RE: Environmentalism
August 25, 2009 at 7:57 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2009 at 8:02 pm by dry land fish.)
I'm definitely an environmentalist. First off I work for a non profit conservation group. Through them I help to improve the environment. With that said I support penalizing large companies that are over a certain amount of CO2 emissions. I support ethanol and other enviornmentally friendly fuels. I support all research that goes toward environmentally friendly products.
I have looked into what it takes to take ones home off of the grid. When I buy another home I plan on using solar panels as my main source of electricity. I have quite a few contacts who are engineers and it wouldn't be anything to get that fixed up. I don't plan on living completely off of the grid but there is a program in America where you actually share your solar energy with the power company. They will pay you for what you don't use and they will distribute it on their system. I would only use electricity for things such as a backup in case my solar fails. I recycle and I buy the energy smart appliances and light bulbs. I turn off all of the lights I'm not using and I don't use the heat dry in my dish washer. I also wash all of my clothing in cold water and I have an environmentally friendly care that gets great gas mileage.
I think what makes someone environmentally friendly is if they do little things in their every day life for the purpose of trying to save energy or the environment. A person in their own home has the power to make a difference. If we all just did those small things that I do such as washing clothes in cold water and turning off lights that aren't in use we could really save a lot of money and CO2 emissions. I rent now but I used to live in a home I owned. I planted many trees because you can never have too many trees in the world.
PETA takes it so far that they look like idiots. I do not support harming animals. I hate the fur trade and think it's senseless killing. I support what PETA stands for....I just wish they would go about it in another way. Handing out kids meals at McDonalds that show Ronald McDonald as a rabid mad man stabbing chickens to death with a knife isn't a good way to get the point across.
One thing that I wish Americans would do is to stop it with the SUV's. Soccer moms love buying huge SUV's to put all of the kids soccer gear in and to go get groceries in. I have an extremely small car and we've taken family vacations across a few states in it and we had plenty of room. I also wish that people would stop getting in their car to drive a block or two or even three. It's like people are too lazy to walk anywhere in America. We have to drive everywhere we go.
I have looked into what it takes to take ones home off of the grid. When I buy another home I plan on using solar panels as my main source of electricity. I have quite a few contacts who are engineers and it wouldn't be anything to get that fixed up. I don't plan on living completely off of the grid but there is a program in America where you actually share your solar energy with the power company. They will pay you for what you don't use and they will distribute it on their system. I would only use electricity for things such as a backup in case my solar fails. I recycle and I buy the energy smart appliances and light bulbs. I turn off all of the lights I'm not using and I don't use the heat dry in my dish washer. I also wash all of my clothing in cold water and I have an environmentally friendly care that gets great gas mileage.
I think what makes someone environmentally friendly is if they do little things in their every day life for the purpose of trying to save energy or the environment. A person in their own home has the power to make a difference. If we all just did those small things that I do such as washing clothes in cold water and turning off lights that aren't in use we could really save a lot of money and CO2 emissions. I rent now but I used to live in a home I owned. I planted many trees because you can never have too many trees in the world.
(August 25, 2009 at 5:35 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: A bit like Leo I hate organisations like PETA and the self righteous organizations ... I don't particularly dislike Greenpeace though. Pretty much with him on everything else.
Kyu
PETA takes it so far that they look like idiots. I do not support harming animals. I hate the fur trade and think it's senseless killing. I support what PETA stands for....I just wish they would go about it in another way. Handing out kids meals at McDonalds that show Ronald McDonald as a rabid mad man stabbing chickens to death with a knife isn't a good way to get the point across.
One thing that I wish Americans would do is to stop it with the SUV's. Soccer moms love buying huge SUV's to put all of the kids soccer gear in and to go get groceries in. I have an extremely small car and we've taken family vacations across a few states in it and we had plenty of room. I also wish that people would stop getting in their car to drive a block or two or even three. It's like people are too lazy to walk anywhere in America. We have to drive everywhere we go.
