(Friends Of The Earth (The Big Ask) Global Warming Awareness Campaign: Polar Bear)
Help in your community
- Ways that you can get involved are with your local clean ups in your area.
- Get others in formed about the topic and get them involved in it and you can possibly make friends.
- Where you can get more information and take action on global warming is an organization called This Spaceship Earth. They have many members that are in a state of mind that the Earth is our spaceship, and we only have so many resources and so much space on Earth. If people are uninformed about global warming, then they should "recruit family, friends and neighbors to take crew actions and become crew members"(Acting as Crew). Becoming a crew member means getting into a consciousness and thinking that Earth is a spaceship and it is the only one. There is no resupply for the Earth and all the items thrown away are still on the spaceship, just out of sight, but not out of mind. More info at https://thisspaceshipearth.org/
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Reduce There is a reason why this is in order. The first thing that you can do is reduce the amount of items you buy. The less items you buy the less energy will be used to produce them. If you think about it your dollar bill is like a voting ticket and you say what is in high demand and high in supply.
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Then we
Reuse The second thing you can do is reuse items that you might just throw away immediately after using it. Like plastic water bottles, or better yet get a reusable metal bottle. Reuse your plastic containers for leftovers instead of recycling them.
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And lastly we
Recycle Your last resort after trying reducing, and reusing , then you can recycle. Many plastics that you can recycle are different all over the U.S. but the most common are ones and twos. They are different types of chemicals for each plastic based on what number they are. other things that can be recycled are paper, cardboard, glass, and tin cans.
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other ways you can help as an individual
- Turn off the water or lights when you aren't using them
- Turn off the heat or air when no one is home.
- Use public transportation, carpooling, or bike whenever possible.
- Plant trees and forestry, they naturally take in carbon dioxide to grow. Plus they are good for erosion and bee and butterfly populations around the area.
- Reduce the amount of things you buy that you want.
- Possibly eat less meat, raising cattle produce a lot of greenhouse gasses like methane, and take a lot of energy. From the transportation of their food to the handling of their product.
- Try to get products with the least amount of packaging, more packaging there is, the more energy was put into that product.
- Use less energy in general by using energy efficient appliances. Most of the energy that we use is powered by coal.
I have taken in part of a couple clean ups around my community and even around my school with my Ecology Club and Key Club. Including a Dakota High School Earth Day clean up, a Clinton River clean up, and a presentation to elementary kids on different renewable and non-renewable energies.