Archive for June, 2011

Jun28

Use renewable resources for power!

The world is moving towards an alternate energy and even you can shift to the readily available alternate energy. Renewable resources are a great advantage to tackle the problem of raise in temperature and the sources like solar, wind, hydro powers are the best sources available at this point of time. You can use the solar panels in your home for many purposes. Some of the usage of solar panel in the home are,

  • Water heating (Major purpose),
  • Mobile charging,
  • Lighting the house,
  • Using alternate power for gadgets, etc.

The solar panels are little bit costly but the maintenance is very less and you can install these panels and can forget it ever. If you calculate the power that you saved for the years of solar panel usage, you can find the real benefit of the solar panels.

So start using the solar panels in your home for all the possible use.

Jun24

Harvest rain water!

Water is essential for living and only 2% of the water are available as fresh one and the remaining water are found in the sea and in ocean as salt water. So it is our duty to conserve the available fresh water by all the possible ways. Since water is considered as the source for the origin of life, you can understand its importance and its benefits.

If you have discovered water in mars, then you can readily shift to the planet mars from earth and can start living there as the basic source for the life is found there. OK. What the thing that all of us have to do is just to use the water as minimum as possible and to recycle the used water to the possible limit. Since recycling requires certain process, you can go for reduced usage and hence you can help this world and the future generation to live longer.

The following things that you can do to preserve water resource,

  • Build a rain water harvesting plant in your home and guide the rain water that falls in the roof to the rain water harvesting pit.
  • Do not let the water leak for a long period. Fix the tap as soon as possible.
  • Use the recycled water for gardening and for cleaning purposes.

If you are with more ideas, just share here.

Jun22

Invest green!

Do you know the way of investing green? There are many ways of going green and it is one of the best thing that you can do without any extra expense. The following things are to be done by you for investing in green,

  • Choose a green sector: Invest in renewable sources, organic companies, natural foods, etc.
  •  Screen the green: Screen the available green companies that you are going to invest. That is, you can go to green vegetables but not nuclear products.
  • Create your own green strategy: Create your own strategy by reading annual reports, consult with an green investment analyst.

Supporting the green companies will by the way support those companies and you will be using your investment tactics to help those companies as they are working in large extent to help to bring a greener world. So start to invest in green companies and help this planet and our future generation.

Jun15

Spread the awareness about go green!

It is not enough if you are following the go green part and trying to save the planet. It is our duty to make an awareness for the illiterate people who knows nothing about the go green and helping the planet. Some may be thinking that how if a single person is following the things will change the world and will be leading his own life without any concern about the earth. So it is our duty to make them understand that only the drops that makes an ocean and each and every little contribution is counted.

This kind of spreading the awareness may take some time. But this will help the planet a lot and you can make a big difference by spreading the awareness. If you can’t spread it to many people, at least try it with your neighbor and slowly with others whenever possible.

It is not necessary to spend your time and to spread the awareness, you can just ask anyone to stop wasting the water as many people in the world are struggling without any water and if the person understands the mistake and stops wasting the water, then it is success for you. Else you can try it with some other at some other time. But you should not stop that if someone is not accepting your thought to help the planet. That person will realize that at later point of time.

So do your part always.

Jun10

Concentrate on small things!

There are lot of things that happen in everyone’s day to day life and it is in the hands of the person who is playing the part to take it to the right or in a wrong way. For example, consider a boat. If it travel in the right direction, it can travel easily and it can reach the shore quickly. If it travels in the wrong direction or in the opposite way, it drowns or something bad happens. This is the situation that is going on now. If you are moving in the right path of environment protection, then you can save the entire planet. Else, the planet will be drowned soon.

The following are some tiny things that can make a considerable change if all are following it,

  • Reduce the brightness of your computer for longer batters and for less power consumption.
  • Switch off every lights if they are not in use.
  • Switch to CFL or LED lights to save power.
  • Reduce the usage of plastic
  • Switch off the monitor whenever you are leaving your seat.
  • Reduce the paper printing.
  • Use your gadgets for taking notes and instead of paper to the possible ways.

Hence by following these ways, you can protest our planet.

Jun05

Calculate the carbon footprint!

You can start the things like reducing the plastic usage, reducing the usage of air conditioners, reducing the usage of papers, etc. But the main thing that you have to concentrate is the usage of vehicle daily. You will not start to think about alternate source of transport unless you realize the amount of pollution that you make in your day to day life.

The CO2 is the major green house gas and there are also many other gases like Nitrous Oxide, Methane, etc that contribute to the pollution. Find the picture below to calculate the difference that you can make in your life to our planet.

Gasoline gives 10.5 kg (23.1 lbs) CO2e/gallon, diesel gives 12 kg (26.4 lbs) CO2e/gallon,  propane gives 8.5 kg (18.7 lbs) CO2e/gallon and natural gas gives 1.5 kg (3.3 ibs) CO2e/meter3. If you would like to know how much of the total is derived from CO2, you can use the above chart.