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Don’t Get Mad Get Green

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Do you worry about our earth’s seas, vegetation and animals? Sure you do, and you are not by yourself. Alarmed people far and wide agree we’ve got an environmental tragedy of immense proportions resting on our hands inside the Gulf of Mexico. You may have noticed how the oil spill seems to be more vast than formerly thought. Purdue University engineering professor Steve Wereley, after evaluating BP’s congressionally required live video feed from the leak, figures that about 100,000 barrels of oil are leaking from the bottom of the ocean each day. This assumption adds to a laundry list of dreadful news about the worldwide environmental and economic front in recent years and it can be intimidating and utterly depressing to think about.

Hence what can we achieve to assist? The majority of us possess jobs and children we must adhere to. It is not like we could immediately drop everything and head down to the gulf to assist with cleanup. In addition, many people wouldn’t have the first idea of how to help with an oil spill clean up effort as well as possess the resources to create a big difference. So how must we be an integral part of the answer?

We now have to quit thinking so large, and begin small. It’s modest options like peddling our bicycle to the workplace and recycling our aluminum cans that’s what we must do to aid. It goes for corporations as well, big corporations such as Whole Foods disperse recycled reusable green bags made of 85% recycled plastic water bottles, many more firms must follow this influence. For much too long our nation has dealt with dilemas such as recycling as “optional” and with complete ignorance. We’ve got an especially limited memory as a society. Reported by Anne Casselman who wrote an article concerning the Top 10 Leading Oil Spills in The past at PopularMechanics.com, the Exxon Valdez leak in 1989 does not even get on the record. Oil spills carry on taking place throughout the world repeatedly and most of us pretend like it is a unusual incident but it’s not.

The truth is that oil will continue to be drilled as long as there will be money to be made on it. Our culture’s opinion about sustainable energy along with the eco advance requires an immediate swing. But like I said, we have got to start small and simple! For example, a different enormous eco problem is the total amount of plastic that’s being employed in this world, and this plastic is ending up inside our oceans much like the oil. You will be shocked if this is your first time learning about The enormous Pacific Garbage Patch, and as Oprah Winfrey reported last year, “it is estimated to be twice the size of Texas.” Although this large rubbish patch is composed of many types of hovering litter and debris, plastic is the largest trouble because it never completely decomposes. So not only do we have oil leaks in our oceans, we also have plastic and waste spills. Based on the Container Recycling Institute, 51.9 billion beverage bottles have been consumed to date this year, as of late May. Environmentally friendly stainless steel water bottles are a beautiful case in point of the type of straightforward improvements we can make in our particular behavior and choices to cut down on the massive plastic bottle litter. Imagine the impact that may be experienced when the typical person chooses to utilize one stainless steel water bottle rather than a dozen plastic bottles, how much of a difference can that create alone? In an identical approach, we can put a stop to environmental catastrophes by not using fuel guzzling inefficient cars and walking or taking public transportation instead, we as a populace must dictate demand by way of our personal choices.

We all care sincerely concerning the health of our world, and now we ought to refocus our frustration for the disaster in the Gulf into easy action and small alterations in our lifestyle. Whether it is recycling your waste, carrying a few green reusable shopping bags with you to the grocery store or simply making your voice noticed when you glimpse other people making harmful decisions. Don’t let the most recent news get you down, grow a foresight for a healthy planet and do the right thing, go green and be an eco leader in your neighborhood, minute alterations can encompass a large effect on Mother Earth.

Planet Beer Pong

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Recently, I lived with a couple roommates who are really big fans of the game of Beer Pong. Which is Great with me since I am a long time fan of the game myself. Our collective passion for the game has caused us to often go through hundreds and hundreds of beer cans per week, in what adds up to at least 2-3 tournaments. The game of beer pong is very simple. All you have to do is throw a ping pong from your side of a ping-pong table into one of the cups filled with beer on the opposite side. When your opponent drains a ball into a cup on your side of the table, you have to drink the beer in that cup and remove the cup from the table. The winner is the team who makes a ball in all their opponents cups first. There are usually 6 or 10 cups per side. This great game is fun and challenging, and you also go through so much beer.

