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Hi guys. If there's already a thread like this sorry. I didn't bother to look.
Anyway, I've just been listening to the (actually rather discouraging) news coming out of the Copenhagen summit. On one hand, it's awesome to see so many countries around the world hoping to get the 350ppm number set as the limit. I was really excited when I saw that. On the other, it looks like it's going to fail miserably, and chances are America isn't going to institute nearly what we need.
I can't say I'm all that surprised, all things considered. I've been hopefully but kind of expecting it to turn out like the Kyoto Protocol where America and some other big nations don't sign, and the ones who do aren't able to meet their quotas. On the other hand, maybe people are really starting to see that we're going to have some major, incredibly awful changes happening if we don't do something, and that's a good thing.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask if anyone else has made changes in their lives to try to help change things? What are things you haven't really done but want to? Maybe as a sort of environmental New Year's resolution or something.
A couple of weeks ago, I caught a sale on light bulbs and replaced the ones in my house with the energy efficient ones. It's pretty awesome, too, because the old bulb in my entrance was really dim and hardly worked at all, and now I can actually see! Woohoo!
I also try to make my own tea and carry a water bottle, though the past couple of weeks I keep forgetting, so I'm going to have to start doing it again. I'm almost afraid to open the bottle lol. I imagine it's probably all moldy and gross now.
I think I've been really amazed living in Japan how much I can do without. In the summer, for instance, I hardly ever turn on the a/c and just open the windows. Before I would have balked at the idea of not having it on if it was over eighty lol. I also hang all my clothes to dry as I don't have a clothes drier, and I've been amazed at how easy it is and plan to keep doing it when I go back to America. I also have very limited electricity and can't run two appliances at once, which has really made me recognize not only how little I really need, but also how much I used to use without even thinking about it. It's definitely been an eye opening experience.
Anyway, I've just been listening to the (actually rather discouraging) news coming out of the Copenhagen summit. On one hand, it's awesome to see so many countries around the world hoping to get the 350ppm number set as the limit. I was really excited when I saw that. On the other, it looks like it's going to fail miserably, and chances are America isn't going to institute nearly what we need.
I can't say I'm all that surprised, all things considered. I've been hopefully but kind of expecting it to turn out like the Kyoto Protocol where America and some other big nations don't sign, and the ones who do aren't able to meet their quotas. On the other hand, maybe people are really starting to see that we're going to have some major, incredibly awful changes happening if we don't do something, and that's a good thing.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask if anyone else has made changes in their lives to try to help change things? What are things you haven't really done but want to? Maybe as a sort of environmental New Year's resolution or something.
A couple of weeks ago, I caught a sale on light bulbs and replaced the ones in my house with the energy efficient ones. It's pretty awesome, too, because the old bulb in my entrance was really dim and hardly worked at all, and now I can actually see! Woohoo!
I also try to make my own tea and carry a water bottle, though the past couple of weeks I keep forgetting, so I'm going to have to start doing it again. I'm almost afraid to open the bottle lol. I imagine it's probably all moldy and gross now.
I think I've been really amazed living in Japan how much I can do without. In the summer, for instance, I hardly ever turn on the a/c and just open the windows. Before I would have balked at the idea of not having it on if it was over eighty lol. I also hang all my clothes to dry as I don't have a clothes drier, and I've been amazed at how easy it is and plan to keep doing it when I go back to America. I also have very limited electricity and can't run two appliances at once, which has really made me recognize not only how little I really need, but also how much I used to use without even thinking about it. It's definitely been an eye opening experience.