I agree. Small steps will add up to HUGE gains if we all just step in. If only we could convince everyone of that, then things would be better at least in those regards...

Small steps will add up to HUGE gains if we all just step in. If only we could convince everyone of that, then things would be better at least in those regards...

Yes, every little bit helps! Our planet needs it!

Australia has a pretty good household recycling system. But, like all systems, it is fallible. Some people just can't be bothered, which is a real shame.

In my house, we recycle as much as we can. We also grow vegetables and herbs, conserve water and I'm buying a little pump so we can start reclaiming water from the washing machine to run onto the garden.

As you say, every little bit helps. Good article, again, Donna.   

I'll "go green" when I live in a city that doesn't try to make it illegal to do so. Frankly, for all the talk, most communities make truly "going green" only possible when leaping through several hurdles.

I'm buying a little pump so we can start reclaiming water from the washing machine to run onto the garden.[/quote] That's great Mark! most communities make truly "going green" only possible when leaping through several hurdles. I hear ya Gid! It's horrible that the leaders of our communities don't make it easier for it's citizens to do the right thing. Although I've not run into any red tape personally, it's ridiculous to think that would happen! [quote]Good article, again, Donna.

Thx Mark!

I have been hearing about going green for years. I participated in the first Earth Day. I have yet to get a good answer in all these years. what are we saving the planet for? How is going green helping mankind? Is it possible to save the planet? I study science for fun, I like chemistry, biology, and astronomy they are fun to learn and study. What does all this recycling doing for our planet or us? I am not attacking I just want to know how people think, and what they think is really happening with their sacrifice for the planet.

You know Paladin, that is a good question. Some people have asked that question and I don't have a learned response (meaning one from a book or something). My thought on this is that our world has changed so much due to population and the improvements we have made to our different societies in order to live comfortably where we are. Some of what we do does affect the earth, environment and all. It diminishes it for some of the Earth's inhabitants, namely our animal friends and of course I've heard of a lot of plants, fishes, wildlife that are dying because of the changes to the Earth. Collecting cans might not do much, but I'm sure it does help in some way. We have to continue to do what we can individually to make our lives better and in doing so hopefully make the Earth better for us to continue to inhabit as well.

I save water by drinking beer. oh! And I crush and recycle the cans too!

I would say that we should just try and leave the Earth in no worse of a condition than when we arrived at it.  I doubt that we can reverse what we have done, and some of it wouldn't even make sense to reverse (like all the roads and buildings and such).  But, as our population grows, if we don't start recycling, we'll run out of room to store all our garbage.

Do you use your head for crushing them?

That’s easy, all you have to do is pollute the earth as much as possible. I say this only half in jest. Please let me explain. I have been studying science since 1975 as a hobby. The natural state of the planet before man and the animals showed up was not all that nice. 80% nitrogen 15% carbon dioxide 4% sulfur dioxide and 1 % trace elements. Notice that oxygen is not the dominant trace element in the atmosphere. It was not until one celled sea creatures started to pollute the air did things change.
Over the course of several million years they filtered out the carbon and sulfur out of the water which then took more out of the air. They build coral out of the dead organisms this was called coral. The pollution created by this coral killed off all the organisms that thrived on the sulfur dioxide in the air making way for new animals to inhabit the earth. When man starrted walking the earth the atmosphere was roughly 80% nitrogen, 18$ oxygen, 1% carbon and 1% trace. now we are at 19% oxygen, and 1% trace. So the entire span of mankind we have more oxygen than when we frist walked the earth.
We are able to be here because of coral, now to make the earth as good as it was before we got here we would have to kill off every thing that breaths oxygen.
LOL the tree huggers don’t tell you this. Going green is what I find strange. How can we save a planet that does not notice that we are here? How do we make the earth anything good or bad? I mean the earth changes as it wills and has done so at leasst three times that science has been able to uncover. The natural climate is what is right for the earth and we do little to help or hurt the earth. Now we can hurt or help humans by what we do. When corporations polluted the rivers and land we created the EPA and forced the clean up of those lands and rivers, 30 years later it is almost done. So we can make serious changes in things that we did but not alter the climate or stop the extinction of animals on the planet.

I meant the individual.

Not everything is about the so called "global warming".  Not filling the land with consumer wastes or putting toxic waste into the water and land would be a start. 

I don't think that you have to be a "tree hugger" to think that filling the world with garbage that won't compost for hundreds of years is a bad idea.

I know, I was taking some fun shots.



As I explained before we created the EPA to deal with that in America 30 years ago.



Sorry, but we still have not solved that problem but it won't matter much.

At least you do something Joe!lol!




I agree Karma, putting our waste in the right areas will be a good start! Many companies still don't follow the rules when it comes to disposal of their wastes!

LOL!

Really, in order to achieve a sustainable future, the world needs population controls. But until we can all get over the notion that it is some kind of inherent human right to breed, "going green" can preserve what we have and maybe make it last just a little bit longer.