Kegs can be a hassle for college students. They are difficult to transport and often a deposit is required. So nowadays people who play beer pong often get beer by the cans, in cases or 30 packs. This game requires a lot of beer drinking and it wasn’t until recently that I really considered how many aluminum can were being wasted. It’s something so obvious, but it’s also something easy to over look when having “fun” with friends in college. Since I was a kid, I was the family “can cruncher”, it was one of my daily chores, and so I’ve always “tried” to recycle aluminum cans, but definitely missed out on some opportunities to do so.

So I was amazed to learn my roommate’s Chris and John honestly try to recycle “every single can” used by anyone who plays beer pong at our house. To recycle hundreds of cans per week is not an easy task, and you might be surprised at the kind of effort it takes to maintain that green practice. Let alone, how many people do you know that will take responsibility to recycle on behalf of everyone else’s usage? There are sacrifices that come along with this habit, one being the gigantic pile of cans that accumulate in and around what once looked like a trash bin. And when it comes time for clean up, there is a lot of can crunching involved, which can really be pretty fun if you have a crew and some good music. The thing that really inspires me about my roommates is that they just don’t stop with cans. They honestly look to recycle everything they can possibly recycle in the house. Whether it be using rechargeable batteries or recycling glass and paper, they will find the most “green” way of doing something. They do this in a community that really doesn’t offer much in terms recycling options and encouraging people to go green, or making it easy to recycle.

Chris and John are a wonderful example of the kind of attitude, effort, and perseverance it requires to really Live Green. And the best part about it is how people (like me) are really influenced and inspired by their efforts to do the right thing. In reality, it takes genuine efforts to be Eco-Friendly. It’s not a spectator sport; you can’t just “support” the green movement, you must live it daily and be committed. One example is the issue of the recycling center, where it is located, and how to get whatever you are recycling to it. And are we going to turn around and drive a fuel-inefficient vehicle there? There’s also the container we use to transport whatever we are recycling to think about. It’s possible we are negating our eco friendly progress if a ton of plastic bags or grocery bags are thrown away in the process. Fuel-efficient cars and trucks, along with recycled grocery bags and stainless steel water bottles are a few solutions that greatly improve our opportunity to really make a positive overall impact.

The consistent, and deliberate action of real people like me and you is the only way the green movement will be able to sustain itself. Like all outstanding human accomplishments, on an individual or group level, it is the leaders (like Chris and John) who have the courage to actually take consistent action who motivate others to make positive changes in their lives and in the world. And we are talking about Beer Pong, which if you haven’t heard is an international phenomenon among the youth of the world, as is beer drinking in general. Young people notice what their friends are doing, and we all know how trendy young people can be. It is absolutely amazing to think about the amount of cans that we can save from being put into a landfill through recycling the cans used in beer pong!

The Multiple Benefits You Get From Living Green

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Living green is useful both to planet Earth as well as you. See, you receive a sense of self realization when you do something that helps the earth you live on. You do not recycle cans just because you receive money back for it. You recycle because it cleans up the environment you live in as well.

By making your own fertilizer, you avoid wasting money on fertilizer. That way you have you own organic compost which often times is significantly better than compost. The outcome is that you’re going to end up with gorgeous flowers to look at and smell. Hey, you can pick a flower and give it to someone. I’m positive they will be glad about it.

Living green can also help you health wise. See with more plants and flowers to clean out the atmosphere, you’ll have cleaner air to breathe. There will be less carbon dioxide being inhaled and there will be less pollution overall. Also, trees look awesome. Smoking releases a great deal of toxins in the air. You should try an electronic cigarette as a substitute.

In a different way you benefit from living green is that one could cut down your gas and electricity bills. If you utilize solar panels, you can stock up energy and not have to use the man made energy that arrives through the power lines. You can also reduce your gas heating expenses by using the stored energy to warm up your home.

See, there are dozens of ways that one could benefit from this. It is not only isolated to the amount of money you may get for selling the aluminum cans. There is more you are able to do to help mother nature. If you’re a smoker, probably the greatest thing you are able to do is to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes and use an electronic cigarette that gives you the very same taste, flavor and feel!