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|GO GREEN TIPS||MANDI'S FACEBOOK| |MY DEVIANTART PRINTS WISHLIST|I've been learning a lot of eco-friendly tricks lately. I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE 2 MINUTES OUT OF YOUR DAY AND READ THESE. THE HEALTH OF OUR PLANET MAY DEPEND ON IT! Here are some ideas of how to help our planet:
1.) Did you know that having one houseplant per person in a home will almost completely counterbalance one person's daily household carbon emmissions. So, say two people live in your home; having two houseplants in your home will almost wipe clean your "human thumbprint." (Human thumbprint is the term used for the negative impact humans have on the globe).
2.) Wearing organic cottons and buying clothes from thrift and vintage stores also help the environment.
3.) Recycling is also vitally important. If your area charges for recycling (such as my area), find alluminum can banks that will recycle the cans and give you a monetary bonus of a few cents a can, therefore, another good reason to recycle. Also, finding a business/school that recycles paper is helpful. When you are done with some paper, just run it by their recycling box. Most places will allow you to do this. School campuses are especially accommidating. Make sure you use recyclable papers and materials. Some paper is coated in a vaniere or is not 100% paper product. Make sure when recycling and buying paper that your paper is able to be recycled.
4.) Also, use the internet as much as possible, therefore elliminating a lot of paper-waste. Signing up for paperless billing/notifications/newsletter/etc. really reduces the amount of paper used.
5.) If you don't need to drive somewhere, don't. Walk or ride your bike. Public transportation such as trolly cars, subways, buses, carpooling, etc. is also much better for our environment because of the smaller amount of emmissions. Plus, taking public transportation is better for your wallet. Public transportation generally saves you a lot of money. With gas being over $3 a gallon now, if you pay $3 for a bus ride and go a few miles, you end up saving yourself money over time (which is another incentive to go green).
6.) Don't use cash if at all possible. Cash is a waste of paper. It is non-recyclable and is unnecissary. Using debit/ATM card or other paperless money is better for the environment because the demand on governments' mints are less.
7.) After shopping, recycle paper bags and either reuse or return plastic bags to the store. Most major grocery stores and shops such as Safeway and Walmart offer plastic bag recycling. You bring your bags back to the store after you are finished with them and the store melts them down and creates new bags with them.
8.) Eat organic! The food tastes exactly the same... sometimes even better! Organic foods are becoming more and more accessable and less and less expensive. Organics are now sold by the bucket load in major grocery stores. They now cost a lot less too. You no longer have to do all your shopping at small specialty grocers to get organic. Eating 1 bag of organic food can help save 100's of gallons of chemicals going into our water supply.
9.) No more plastic water bottles!!! Stop buying individual water bottles. Plastic water bottles are the second largest offender in landfills. Buy a reusable plastic waterbottle that you can wash and then use again. If you must have purified water, invest in a water purifier. Doing this will reduce the billions of plastic waterbottles found in landfills.
10.) Don't use paper plates! Yes, they save you the 30 seconds it takes to actually wash a plate, but in the long run, they're more expensive and are overtaking landfills. They are the third largest group found in landfills.
11.) DON'T USE DISPOSABLE DIAPERS! Disosable diapers make up the most bulk in a landfill. This is a world-wide occurance. Some studies say that landfills are 70% full of disposable diapers. They've recently come out with cloth, washable diapers that are almost exactly like disposable. They have velcro now, so you don't have to tie or pin them. Disposable diapers are not biodigradable and are extremely harmful to wildlife.
12.) No styrofoam. Styrofoam never disintigrates. It is pure chemicals that hurt wildlife and takes up landfills.
13.) When you drink from aluminum cans, take the plastic rings that hold the package together and cut the rings apart. Taking 10 seconds to cut the rings into little bits saves aproximately 15 birds/fish per package. Birds and fish get caught in the little plastic holes and are injured and die.
These are all good ideas to help slow the process of global warming and keep us healthier. I recommend you take whatever measures you can to help our planet. Doing a few small things can help a lot.
