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What We Can Do at Home to Help the Earth


Green Lifestyle  (tags: recycling, energy, energy use, carbon, green, foot print, earth, pollution, conservation, Sustainabililty, habitatdestruction, humans, destruction, climate-change, CO2emissions, environment, greenliving, eco-friendly )

Rebecca
- 595 days ago - sierraclub.org
Maybe you've already changed all your incandescent lightbulbs to compact fluorescents. And this past winter you turned down the thermostat by 2 degrees. We all need to go the extra mile to wrangle the climate-change challenge and create a clean energy fut
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Lyra J. (78)
Wednesday April 23, 2008, 6:35 pm
We can do a lot of things at home, at work, with our cars, and even in our communities. In Vermont we have Green Up Day at the beginning of May. At my office we use both sides of the paper.

It still strikes me as odd that, for as many alternatives as there are out there for transportation, American's are still stuck with gas. In 'An Inconvenient Truth' Al Gore points out that each day all of us in whatever car we drive create about 19lbs. of CO2. Wow, and yet how can a family on Welfare defeat the odds and get a car that is electric?

Earth College is conducting a poll on the 'Top Ten Ways To Support Our Planet' and I invite you to take part, just go to this address:
 
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