One small saving and huge boon to mother nature

If 10,000 of us were to purchase one less bottle of floor cleaner, we'll avert the production and transportation of 25 bathtubs full of chemicals. Impact on the planet- reduced carbon and other deadly chemical emission in production as well as transpiration of these chemicals. Most of the stuff you buy gets transported thousands of kilometers via carbon monster trucks. One truck transporting such stuff over 1000 kilo meters means nothing less than a tonne of Co2 emission in the air!!! That's the impact of transportation alone! Did you ever imagine that one nice packed bottle that we pick up neatly stacked in the shelve in the neighborhood super market is effectively a CO2 guzzling monster. Only that the emission is not happening where you buy.

Am I suggesting not cleaning the floor with a dis-infect ant. Absolutely not. All I am trying to point out is that if we can get a little conscious and reduce consumption without impacting the desired lifestyle, we can make a big difference. just that we need to take a pause and think for a few seconds before we consume.

Eating right to reduce your carbon foot print

Here are some simple and low effort ways of making a difference. Again things that will not make any difference to your quality of life and yet if only a few of us enlightened and educated people decide to act and that to without any in-convenience to our pampered selves, the impact can be substantial. I am talking hundreds of tonnes of CO2 saved, if only a few thousand of us act!

Next time you go to that pizza shop and the guy at the counter ends up giving you more plastic cups than you need, rather than throwing the rest in the bin, just give it back. You never thought it is worth even thinking of. Believe me you were wrong!

- Eat lower on the food chain - Meat production can be energy, resource and pollution intensive.
- Eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes is healthier and easier on the planet. Consider exploring vegetarian options.
- Eat locally – it saves transportation costs and helps the local economy, too!
- Take only as much as you can eat!
- Avoid throwaway plates, cups, flatware and trays. Carry and use your reusable mug.
- Eat at food service areas where you can use ceramic plates and cups, metal silverware and reusable trays.
- Avoid take-out food which is over-packaged.
- Choose organic

Tips Source: http://www.go-green.ae/eatgreen.php

Carbon cost of electricity consumed

Did you know that on an average every unit of electricity your consume (KiloWatt Hour) contributes to more than 0.6 KG of Co2 being emitted in the air? Simple maths and you will realize that one light bulb that remains switched on over night contributes to over 0.2 tonnes of Co2 in a year. That's the cost of one person doing something (or not doing!) that adds no value to that person's life or any one else's! Just 1000 aware people deciding to cut back on something as simple as that and one has saved 200 tonnes of Co2 from being unnecessarily added to the atmosphere! Simple and yet mid boggling. Isn't it?

Co2 is the air. A quilt 3.2 meters thick!

Human beings adds around 70 million tonnes of invisible carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere every day! Unfortunate fact is that Co2 is invisible, odorless and mixes with the air. Hence we don't seem to feel the impact. All the carbon-dioxide in the air in 2008, were it not to get mixed and end up creating a separate layer, it would be a quit across the globe with the thickness of over 3.2 meters. Scary. isn't it!