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How you Can Affect Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change

The majority of the scientific community Apartments with flat roofs can have
agrees. Man is adversely affecting the rooftop gardens. Business people can fill
environment and accelerating global office buildings and retail
warming. Greenhouse gases created by our establishments with live trees, hanging
modern lifestyles are blanketing the plant baskets, and exotic flowers. Even
Earth in a warming cocoon and causing an people with a 'brown thumb' can find
ugly metamorphosis - a planet riddled easy-to-grow plants like philodendrons,
with severe weather, animal species cacti, spider plants, ivies, and African
extinctions, and an inhospitable violets.
environment for future generations. Reduce the impact of your trash.
Governments and industries are not Most landfills produce huge amounts of
reacting quickly. In our lifetime, the methane. Garbage produces methane gas
world as we know it may no longer exist. when it decays in an anaerobic
It is up to everyone to start making (oxygen-free) environment. Most landfills
changes NOW, working together towards a crush garbage and place it into a
common goal: the preservation of this plastic-lined pit, then layer the trash
glorious, beautiful world in which we with dirt and more garbage.
live. You can help prevent landfill methane
Quit overstuffing yourself at the table. production by composting as much as
Huh? That is a strange statement! How can possible. Just about anything organic is
your eating habits have an effect on compostable - potato peelings, coffee
greenhouse gases? grounds, unsalted pasta water, moldy
There are a growing number of overweight baked goods, etc. Avoid large items like
and obese people in the so-called whole potatoes and corncobs. You should
affluent countries. Have you ever chop them into smaller pieces before
considered where all those hamburgers, adding them to your compost bin. Avoid
hot dogs, and chicken nuggets come from? meat, oily or fatty substances, or
Producers use prime agricultural land to anything prepared with appreciable
cultivate grass and grain crops for amounts of salt.
feeding animals in the human food chain. Add finished compost to your houseplants
A single cow needs about five acres of and garden, or use it for lawn
pasture in order to thrive. During its top-dressing to create lusciously healthy
lifetime, a cow can create truckloads of growth. You can purchase a commercial
manure - manure that creates a compost bin at your local department,
considerable amount of methane (a hardware, or garden supply store.
greenhouse gas). The agricultural land Alternatively, search the Internet for
required to raise one cow would feed 'plans compost bin construction' if you
humans more efficiently when devoted to would like to try building a bin from
crops like wheat and soybeans. scratch.
The meat we consume goes through several You can add many unusual items to your
processing stages using a variety of compost:
materials - including paper, plastic, 100% cotton clothing (no buttons or
Styrofoam, and cardboard. Transportation zippers)
to the slaughterhouse, processing plant, 100% wool sweaters or socksbrown paper
retail store, and then to the kitchen bagsburnt toast, cakes, potatoescorked or
burns up energy and creates toxic soured winecrushed eggshellsdryer
greenhouse emissions. lintfeathers and furhair clippingsjunk
All that extra food ultimately creates mail (no plastic or metal)leather goods
methane gas when it ends up in the sewer. (metal and plastic pieces removed)pasta,
In addition, each extra pound of fat on cooked or uncooked (without the
the body requires more oxygen to sauce)shells from almonds, peanuts, and
maintain, depleting a resource that plant walnutsshredded papersmall pieces of
life must replenish. cardboardsmall quantities of expired
Give back some of the oxygen you breathe! dairy productstea bags and coffee
Plant life consumes carbon dioxide (a filterstoenail and fingernail
greenhouse gas) and produces life-giving clippingsvacuum cleaner bags and
oxygen. However, man clears forests and contentswooden skewers (broken into small
prime agricultural land to erect pieces)wooden toothpicks
ever-higher skyscrapers. If we were to You can locate a more comprehensive list
spend more time building down into the if you search the Net for 'things to add
ground instead of up into the air or to compost'.
sprawling into the countryside, we would These tips are just a start. Keep
leave more surface area for agriculture watching for further informational
and nature. Until architects embrace this articles in the days to come.
concept, we can help replenish a bit of (c) Copyright Kathy Steinemann: This
the Earth's oxygen by filling our lives article is free to publish only if this
with greenery. copyright notice, the byline, and the
Surround yourself with houseplants. Every author's note below (with active links)
balcony can have flowerboxes filled with are included.
beautiful oxygen-producing blooms.




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