WHAT CAN I DO?

"If every American home replaced just 5 high use incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents, each family would save more than $60 every year in energy costs. Together we'd keep more than one trillion pounds of greenhouse gases out of our air - equal to the emissions of 8 million cars. That's a $6 billion energy savings for Americans, equivalent to the annual output of more than 21 power plants."

-Energy Star

Food

            1. Eliminate one meat meal a week.

            2. Buy locally produced food, farmers markets.

            3. Eat eco-friendly fish, abundant in the seas and low in mercury.

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Energy (Home)

            4. Buy Energy Star appliances and products.

            5. Use compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL)

            6. Adjust thermostat 2 deg. (up in summer, down in winter)

            7. Insulate and weather strip

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Energy (transportation)

            8. Drive less – walk, bike, carpool, use public transport location when feasible.

            9. Increase miles per gallon (mpg) – keep car tuned up and tires inflated to recommended pressure; make you next car a hybrid.

          10. Support increased taxes on diesel fuel & gasoline

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Garden

            11. Plant trees

            12. Use native plants, eliminate pesticides,

In General

            13. Embrace simple living, reuse, recycle, reduce waste

            14. Learn more, get involved, spread the word.

What can you do in general to keep the earth green, here

Take the 321 pledge, replace 3 incandescent bulbs with 3 cfls, Adjust the thermometer 2 degrees, drive 1 mile per hour less than the speed limit.

List inspired by: www.turnthetide.org  Program of Center for the New American Dream       

                         www.davidsuzuki.org (Join the Nature Challenge)

                         www.uua.org/actions/ecology/06global-warming.html

Personal practices of the Unitarian Universalist 2006 Statement of Conscience on Global Warming/Climate Change.