1.) Did you know that having one houseplant per person in a home will almost completely counterbalance one person's daily household carbon emmissions. So, say two people live in your home; having two houseplants in your home will almost wipe clean your "human thumbprint." (Human thumbprint is the term used for the negative impact humans have on the globe).
2.) Wearing organic cottons and buying clothes from thrift and vintage stores also help the environment.
3.) Recycling is also vitally important. If your area charges for recycling (such as my area), find alluminum can banks that will recycle the cans and give you a monetary bonus of a few cents a can, therefore, another good reason to recycle. Also, finding a business/school that recycles paper is helpful. When you are done with some paper, just run it by their recycling box. Most places will allow you to do this. School campuses are especially accommidating. Make sure you use recyclable papers and materials. Some paper is coated in a vaniere or is not 100% paper product. Make sure when recycling and buying paper that your paper is able to be recycled.
4.) Also, use the internet as much as possible, therefore elliminating a lot of paper-waste. Signing up for paperless billing/notifications/newsletter/etc. really reduces the amount of paper used.
5.) If you don't need to drive somewhere, don't. Walk or ride your bike. Public transportation such as trolly cars, subways, buses, carpooling, etc. is also much better for our environment because of the smaller amount of emmissions. Plus, taking public transportation is better for your wallet. Public transportation generally saves you a lot of money. With gas being over $3 a gallon now, if you pay $3 for a bus ride and go a few miles, you end up saving yourself money over time (which is another incentive to go green).
6.) Don't use cash if at all possible. Cash is a waste of paper. It is non-recyclable and is unnecissary. Using debit/ATM card or other paperless money is better for the environment because the demand on governments' mints are less.
7.) After shopping, recycle paper bags and either reuse or return plastic bags to the store. Most major grocery stores and shops such as Safeway and Walmart offer plastic bag recycling. You bring your bags back to the store after you are finished with them and the store melts them down and creates new bags with them.
8.) Eat organic! The food tastes exactly the same... sometimes even better! Organic foods are becoming more and more accessable and less and less expensive. Organics are now sold by the bucket load in major grocery stores. They now cost a lot less too. You no longer have to do all your shopping at small specialty grocers to get organic. Eating 1 bag of organic food can help save 100's of gallons of chemicals going into our water supply.
9.) No more plastic water bottles!!! Stop buying individual water bottles. Plastic water bottles are the second largest offender in landfills. Buy a reusable plastic waterbottle that you can wash and then use again. If you must have purified water, invest in a water purifier. Doing this will reduce the billions of plastic waterbottles found in landfills.
10.) Don't use paper plates! Yes, they save you the 30 seconds it takes to actually wash a plate, but in the long run, they're more expensive and are overtaking landfills. They are the third largest group found in landfills.
11.) DON'T USE DISPOSABLE DIAPERS! Disosable diapers make up the most bulk in a landfill. This is a world-wide occurance. Some studies say that landfills are 70% full of disposable diapers. They've recently come out with cloth, washable diapers that are almost exactly like disposable. They have velcro now, so you don't have to tie or pin them. Disposable diapers are not biodigradable and are extremely harmful to wildlife.
12.) No styrofoam. Styrofoam never disintigrates. It is pure chemicals that hurt wildlife and takes up landfills.
13.) When you drink from aluminum cans, take the plastic rings that hold the package together and cut the rings apart. Taking 10 seconds to cut the rings into little bits saves aproximately 15 birds/fish per package. Birds and fish get caught in the little plastic holes and are injured and die.
These are all good ideas to help slow the process of global warming and keep us healthier. I recommend you take whatever measures you can to help our planet. Doing a few small things can help a lot.
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It probably will be Harry she decideds to kill off next; otherwise how could she continue the series? Unless she might make an eighth book ... I dunno. The whole thing is confusing me!
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Yeah. If she doesn't kill off more main characters she's still gonna have that "spinoff" thing there, you're right. It would be quite tempting to do that, mind you.
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Oh bugger. I was really hoping she'd reconsider. I'd like to read your writing though. Lots of people make their own little spinoff serieses (I have no idea weather or not I spelt that right.
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