In today’s social-distanced world, we feel that our lifestyle and earth is turning critical in an unimaginable way but the fact is the future earth is going to be much more critical than now; the reason is well known for all of us, “Climate Change”
Climate change is a hazardous situation happening right now, we would have come across various meetings, speeches, which explains on What is Climate change? and how it impacts our world, and also it points us as a source and solution for this critical happening.
Yes, the act of fighting against climate change starts from us, I hope each one of the words in this blog will create self-initiating actions to cool down our planet. Here are the simple 15 things you can do in our everyday routine,, lets go ahead to cool down our dear planet!…
1. Go Solar
The universal source Sun gives you a lot of free energy every day, so let’s start utilizing the power of the sun. As technological researchers have found various methods to solarize every product we use, let’s implement solar units everywhere and for everything in our Home, Office, and Vehicles. The biggest benefit of consuming solar power is that it will greatly reduce the usage of carbon-related energy sources.
2. Reduce HVAC systems
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning are taking a major part in global warming. These systems produce a high number of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) to deplete the earth’s ozone layer. As a first step of overcoming this issue, do consume the foods as soon as possible instead of preserving them in a refrigerator. Construct buildings with natural air vent, cooling roofs and breathe natural air to stay healthy and to save the earth. If usage of ACs and Refrigerators has turned mandate, try to reduce the usage by turning it on only at the need and maintain it properly. Also, do mark your calendar for cleaning HVAC systems every month.
3. Practise Reuse
Make Recycling as a habit, it reduces wastage. On our daily life, wastage creates a huge impact on global warming. It pollutes the land, air, and water. Most of the wastage are created by Electronics and Cloths. It is very easy to recycle electronics and cloths. You can return the repaired electronics to the respective manufacturers helping them to reproduce some new electronics or think out of the box and become an inventor by creating new products from the e-waste.
Clothes are not destroyable things, only when if we put them inland.
- If clothes do not fit our shape then try to give it to the right person
- If clothes start fading try to manage it
Wash them softly for a long life and use less detergent. Buy new clothes only when the old one is torn.
4. Observe every drop
Water scarcity is the ultimate factor in global warming and climate change. Wasting each drop of water has great value behind them. Though industries play a huge role in water wastage, residential wastage also has a notable contribution.
In our home, for our daily usage, we use a large amount of water for washing clothes, vessels, and vehicles. We can focus on reducing the usage in these daily activities.
- For cloth washing, use detergents which consume less amount of water and recycle the water for next use
- After vessel washing, you can direct the water to plants and garden, as it will also reduce the usage of water for gardening
- Many innovative products can be deployed in the vehicle cleaning activity, such as vacuum cleaners and sprayers which helps hugely by reducing the usage of water.
5. Hang dry instead of Dryers
Though technological advancements help us in our daily life activities, equipment like cloth dryers emits a large amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And it is not so good for the environment. We can move back to the good old habits of hanging washed clothes in the backyard and let them dry in natural air.
6. Create a mini forest
Create a garden by gathering neighbours and town peoples and plant saplings in a spaced manner. It just gives a new atmosphere and also more beneficial in terms of shadow, and fresh air. Though it looks like a tedious and time-consuming activity, it is a small initiative for forestation. Let’s try and forest our town.
7. Prefer non-wood products
Massive amounts of trees are being cut down for home furniture, building materials, and household articles. Things made up of wood gives us a classical and retro effect. But a single wooden chair is made using a 15 years old tree. When you calculate the amount of wood used in a home, it will be equivalent to more than hundreds of trees
8. Calculate Carbon Print
This is a simple step to contribute our support to reduce climate change. You can use carbon readers to calculate the daily carbon emission from your home apparatus and vehicles. Observing this and setting up as a daily activity will help you to set a self-target to reduce the emission day by day.
9. Reduce food waste
Preparing food will consume a certain amount of water. When the food turns into waste, the water been consumed also turns useless. Food wastages emit a greenhouse gas called methane. It is so harmful to the atmosphere. So, the best practice is to prepare food for the required quantity and let’s not make food to reach the waste bin.
10. Become an Eco-friend
Start farming to fulfill your own needs. Agriculture will make the atmosphere fresh and green Though practically, farming is not so simple and easy to work on, instead of land farming give a try to vertical farming or terrace farming. So, start farming at your home and become an eco-friendly contributor to this earth.
11. De-modernise the transportation
We all are at the age of traveling at speed of light. We are concerned about reaching a particular place at a planned time but the population of vehicles been used will take global warming to its peak. Vehicles are holding first place in carbon emission. There are a lot of ways to reduce carbon emission from vehicles few are,
- Start walking for meter travel distance
- Start cycling for small moves
- Use on-demand transport applications
- Utilize public transit for long travel
- Fix carbon reducers in every vehicle
12. Take care of the vehicle’s health
A vehicle in a bad condition will lead to high carbon emission. Try to use clean fuel and maintain the vehicle in a good condition by planning your vehicle services.
13. Hold own shopping bag
One of the biggest enemies for the environment is plastic. The usage of plastic will pollute the environment. Nowadays, plastic usage has increased a lot and recycling is also reduced. So, let’s go green and use cloth bags or some degradable and recyclable bags for all our shopping and daily usages. And don’t forget to hold a bag when you go for shopping tomorrow.
14. Electric vehicle’ ing
The first and foremost reason for climate change is the high population of fossil fuel-driven vehicles. The major reason for climate change is the exhaustion of carbon. Vehicles are taking a major part in carbon exhaustion. So, switching into electric vehicles will tremendously help us by reducing the carbon level in the atmosphere.
15. Plant a tree
It is a compulsory action to solve the problem, also it is easy too. The world human population is around 800cr and think if at least 500cr people plant a tree will make a great change in the earth. So, we must contribute one tree every year and make the environment green.
All the steps are actionable only when every human shows concern about global warming. Instead of blaming others and the government, let’s take our own responsibility to take care of the earth’s health.
Go Green!
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