I have a whole slew of webpages that have caught my attention over the last several months. Some of them are about how to minimize your impact on the planet’s resources while maintaining a comfortable life. Some of them have been (or will be) mentioned and linked to in other posts here.
- This first is a youtube video that shows how carbon emissions over the United States flow. It’s a little long a dry, but I think it’s important to know why this is such a concern: CO2 Maps
- There are very real benefits to “going green” as Dr. Mao says in his post on Secrets of Longevity.
- If it all seems so daunting (and let’s face it: the strident tone of many environmentalists makes us all want to just crawl in a hole and hide sometimes), here is a website that breaks things down into more manageable chunks: treehugger.com
- This next shows in dramatic form, how gasoline prices have changed. There are also some political opinions readily expressed at this site…: Zfacts.com
- Many religious organizations are also beginning to be involved in helping to heal the earth – is yours? greenfaith.org
- and one last “informational” help, a CO2 calculator. I will list two, both are rather country-specific, but I think you can get a general idea from either one about both the things you can change to be a little more “carbon-conscious” and how you compare to others in using resources: first, from the United States — Climate Crisis/Take Action
and second from Great Britain — carbon calculator
and as a side note, if you put “carbon calculator” into a search engine, there will be many more you can check out!
The long and the short of it all is, if those of us who have access to high-energy, high-resource-consuming products and activities continue to use them as much as we do… if we continue to encourage industrializing nations to manjfacture products with inefficient (but inexpensive) technologies… and if we don’t find ways to heal the scars we have already inflicted (pit mines, poisoned rivers, clear-cut hillsides) then we are actually condemning our children and grandchildren to rather sad lives. I don’t actually think my own life will be significantly impacted by the changes to climate/food production, but I am certain my children and potential grandchildren will be.
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