What are YOU doing to reduce global warming?

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Answer 1

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Living in Sydney, which is already struggling with water problems, I'm concious of doing all I can to help prevent global warming. I'm sick of the, I can't make any difference attitude. If you personally fail to change your lifestyle to lessen the impact of global warming how can you blame politicians for not doing anything!

I bike or walk wherever possible. To travel longer distances I always try to use public transport but if I absolutely need to use a car then I use a car share scheme here in Sydney - no SUVs just small economical cars. Recycle, recycle, always switching electric goods off not just leaving on standby etc.

If we all make lots of small changes it will add up into one big change.

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Answer 2

I started just know...
I decided to change the kind of food that I was eating 'cause I was farting a lot !

Answer 3

I am a self employed construction worker. Not driving is out of the question, but, I have everyone ride in my truck so there is only one vehicle going to the job, thus reducing emissions. You can do a lot about global warming if you would run for president again Al!

Answer 4

I don't drive so that's a major improvement.
The big problem here in England is the lack of incentives to recycle. I had to ask my council for a recycling box for 7 months - they don't have them on my street as access is limited - and now the private company who collects them won't collect mine!
I now have to go to my local school to recycle paper, bottles and aluminium but plastic provision is woeful.

Here's what I'd do -
Nationalise all public transport so it would be cheaper and more available for all.
The same for water companies - Thames Water has been rarely been out of the news for its leaks this summer yet blames it water shortages on its customers.
Put solar panels on ALL houses and flats - unobtrusive, cuts energy bills.
Stop emissions trading as this is passing the buck from one country to another.
Oh, and close down all nuclear power plants. The planet's safety isn't worth it for a few kilos of uranium and plutonium which will remain radioactive for several hundred thousand years.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest Al,
Jools

Answer 5

Being a teacher. I am telling my students about the effects of global warming and give them the tips to reduce it.

We all together with my school students generated mass awareness by rallying out in the streets. I have lead all the procession.

We have started working some organisation i.e. wwf to reduce the speed of global warming.

Answer 6

I recycle glass, plastic, paper and cardboard. I have had a water butt installed in my garden so I can water my plants with rain water. I have had a composter installed in my garden. All non-meat food waste goes in that along with garden cuttings. I have had all my windows double-glazed recently and I have turned down the thermostat for the central heating. I take showers instead of baths to save water. I turn off lights if I am not in a room to save on electricity. I use a dishwasher (when it is full!) rather than washing up in the sink to save water as well. I car share to get to work.

I'm doing as much as I can!

Answer 7

This may be a minor deviation from the point of the question. But if (and the theories surrounding this are many and far reaching) global warming is indeed being caused by human intervention, then surely maybe it would be a good idea to get the US to actually agree to levels of polution to be kept rather than snubbing all European etc lobbyists attempts to halt the massive hole the US is causing (Kyoto Protocol). So ... in answer to your question, I am raising public awareness that the largest polluter in the world is doing nothing bar spouting words.

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http://www.vexen.co.uk/USA/pollution.htm…

Answer 8

Its all the little things - cycling to work instead of using the car, turning off the tv instead of leaving it on stand by, turning off lights and appliances when not in use and trying to lay off the budget airlines. Its not a great deal, but if we all do it it can have an impact.

Answer 9

I walk by horse in my country.
No Cars, no refrigerators and so many girls.

Answer 10

I converted my V12 Bentley to LPG. Also, instead of smoking my breakfast hams, now I deep fry them....

Answer 11

I've cut down on the ammount of trash I throw out my window, as well as putting back on my exaust pipe. I try to inhale more Oxygen than I do exhale CO2. The other day I dumped ice cubes into the ocean, in hopes that it will get just a little colder. If you were president, would you have really stopped Global Warming? If Bush was president, would he have really stopped abortions?

Answer 12

I already answered this. Then the original question got deleted. Now it's back again. I wasted all those keystrokes. Quite annoying.

I envisage a silly fight going on in Yahoo! operations centre between democrat and republican moderators.....

Anyway, in brief this time to avoid needless waste of my valuable life-minutes, I am vegetarian - the single most effective means of reducing ecological footprint. Less carbon, less methane, less usage of fresh water. Even better than switching from an SUV to a small hybrid.

Please don't delete this question again.

Answer 13

Well I'm not riding a jet aircraft around the world burning ,a tonne of fuel a minute so I can deliver sanctmonious sermons to the converted in a pathetic attempt to raise my election prospects for a future presidency.
I know its not much but I think every little bit helps.

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I know.

