Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" is a documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
The mission of our community is to inspire action at every level: from
individual action, up through our communities, to the state, national
and international level. The actions are all shifting our civilization
to a sustainable future. Let's work and take action together. The time is now. The hope is you. Let's begin.
10 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP CLEAN THE AIR IN YOUR AREA
We offer the following suggestions on how you can join the South Coast Air Quality Management District in “Cleaning the Air That We Breathe.” Together, we are making a difference.
1) Motor vehicles are responsible for more than half of all smog-forming emissions. When buying your next vehicle, consider choosing one of the lowest-polluting models available. For more information, go to www.cleanairchoices.org
2) AQMD relies on feedback from businesses and the general public to help design its regulations and programs. Help shape the region’s path to clean air by joining the AQMD Clean Air Congress. For more information, call 1-800-CUT-SMOG.
3) Some older vehicles and those that are improperly maintained emit at least 20 times more pollution than newer models in good working order. Report smoking vehicles and suspected air pollution violations by calling 1-800-CUT-SMOG.
4) Vehicles in the Southland traveled 336 million miles in 200, and the increased congestion slowed travel to an average of 38 mph on freeways and arterial streets. Help cut pollution by driving less. Consider carpooling to work one day a week or more. Combine shopping errands into one trip or shop by phone, mail or the Internet. Also drive smart by avoiding “jack rabbit” starts, obeying the speed limit and using cruise control to maintain a steady speed.
5) Dry cleaners in the region emit about 850 tons a year of a toxic chemical called perchloroethylene. Try non-toxic alternatives to dry cleaning such as professional wet cleaning.
6) During the energy crisis, Californians did a better than expected job at conservation. If you haven’t already, choose from the many options available to conserve energy—and save money—such as using compact fluorescent light bulbs, using the microwave to cook small meals and buying energy-efficient appliances when you replace old ones.
7) Painting homes and other structures causes more than 50 tons per day of smog-forming pollutants—five times the amount from all the oil refineries in the South Coast of California. Read paint labels and choose coatings that contain little or no smog-forming pollutants, identified as volatile organic compounds or VOCs.
8) Energy needed for summertime air conditioning boosts power plant emissions. Plant a tree to help shad your home and cool it naturally.
9) In one year of operation, one older gasoline-powered lawn mower pollutes as much as a new car driven 86,000 miles. Help cut pollution by purchasing an electric mower when you replace your gasoline-powered model.
10) While many Southern Californians enjoy a summer cookout, traditional barbecues can be a significant source of air pollution. A simple solution is to replace your old barbecue with a natural gas grill. Some local utilities even offer rebates when purchasing gas grills.
we just developed a high technology that convert humindity to a purest drinking water in the market! it's a water dispenser and can be used in offices or residential. is the most GO GREEN technology for water in the world! and the answer to all the problems with not clean drinking water in the poor countries. how long there is humidity, how long there is PURE WATER TO DRINK!!!
Everytime I look around I see waste. Lets get really radical and say there is no oil. What would we have to give up? What could we live without? Why cannot we start to give some of those things now to make all those natural resources last that littel bit longer. The generations that follow us will not have these luxuries so lets start phasing them out. Lets face it, we dont really need them anyway.
My garden is growing, I will be happy to help others in my area get their own garden started. I only own hand tools, but hard work warms the body and the soul. Once your garden is in the ground, I will be happy to help you manage it, and we can share the harvest.
My wife and I bought a house less than 1/2 mile from my place of employment. I often ride my bike to work, but since moving here, we use very little gasoline (less than a tank of gas per month.)
what we see in the world is the unbalance in our human minds: we are so unhealty - it begins to listen to the silence again and to remember that we just take what we need - but we don't know what we need anymore, we are spoiled, the balance is gone.....
earth will survive - we have to reset our global mind and just now it's possible because there is nobody who can say "I didn't know" - we have to tell our children of what we did wrong to break patterns and to develop a new state of consious - we really have to believe what
God, Allah, Great Spirit tell us - true source of everything is love is caring for humanity and mother earth - let go of our egocentric believes which so are founded on fears - we have to learn to listen to the silence again and to see whit our eyes closed to reestablish the true contact with our nature. ourselves and mother earth. than our behaviour can chance......
My boyfriend and I have decided that we need to start doing more NOW. So, three nights a week we turn off all the lights, tv, etc. and enjoy eachothers company. We cook our food by BBQ or just a eat raw meals. Then we read or play games by candle light. This is just a start, we are aiming for 6 nights a week, saving one night for new knowledge and media that will aid us in spreading this change. Imagine if everybody in your town or city started using 1/2 as much energy in thier homes NOW by doing this in the evenings. It would make an incredible difference. Not only in our carbon footprint but also in the quality of our lives. Our families would be closer, we would know eachother better, and to be able to entertain ourselves is a quality that our children are loosing very fast.
Because some financial problems we (me and my parents) can't make this happen this year, but next year, when everything comes back to normal, i'll change the fuel of my car to ethanol, yeah, BRAZILIAN ETHANOL! I know his engine wasn't build to use ethanol, but we don't have enough money to buy a light flex-fuel low cc car... So... My car already is light and low cc, so all i have to do is change his fuel! (Ford Ka 1.0L) 65hp.
