Help Protect Yellowstone (takes 2 minutes)

Do you care about our environment?  What about the magnificent Yellowstone National Park? Help save old faithful with 2 minutes of your time....

According to the Sierra Club; "coal pollution from power plants like the Colstrip coal-fired power plant in Montana is impacting the magnificent views and unique Yellowstone experience.

There is cost-effective technology that could clear the air at Yellowstone and dramatically improve the views, but Big Coal is lobbying the EPA hard to install second-best technology to help their bottom line."

Click here to volunteer your two minutes;  http://tinyurl.com/82v6g9u

Plant A Tree for Earth Day Without Getting Dirty

www.plantabillion.org

Deforestation in the Amazon Video

Earth Day is Getting Close

One simple and affordable thing you can do to participate in this years Earth Day celebration is to live and play by candle light. Pledge to yourself; one, two, three hours of candle time and see how it goes. You may enjoy it so much that you no longer flick the light switch.  I did it last year and it was awesome.

Mardi Gras Beads?

                                                     

Have you ever wondered what happens to all those "Mardi Gras" BEADS!  Its estimated that 25 million beads are circulated during the Mardi Gras time period.  Unfortunately, these beads end up in local waters and as expected in our landfills.

Credit can be given to non profit organization, 'Arc of Greater New Orleans' who's purpose is supplying folks with psychological disabilities- jobs and employment.  They built a float to travel the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras and at the end of Mardi Gras to promote the collection of the beads with the intent of recycling them.

The float debuted during a February 5, 2012 Mardi Gras celebration parade and collected 1000 pounds of beads.  These beads will be collected, bundled and resold at a discounted price.  The expected sales will be towards upcoming festivities such as St. Patricks Day, New Years and further Mardi Gras events.

The float had scheduled to ride in several other parades as well as visiting other locations to make its sole purpose of collecting beads to keep them out of the landfills.

Kudos to 'Arc of Greater New Orleans'.

I can't believe its February of 2012!  I've been so busy lately I haven't had much time to write.  I'm sure no one really cares about my blog site but I do and want to provide new and fresh ideas and articles.  So please stop back for some great ideas on how to live your life greener. 

 Heres a bit of "food for thought" 

• In 2004, 55 billion aluminum cans were landfilled, littered or incinerated, that’s 9 billion more than were wasted in 2000. This is enough cans to fill the Empire State Building twenty times. It is also a quantity equivalent to the annual production of three to four major primary aluminum smelters.
• Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, even so, the energy required to replace the just the aluminum cans wasted in 2001 was equivalent to 16 million barrels of crude oil, enough to meet the electricity needs of all homes in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco and Seattle.
• During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 more 12-ounce aluminum cans are made. Let’s recycle them.
• Although recycling is the most common method of plastic waste pollution prevention, less than one percent of all plastics products are recycled in the U.S. Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles every hour!

How Do You Dispose Your Dinosaur or Unwanted Electronics

In the year 2010, the typical American family spent an average of $1179.00 per month on electrical equipment.   

With that statistic in mind, I can’t help but wonder where our “dinosaur” electronics are ending up.  Since a personal computer will not biodegrade or decompose - the Earth is becoming littered with electronics.  Not only computers but telephones, mp3 players, voice recorders, televisions, etc. are included in the “electronics” title.

How do you dispose of your electronics? 

                                                 

The earth’s soil littered with these potentially hazardous items - is not a safe or productive means of disposal and can wreak havoc on our ecosystem. 

The average desktop pc can have metals including but not limited to;  aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, palladium, platinum, selenium, silver, and zinc.  Along with these metals, the pc can contain potentially hazardous engineered plastics.