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- Earth Day - April 22 (every year)
2- Develop the civilization of the light based on humanity, common sense and free
3- Decrease the advertising that you receive it takes 2 minutes
4- Plant trees and use it to build houses
5- Develop car sharing everywhere in the world


links: Stop junk mails ; the-cma.org
links: tree planting ; Wangari Maathai
link: car sharing in the world

Energy
1- thermal solar storage with salt , with vacuum (the best)
2- Complete Solar dish systems for sale


links: solar gradient pond ; vacuum experiment
link: acrosolarlasers

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


link: communauto
link: carpool.ca
link: bus Montreal trip planner

Consumption
1- Consume less in general
2- Grow your own vegetables/fruits
3- Buy green products in your area example: cloth diapers
4- Consume local products, look where the product comes from
    and buy it from the closest manufacturing location (it is always written on every product)
5- Consume products according to the season
    (ex: apples in the winter, cherries in the summer)
6- For the garbage, use biodegradable/compostable bags instead of plastic bags
7- Avoid packed products (plastics, styrofoam)
    (ex: packed meat/ packed fish - buy at the counter and ask for paper wrapping)
8- Bring your own plastic bags/ own tupperware plate when you buy fruits/vegetables/fish/meat

links: kijiji (free ads) ; freecycle (free donations)
link: forum gardening
link: where to get cloth diaper ?
links: cooplamaisonverte ; segal (bio very good prices)
link: cleaning products Lemieux


link: where to get biobags (Bio Terre) ?

Paper
1- Use toilet paper made from recycled paper
2- Use the internet to receive/pay your invoices, bank statements and pay your taxes
3- Read electronic newspapers
4- Call institutions to stop receiving mail 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: electronic thermostats


link: bulbs energy star

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3R’s)
1- Reuse everything
2- Bring used paint to the processing centers
3- Use your municipal recycling services
4- Get informed about municipal collection days for autumn leaves and used Christmas trees
5- Set up your own compost heap in your back yard


link: forum
link: where can I take my paint remains ?
link: how to compost


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: Roy Dupuis

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


link: green shop Moutain Equipment Coop

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: work from home more often
link: livelink

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


link: live news on Google about climate change

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