Actions against climate change
Here are some actions to apply to avoid transforming Earth into Mars. Earth still has 4 billions years to go......

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Participate
1- Develop the civilization of the light based on humanity, common sense and free
2- Plant trees and use it to build houses



link: Wangari Maathai

To do
1- Develop car sharing everywhere in the world
2- Suppress the use of styrofoam at the supermarket (develop something similar to the biobag)
3- Create organism to manage list of people who do not want to receive advertising

link: car sharing in the world
link: products potatopak
link: example of organism to create

Getting around
1- Avoid taking planes
2- Use car sharing (with 100% eletrical car)
3- Use car pool
4- Use a bus, train, subway, your feet, bike and/or selfserve bike

link: reva electrical vehicle - INDIA

link: carpoolworld.com - INDIA

Consumption
1- Consume less in general
2- Buy green products in your area ex: cloth diaper
3- Consume local products, look where the product come from
    and buy it from the closest manufacturing location (it is always written on every product)
4- Consume products accordingly to the seasons
5- For the garbage, use biodegradable/compostable bags instead of plastic bags
6- Avoid packed products (plastics, styrofoam)
    (ex: packed meat - buy directly instead)
7- Bring your own plastic bags when you buy fruits/vegetables

links: kijiji (free ads) ; freecycle (free donations) - INDIA






Paper
1- Use toilet paper made from recycled paper
2- Use Internet to receive/pay your invoices, bank statements and pay your taxes
3- Read electronic newspapers
4- Call institution to not receive mails that you do not want (ex: advertising, visa cheques)
5- Write on both sides of a piece of paper before to throw it in the recycling bin
6- Keep all the paper that you get and put them in the recycling bin (ex: grocery receipts)


In the home
1- Do not use air conditioning
2- Insulate/weatherproof around and under the doors and windows
3- Buy electronic thermostats to automatically lower the temperature during optimum periods
4- Keep doors closed in order to preserve the higher temperature of the main room
    and to keep temperatures lower in the rooms used less often
5- Buy thick curtains for the windows
6- Buy economical bulbs for the house
7- Take a shower instead of a bath
link: bulbs energy star

Recycling
1- Bring used paint to the processing centers
2- Use your municipal recycling services
3- Set up your own compost heap in your back yard



links: how to compost ; blender composting in appartments

Get involved
1- Encourage green organizations
2- Encourage appropriate people
3- Express your green opinions to the governments
4- Everywhere you go, ask what actions are done to protect the environment


link: greenpeace - INDIA



Sports
1- Do not practise sports like motor bike, formula 1, motor boating, karting


At the office
1- Use Web Conferencing, Online Meetings and Video Conferencing
2- Get involved in teleworking
3- Use software to share documents
4- Use the least possible printers, scanners, photocopiers, fax machines
5- Bring your coffee cup, bring and fill your plastic containers at the foodcourt
    (instead of using plastic plates provided)

link: online meetings, video conferencing

link: livelink


The news concerning the climatic changes
1- Research with Google on the subject


link: live news on Google about climate change - INDIA

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