Post by GiveInToMe on Nov 15, 2009 21:39:44 GMT -5
This is a letter I wrote to send to all my contacts in a effort make people consciense about what we are doing to the environment and other things. I translate it to english and post it here so you can forward it to your contacts as well. Please if there's any correction or addition to the letter feel free to do whatever you want to it. The purpose is to send it to as many people as possible....and feel free to translate to another language as well....
Hi everyone,
We all know about global warming, climate change, the damage we are causing to the environment….but, what are we doing about it?.... we need to create CONSCIENSE NOW!
There’s a lot of simples things we can do in our daily life to make a change. It could seem little, but if we all do our part, we can make a BIG DIFFERENCE.
Don’t wait for “others” to do it. Don’t assume the attitude of: there’s a lot of people worried about the environment….that’s enough, “they” will do something…. THEY?....THEY who?? CHANGE STARTS AT HOME! CHANGE STARTS WITH ONESELF!! Please don’t sit down and wait! While we contribute to the destruction of OUR environment!
There’s a lot of simple things we could do to help the environment. Please let’s ALL make and effort…. I’m not asking you to do EVERYTHING but at least you could start with SOMETHING. Here are a few tips we all could use like:
1. Don’t let the water running while taking a shower, washing your teeth or your hands. Close the tap while you use the soap. Get used to it, if we continue wasting water, it soon will be out of necessity. Why not start today? What are we going to leave for our future generations?
2. Install an apparatus in your toilet tank to reduce the water you consume. It’s cheap and you save a lot of water every time you flush. A simpler way, put a plastic bottle in the tank. Remove the label, fill it with water, close it and put it in the toilet tank. If you need to make it heavier you can put some stones inside the bottle. Just make sure the bottle won’t interfere with the toilet mechanism. You’ll save 3.5-7.5 liters of water in each flush.
3. PLEASE, if you are not using a light, appliance, tv set, computer, etc. TURN IT OFF!!
4. Do not throw your cooking oil in the sink. A liter of oil contaminates 1 million of liters of water! Enough quantity for 1 person’s water consumption during 14 years! Let it cool down, put it in a plastic bottle and throw it in the garbage.
5. If you go to the beach, take a bag with you and collect all the garbage you find. Plastic waste and plastic bags kills 1 million sea birds, 100 sea mammals and a whole lot of fishes every year….and please, wherever you go, if you take something to eat or drink TAKE THE GARBAGE WITH YOU. If you bring it, you take it back….common sense!!
6. Change your regular light bulbs for saving light bulbs. I know they are more expensive but, you can change them little by little. Each time you go to the supermarket buy one or two. They are great energy savers and if you substitute a regular light bulb for one of those, you are avoiding that HALF TON of CO2 contaminates the atmosphere during the light bulb’s life.
7. Use less detergent. According to Consumers Report, manufacturers recommend to use more detergent than necessary. Buy detergents with less or non phosphates
8. Don’t buy water bottles. (See attachment)
9. Buy “animal tested free” products. They are extremely cruel to the animals when doing their tests.
10. Drive less. Walk more. Use public transport. Use less the air conditioner. Keep your car in good shape.
11. RECYCLE.
12. Use rechargeable batteries…..investigate how to dispose the old ones.
11. Educate the youth, educate your children. If we teach them these simple habits from the beginning, they’ll grow up with a conscience.
This is not about wanting to save the world by ourselves. It’s about doing it together….if together we have contributed to the destruction of our planet…together we can save it.
This is for our benefit. We are destructing ourselves!!
THERE’S 4 YEARS LEFT TO DO SOMETHING BEFORE THE DAMAGE IS IRREVERSIBLE! WE NEED TO ACT NOW!!
Every time I hear about scientific investigations about the possibility to live in other planets, I say to myself….what is this about? Why not concentrate in taking care of our ONLY planet instead? This IS our home.
Investigate, look through the net other ways you can help, don’t contaminate, save water, don’t waste it…..respect nature, respect the animals, respect human life….
