Shriram Insight

STOP GLOBAL WARMING

Protect and conserve forest worldwide:
Forests play a critical role in global warming: they store carbon. When forests are burned or cut down, their stored carbon is release into the atmosphere - deforestation now accounts for about 20% of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

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Encourage your school or business to reduce emissions:
You can extend your positive influence on global warming well beyond your home by actively encouraging other to take action.

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Keep your car tuned up:
Regular maintenance helps improve fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. When just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly millions kg. of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere.

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Make your city cool:
Cities and states around the country have taken action to stop global warming by passing innovative transportation and energy saving legislation.

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Don't leave an empty roof rack on your car:
This can increase fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 10% due to wind resistance and the extra weight - removing it is a better idea.

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Reduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible:
Avoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 225 kg. of carbon dioxide emissions a year! Look for transit options in your area.

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Buy fresh foods instead of frozen:
Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.
Buy organic foods as much as possible:
Organic soils capture and store carbon dioxide at much higher levels than soils from conventional farms. If we grew all of our corn and soybeans organically, we'd remove maximum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere!

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Seek out and support local farmers markets
They reduce the amount of energy required to grow and transport the food to you by one fifth. Seek farmer's markets in your area, and go for them.

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Start a carpool with your co-workers or classmates:
Sharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 700 kg. a year.

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Eat less meat:
Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and meats are one of the greatest methane emitters. Their grassy diet and multiple stomachs cause them to produce methane, which they exhale with every breath.

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Plant a tree:
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. Shade provided by trees can also reduce your air conditioning bill by 10 to 15%.

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Reduce waste:
Most products we buy cause greenhouse gas emissions in one or another way, e.g. during production and distribution. By taking your lunch in a reusable lunch box instead of a disposable one, you save the energy needed to produce new lunch boxes.

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Re-use your shopping bag:
When shopping, it saves energy and waste to use a reusable bag instead of accepting a disposable one in each shop. Waste not only discharges CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, it can also pollute the air, groundwater and soil.

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Use less hot water:
It takes a lot of energy to heat water. You can use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead (350 pounds of carbon dioxide saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year) instead of hot.

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Take a shower instead of a bath:
A shower takes up to four times less energy than a bath. To maximize the energy saving, avoid power showers and use low-flow showerheads, which are cheap and provide the same comfort.

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Use the washing machine or dishwasher only when they are full
If you need to use it when it is half full, then use the half-load or economy setting. There is also no need to set the temperatures high. Nowadays detergents are so efficient that they get your clothes and dishes clean at low temperatures.

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Cover your pots while cooking:
Doing so can save a lot of the energy needed for preparing the dish. Even better are pressure cookers and steamers: they can save around 70%!

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Replace your old single-glazed windows with double-glazing:
This requires a bit of upfront investment, but will halve the energy lost through windows and pay off in the long term. If you go for the best the market has to offer (wooden-framed double-glazed units with low-emission glass and filled with argon gas), you can even save more than 70% of the energy lost.

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Don't let heat escape from your house over a long period:
When airing your house, open the windows for only a few minutes. If you leave a small opening all day long, the energy needed to keep it warm inside during six cold months would result in almost 1 ton of CO2 emissions.

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Defrost old fridges and freezers regularly:
Even better is to replace them with newer models, which all have automatic defrost cycles and are generally up to two times more energy-efficient than their predecessors.

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Move your fridge and freezer:
Placing them next to the cooker or boiler consumes much more energy than if they were standing on their own. For example, if you put them in a hot cellar room where the room temperature is 30-35ºC, energy use is almost double and causes an extra 160kg of CO2 emissions for fridges per year and 320kg for freezers.

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Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket:
You’ll save 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple action. You can save another 550 pounds per year by setting the thermostat no higher than 50°C.

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Do not leave appliances on standby:
Use the "on/off" function on the machine itself. A TV set that's switched on for minimum hours a day and in standby mode during the remaining hours uses about maximum of its energy in standby mode.

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Clean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner:
Cleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

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Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer:
Almost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.

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Install a programmable thermostat:
Programmable thermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bill.

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Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light(cfl) bulb:
CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.