Buy local food from small shops - they don't shift food around the country as much as the big stores.

3. Eat less meat (I should practice this myself but don't).

4. Vote along environmental lines.

5. Avoid 'anti-bacterial' products containing substances such as triclosan.

6. Buy energy efficient goods (all white goods, lightbulbs and some others have A-G ratings)

Answer 3

Well there's doing everyday things like switching off all the plugs when you don't need them! (amount of times I've seen plugs on when they're not needed) Also don't leave your telly on standby! When you do get into a car with a big group try and use least amout of cars possible! Don't smoke! Buy beauty products from the body shop (commosion please he he only joking!) As I'm typing, I'm sure someone's already written this down and made me look v silly enjoy!

Answer 4

if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use



Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003

Answer 5

Oh, simple..save the papers that u printed out and use that same papers for rough draft or drawing or printing again on same papers. Other suggest is to use the water rain barrel to converse the water supply and use that rainwater. other sugget is to look up on interent here the website
http://tom.acrewoods.net/research/begreen

other suggest is to reduce the room temperate to save heating or A/C power that will save ur heating bill! and turn off the electrity when not needed

Answer 6

buy recycled products
reuse as much as you can as often as you can
minimise vehicular transport as much as possible
buy local foods to avoid air miles in transport
reduce energy usage in the house by turning things off or insulating etc
try to use 'clean' energy from wind/solar power
compost food waste
plant trees/plants

encourage others around you to do as much of this as well to make more of a difference

Answer 7

Paint your house green
Wear green
Become green with envy

Answer 8

as u r not an allien ......little green men.....lol,compost,use same bags over and over again when shopping,use engry lights,turn of all electria when not in use,turn off lifhts,go ecomaine sven for ur ele b

Answer 9

Chloraphyll injections

Answer 10

Solar panels,wind turbines ,don't fly (unless your David Cameron) don't waste toilet paper .