Four Easy Ways To Help Prevent Global Warming: Start With Simple Steps Anyone Can Take
You want to know how you can easily help prevent global warming?
There are actually many ways
and I've included four below that are simple and easy for you to
implement right away. All four of these steps focus on
reducing your energy consumption in order to reduce the amount of
greenhouse gases you are personally responsible for generating. When
you look at this list you may think to yourself that these things don't
have a big impact. If that's what you think, then you need to
understand...
If you only pay attention to your own actions, then you
are not going to be effective in preventing global warming!
If you are the only person to implement the following recommendations,
you'd be right; your actions wouldn't have a
big impact. But, by making these simple changes you show the people
around you ways to prevent global warming by leading by example.
By being the change you wish to
see, you greatly increase your credibility in the eyes of your peers,
which makes it much easier for you to enroll them in helping to prevent
global warming with you.
So, don't underestimate the power of these four easy ways
to prevent global warming!
Step 1: Prevent global warming by minimizing drafts in your home.
One of the simplest and easiest ways to prevent global warming is to make
sure all your windows and doors are draft free. Small gaps in your
windows and doors can cause you to consume a lot more energy than you
really need to in order to heat and cool your home. To make your home
free from drafts wait until a cold day, then hold your hand along the
edges of your doors and windows feeling for cold air.
If you detect drafts, buy weather stripping from your
local hardware store and install it wherever it is needed.
Step 2: Prevent global warming by reducing your waste electricity use.
Amazingly about 11% of residential electricity consumption is used by "phantom
loads." A phantom load is caused when an electrical appliance draws
electricity when it isn't in use. For example, a DVD player has an
electrically lighted display that stays on even when you turn the power
off. An easy way to eliminate these phantom loads is to plug your
computers, printers, scanners, DVD players, televisions, etc. into
multi-plug electrical surge protectors. Then, with one flick of the
switch, you can make sure that the appliances plugged into your surge
protectors are drawing no electricity at all.
Step 3: Prevent global warming with more efficient light bulbs!
One of the simplest ways to prevent global warming is by using more
efficient light bulbs. The Union of Concerned Scientists tell us that
if every American household replaced just one incandescent light bulb
with a compact fluorescent one, then over the life of the bulbs 90
billion pounds of CO2 emission would be prevented from going
into the atmosphere. This is like taking 6.3 million cars off the road!
Step 4: Prevent global warming by turning down your hot water heater.
Most of us have our hot water heaters turned up too high. If you turn down
your hot water thermostat just 10 degrees Fahrenheit,
you reduce 3% to 5% of your energy consumption. You'll have plenty of
hot water if you set your water heater between 110-120°F.
These four simple ways to prevent global warming can be
implemented quickly, easily, and with little to no expense.
If the potential
effects of global warming are really scary to you, then you should
implement these steps in your life today, but don't stop there!
Once you've implemented these
solutions, share this article with your friends, and explain to your
friends how you've made these simple changes. Be sure to offer your
friends help and support in making these changes themselves to make it
extra easy for them to prevent global warming with you.
Also, when you tell your friends about this article and
the changes you’ve made, be sure to explain all the
benefits you've received from doing so. Help your friends feel
how these four simple steps have helped give you more hope,
save you money, etc! The more your friends can feel the emotional and
financial benefits you've experienced from preventing global warming,
they more likely they are to join you!
Lead by example, and help others to do the same!
The cumulative effect will be
significant if you put dedicated effort into changing yourself while
supporting those around you to do the same.
So don't delay, be the change you wish to see.
Implement these
four setps so you can help in preventing global warming
today, and then get others to join you in your efforts!
Adios,
Nathan Brown
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This article may be reprinted freely as long as this resource box is
included.
Nathan Brown is an
activist creating a revolutionary movement by showing people how to help prevent global warming.
You can sign up to join and help spread the movement: http://www.acoolerclimate.com
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P.S. Did these four steps help you in preventing global warming?
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