Answer 14

As well as all the obvious, keeping energy consumption down to a minimum is probably the most important. Many people don't seem to realise that 'Energy Saving Devices' such as energy saving bulbs actually need far more energy to manufacture than traditional tungsten bulbs, so on balance, aren't as 'efficient' as they appear. Using energy only when we need it should be the answer. Driving more considerately for example. Most of like the luxury of having our own vehicles, and some of us can't get to work cycling or using public transport as we work in remote areas. If every person drove more considerately, gained a small extra 5mpg through considerate driving, we would save a whopping ammount of energy. If the average car gained 5mpg, on a full tank of full (lets say average of 10 gallons), thats 50 miles of 'extra' journey or approximately 1 extra gallon of unused fuel. If 10 million drivers did that every week, we would save 10 million gallons of fuel. Now imagine those figures on a global scale?

Answer 15

I try not to fart but sometimes you just got to.

Answer 16

the only thing i can think that i do is car pool,and walk. There are probably more that i do i just cant think of anything else


statement..please run for president..

im not the only one who wants you to run...see
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;…

Answer 17

Working for a company that sells and installs solar heating panels, energy efficient condensing boilers (including the worlds first drainfree boier), using energy efficient lightbulbs, car-sharing

Answer 18

Reduce open the refrigerator as once open it, it'll make the ozone layer thin.

Reduce use engine vehicles cos smoke makes the ozone layer hot and thinner.

Answer 19

I do not drive, I am walking.
For inner city
(I live in Paris-Ile de France), I have no choice, I use l'autobus |:en français dans le texte | because Streetcars were supressed in order to help "automobile" industry to avoid "la faillite" before WWII and never reinstalled since then.
The posthumous victory of Hitler and Mussolini : Wolkswagen and Autostrada everywhere for everybody
[ sic transit gloria mundi ]
For going out,I have train riding though for the same reason,the places to visit are restrained ; half-network of the railroads being closed to favour motoring .
It is the modern version of the bloody Highwaymen.
I believe the same process acted in the whole world !

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Is my American English understandable enough ?

Answer 20

personally i recycle,walk or use public transport to get around never leave anything on standby i just wonder if i can do a bit more

Answer 21

Walk or ride a bike when possible instead of using the car.

Answer 22

First thing I do is to re-use what I can. Eg plastic supermarket bags are great bin liners. I also recycle all that I can around the house. I live in London and, while services for recycling are becoming available, it's disappointing to see that councils are not encouraging recycling and thus there is not a big uptake (eg we're the only people on our street who regularly put recycling out for collection).

One of the biggest domestic contributers to global warming are cars. I'm from Australia where it is usual for people, particularly businessmen (ie not so much the businesswomen), to have big cars that they constantly drive around. I find it quite frustrating to see big 6-8 cylinder cars carrying around just the one person, particularly when you're on a route where there is excellent public transport. As a global society, particularly in the developed world, we need to make the choice to use less fossil fuels. For me this includes walking or catching public transport instead of driving and buying cars that use less fossil fuels (eg my last car was a Toyota Prius hybrid fuel car). Governments need to encourage this sort of behaviour, eg by giving tax subsidies on 'green' cars or increasing taxes on high fuel consumption cars.

We also need to think about the energy that we use in our homes so that we reduce the use of fossil fuel power generators. I make sure that I turn off lights that I'm not using and try to minimise the need for heating (eg closing doors so that we only heat rooms that are being used).

Answer 23

Develop a way to run cars on water. I imagine the lionshare of the global warming is coming from internal combustion engines, refineries to make the fuel for them and from other plants running on inefficient century old technology.

Answer 24

Gave up driving, bought a bike, got into self sufficiency.
Planted a few hundred trees.
Recycle our rubbish.
Even cut down on the ciggies.
Grow our own fruit veg etc cuts down on the packaging and transportation.
Don't use spray cans anymore

This is the real ANGLIK (no one really) by the way cheers!

Answer 25

I work from home now that i work for myself and have probably shed 1000 miles per week. I drive a diesel car and recycle all my waste. I switch lights off when not needed. I dont fly unless I need to. I support local produce to reduce food miles and support local producers because I care about them and their food is good. I wish the govenment would support our farmers, fisherman and manufacturers more because all of this reduces food miles and goods miles. I pay my taxes on time and dont cheat the system because its not right.
Why do i still feel that Im going to be ripped off one way or another and that money will be used to support government frivality and nothing better?

Answer 26

Educating my children for future references on all sorts of things

Answer 27

fart less

Answer 28

I open my window when i have air conditioning on while in my car or at home

Answer 29

I do what i can, walk where possible, work in organic promoting resturant, recycle use old fasioned non chemical substance for cleaning

How much does it all help?

Answer 30

Moving to higher ground! Besides, it doesn't matter what i do, if the USA is just going to keep people in their cars, and the rail companies in the UK keep the price of train tickets so high that it is 5 times cheaper for 2 people to drive a car instead of taking the train!

Answer 31

Eat as much beef as possible. Methane from bovine farts is a major contribution to the greenhouse effect!