For all who got here….thanks for reading….and START TO ACT!!
Please forward to all your contacts. If each one of us make that at least one person start to act….you already MAKE A CHANGE.
THANKS.
Hi everyone,
We all know about global warming, climate change, the damage we are causing to the environment….but, what are we doing about it?.... we need to create CONSCIENSE NOW!
There’s a lot of simples things we can do in our daily life to make a change. It could seem little, but if we all do our part, we can make a BIG DIFFERENCE.
Don’t wait for “others” to do it. Don’t assume the attitude of: there’s a lot of people worried about the environment….that’s enough, “they” will do something…. THEY?....THEY who?? CHANGE STARTS AT HOME! CHANGE STARTS WITH ONESELF!! Please don’t sit down and wait! While we contribute to the destruction of OUR environment!
There’s a lot of simple things we could do to help the environment. Please let’s ALL make and effort…. I’m not asking you to do EVERYTHING but at least you could start with SOMETHING. Here are a few tips we all could use like:
1. Don’t let the water running while taking a shower, washing your teeth or your hands. Close the tap while you use the soap. Get used to it, if we continue wasting water, it soon will be out of necessity. Why not start today? What are we going to leave for our future generations?
2. Install an apparatus in your toilet tank to reduce the water you consume. It’s cheap and you save a lot of water every time you flush. A simpler way, put a plastic bottle in the tank. Remove the label, fill it with water, close it and put it in the toilet tank. If you need to make it heavier you can put some stones inside the bottle. Just make sure the bottle won’t interfere with the toilet mechanism. You’ll save 3.5-7.5 liters of water in each flush.
3. PLEASE, if you are not using a light, appliance, tv set, computer, etc. TURN IT OFF!!
4. Do not throw your cooking oil in the sink. A liter of oil contaminates 1 million of liters of water! Enough quantity for 1 person’s water consumption during 14 years! Let it cool down, put it in a plastic bottle and throw it in the garbage.
5. If you go to the beach, take a bag with you and collect all the garbage you find. Plastic waste and plastic bags kills 1 million sea birds, 100 sea mammals and a whole lot of fishes every year….and please, wherever you go, if you take something to eat or drink TAKE THE GARBAGE WITH YOU. If you bring it, you take it back….common sense!!
6. Change your regular light bulbs for saving light bulbs. I know they are more expensive but, you can change them little by little. Each time you go to the supermarket buy one or two. They are great energy savers and if you substitute a regular light bulb for one of those, you are avoiding that HALF TON of CO2 contaminates the atmosphere during the light bulb’s life.
7. Use less detergent. According to Consumers Report, manufacturers recommend to use more detergent than necessary. Buy detergents with less or non phosphates
8. Don’t buy water bottles. (See attachment)
9. Buy “animal tested free” products. They are extremely cruel to the animals when doing their tests.
10. Drive less. Walk more. Use public transport. Use less the air conditioner. Keep your car in good shape.
11. RECYCLE.
12. Use rechargeable batteries…..investigate how to dispose the old ones.
11. Educate the youth, educate your children. If we teach them these simple habits from the beginning, they’ll grow up with a conscience.
This is not about wanting to save the world by ourselves. It’s about doing it together….if together we have contributed to the destruction of our planet…together we can save it.
This is for our benefit. We are destructing ourselves!!
THERE’S 4 YEARS LEFT TO DO SOMETHING BEFORE THE DAMAGE IS IRREVERSIBLE! WE NEED TO ACT NOW!!
Every time I hear about scientific investigations about the possibility to live in other planets, I say to myself….what is this about? Why not concentrate in taking care of our ONLY planet instead? This IS our home.
Investigate, look through the net other ways you can help, don’t contaminate, save water, don’t waste it…..respect nature, respect the animals, respect human life….
For all who got here….thanks for reading….and START TO ACT!!
Please forward to all your contacts. If each one of us make that at least one person start to act….you already MAKE A CHANGE.
THANKS.