When you can see the difference recycling makes in your house, you can begin to imagine how big an impact it can have on the world.
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Quotes tagged ‘Environmental Thinking’
How we treat the earth says much about us as a society, about our spirit and strengthen as a nation.
Politics will always be part of the equation. Whom we elect to office on every level will always play into it all.
Our world is becoming so convenient that we take it for granted.
The world often sees environmentalism or being green as being less bad. It's not really being less bad, it's about being more good . . . When all of a sudden you realize that we have to become a creative force, not just a less destructive force.
Paper is the most common form of waste. Much of it can be recycled, but that still means more energy has to be used to process it. Using less paper means saving energy, trees, water, and the chemicals needed in the manufacturing process. Trees are important because they prevent erosion and they abso…
Only 3 percent of water on earth is freshwater, the rest is saltwater. Fresh drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce. Only 20 percent of the world's population has running water, and more than one billion people do not have any access to clean water.
Global warming can cause sea levels to rise, intensify storms and weather patterns, and increase the likelihood that diseases will spread faster and farther around the planet.
Plastic . . . is made largely from synthetic material . . . composed mostly of petroleum. Some plastics, such as a common type called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, can be worse for the environment than the others because they're made from more toxic materials . . . They can release toxic fumes if burn…
Pollution can infect water, air, and ground. Pollutants can cause diseases and illnesses and even kill us.
Renewable resources are those natural resources that regenerate, such as wind, water, trees, and sunlight. Renewable resources are never in danger of running out for good, only of our using more of their supply at a rate faster than they can regenerate.
Recycling prevents the need for more raw materials to be used when making things; therefore it saves natural resources. Recycling also helps save energy because it reduces the need to manufacture new things.
Electronic appliances contain parts made from hazardous materials and needed special care when they're disposed of.
Landfills not only take up land space that could be left natural used for other purposes, but they can lead to air and water pollution issues in the local environment.
Coal is what's used most to create electrical power. Coal is burned to make steam to power generators that make electricity. So, the more kWh you use, the more likely coal is burned . . . Burning coal is a big source of harmful pollution and carbon emissions that can lead to global warming.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Food waste is perhaps the single biggest, and potentially most solvable, environmental problem today. Why don’t we spend more time and resources fixing this?
Our job as people who understand the fundamental connectedness of the environment and thriving life of all kinds is to shift our culture (relatively quickly) to make the most meaningful of these changes feel inevitable. That shift starts with each of us.
Each of us can make this change happen by doing things differently in our own lives. But it's down to Governments to make the really big shifts towards sustainability.
The planet is in peril. From plastics, from pollution, and most of all from burning fossil fuels. We have to change the way we live, and we have to do it fast.