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Your personal guide to helping save the climate
Posted by tracy on 20 April 2007.
To tackle climate change we need to take action on every level - big, bold action that changes the way our cities use energy, and simple small actions we can each take that will all add up to big energy savings.
The truth is that we need nothing less than an energy [r]evolution.
This new brochure from our international office is being published around the world to show how we can protect the climate. From how singing in the shower can help save the climate, to modern, efficient electricity and heat distribution - you'll find all the answers here.
Download How to save the climate and get started.
And please send the guide on to your friends as well.
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fridges
Hi in this enviromental booklet it said about the energy usage in old fridges compared to new fridges but if an old fridge works perfectly well would it be more harmfull to change fridge due to the cfc's?
thnx
gaza
good point
Ah yes, looks like there was an omission there advising about safe disposal of fridges and freezers. Waste Online have information about how to prevent those naughty CFCs leaking into the atmosphere and Waste Connect can help you find recycling points.
Although unless anyone corrects me, I think local councils are obliged to collect white good items and dispose of them safely. Contact yours and ask for the bulky waste collection people.
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people's choice
i find that people are comfortable with the easy way of life using non re-usable fuels and wasting energy all the time because it is easy, compare how people are today to what they were 60 years ago, there is a massive difference.
i think that the public need a good wake up call before it's too late.
our children shouldn't suffer due to our mistakes or laziness.
there is a enormous difference between
what is easy and what is right!!!
wake up call
We've just started talking about how we go about tackling the root of environmental problems, not just the symptoms.
I don't usually make a habit of quoting Tories, but to cherry pick from MP John Gummer's article in A greener shade of blue?:
"Environmental policy must not be subsumed into a fight against global warming. ... Climate change is but a symptom of the disease, not the disease itself ... rooted in mankind's failure properly to value the resource that sustain us... we can put a price on everything except the things that really matter."
And it got me thinking. As you say people lived very differently 60 years ago. But more importantly for me during WWI & II there was a nation wide war effort, even if you weren't on the front line, you could do something to support it and everyone had to make sacrifices for the war effort.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I wasn't around then, and neither was my generation or many other people who remember and know what it is like to work together, make changes, even make sacrifices, for a common threat.
Of course the government had to lead the way, just as they do now in making major changes to our energy infrastructure, and legislating energy efficiency. But still everyone has to be a part of it, believe in it and want a world without devastating climate change.
I do believe we can get most of the way there through using resources much more efficiently and less wastage alongside clean technologies. But what do we do if it means asking people to give up a few lattés?
More than anything I'm afraid that most of the damage will have been done by the time there is that kind of a global leadership, cooperation and personal action.
Climate Change
Isn't it about time that Greenpeace advocated Veganism as a preferred way of life to help control climate change? Surely it's the best way forward!