Planting trees are a great way to help do your part to save the environment. Trees absorb a great deal of carbon dioxide, so planting more trees in your garden will not only save the environment, but also make your house cooler so that you don't have to switch on the air-con! It's a win-win situation for everyone!
So pick a day, go to the garden shop or somewhere where you can get a tree (please do not dig one up from the roadside...) and plant a tree with your family! It can be quite fun to have your own tree to take care of and grow. Split your garden into patches, one for each member of your family, and get everyone to plant and 'design' their own patch! That's another fun suggestion.
It's a great family bonding activity and it's a great way to teach your siblings more about saving the Earth. So go and try it! I know I will...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
World Wildlife Fund
Hi everyone!
The members of the GT 094 have recently signed up for The World Wildlife Fund (see "More of that Good Stuff") and, well, its really cool and it helps to raise awareness about Climate Change. I suggest that when you have the time, you go and check it out. Thanks!
Ankita
The members of the GT 094 have recently signed up for The World Wildlife Fund (see "More of that Good Stuff") and, well, its really cool and it helps to raise awareness about Climate Change. I suggest that when you have the time, you go and check it out. Thanks!
Ankita
Friday, October 17, 2008
You
Why do you think you were put on this planet?
To slowly destroy it by not caring enough?
To ignore people who tell you to conserve, recycle, reuse etc.?
To not listen to what we and hundreds of other people who do care enough are telling you?
No matter who you are, you have to believe that you have a purpose in this life - otherwise you'd have been made a little micro-organism or something. And even those have a purpose unique to them.
You have a purpose. Everybody, everything does and as an inhabitant of Earth, your purpose is to make sure that it stays alive so it can serve its purpose as our home planet.
Think about it.
To slowly destroy it by not caring enough?
To ignore people who tell you to conserve, recycle, reuse etc.?
To not listen to what we and hundreds of other people who do care enough are telling you?
No matter who you are, you have to believe that you have a purpose in this life - otherwise you'd have been made a little micro-organism or something. And even those have a purpose unique to them.
You have a purpose. Everybody, everything does and as an inhabitant of Earth, your purpose is to make sure that it stays alive so it can serve its purpose as our home planet.
Think about it.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Open those eyes! (just not so literally...)
Hi everyone! Today I was just browsing the bookstore, and I found this wonderful, horribly amazing book called "Planet in Peril!" (part of the Horrible Geography Handbooks series). It's a real eye-opener, in a horribly fun way. I think it's the perfect handbook for all the school children in the world, and plus: it's environment-friendly! I got it caus I think it's a wonderful way to wake my sisters up and tell them straight in the face that we're heading for danger. Just badger, beg, bribe or blackmail (I'm not being serious about this one) your parents to get it for you at the nearest bookstore NOW. It's HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY ME, so you know you'd better go get it. It contains all the horrible facts about the planet that you never wanted to know, and some handy-dandy tips to fix the Earth.
So go get it! And if your pleading doesn't work, blackmail them with a layer of guilt (but please, go easy on them... if you want the planet to die at their hands! (just kidding on this one too (but you know it's kinda true...)
So go get it! And if your pleading doesn't work, blackmail them with a layer of guilt (but please, go easy on them... if you want the planet to die at their hands! (just kidding on this one too (but you know it's kinda true...)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A question for you...
Here's a really good question for you to answer: "Do you care about the Earth?"
Your reaction is bound to be: (scoff) Duh! Of course I do. Something along the lines of that.
But do you REALLY care?
Do you...
1. Hesitate before throwing that used wad of paper into the rubbish bin, then toss it instead into the nearest recycling bin?
2. Just stand and daydream under the stream of water after bathing, just wanting to relax? (You'd better say no for this one!!!)
#Adding on to point 2. do you shower or fill a whole bath tub with water and bathe? Please shower!#
3. Ever take a cab instead of public transport? It may give your tired legs a treat because you don't have to remain standing for so long, but how are you treating the Earth?
Do you consider yourself environmentally conscious? Did you do so until you put yourself to the test above?
All humans are bound to judge their standards against EVERYBODY ELSE. That means, "Oh, but my friends are get their parents to drive them to the shopping centre, so I guess it's OK for me to do the same.".
Let me ask you a very simple question (this post is all about questions!): How does your friends' asking their parents to drive them there make it acceptable for you to do the same?
Don't you think that you're just making a very, very dumb excuse for yourself?
It really pains me to know that there are people around this place who think like that. Physical weariness is only a small price to pay for all the weariness people like that are causing Mother Earth. She's been around a whole lot longer than you've been, and she's been putting up with us, humans, ruining her for centuries. CENTURIES.
Ask yourself one last question: Would you do that, or would you ask these destroyers-of-nature to stop? Only Mother Earth can't ask us herself.
So we're doing it for her.
Please listen.
Your reaction is bound to be: (scoff) Duh! Of course I do. Something along the lines of that.
But do you REALLY care?
Do you...
1. Hesitate before throwing that used wad of paper into the rubbish bin, then toss it instead into the nearest recycling bin?
2. Just stand and daydream under the stream of water after bathing, just wanting to relax? (You'd better say no for this one!!!)
#Adding on to point 2. do you shower or fill a whole bath tub with water and bathe? Please shower!#
3. Ever take a cab instead of public transport? It may give your tired legs a treat because you don't have to remain standing for so long, but how are you treating the Earth?
Do you consider yourself environmentally conscious? Did you do so until you put yourself to the test above?
All humans are bound to judge their standards against EVERYBODY ELSE. That means, "Oh, but my friends are get their parents to drive them to the shopping centre, so I guess it's OK for me to do the same.".
Let me ask you a very simple question (this post is all about questions!): How does your friends' asking their parents to drive them there make it acceptable for you to do the same?
Don't you think that you're just making a very, very dumb excuse for yourself?
It really pains me to know that there are people around this place who think like that. Physical weariness is only a small price to pay for all the weariness people like that are causing Mother Earth. She's been around a whole lot longer than you've been, and she's been putting up with us, humans, ruining her for centuries. CENTURIES.
Ask yourself one last question: Would you do that, or would you ask these destroyers-of-nature to stop? Only Mother Earth can't ask us herself.
So we're doing it for her.
Please listen.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Ignorance is Bliss? I don't think so...
Well, there are so many things happening now that I hardly know what to write about. As I sit in front of this computer screen, my fingers occasionally moving towards a letter and then withdrawing, and my eyes blankly fixed on the screen, my mind is filled to the brim with worries.
I am sure everyone who has seen this blog will know by now the dangers we face. Then why such ignorance? Is it the inability to act? Or simply laziness?
While we sit in our homes everyday, enjoying the air-conditioning, animals are dying. The ozone layer is depleting. The Earth is dying. Our home is being destroyed. We are destroying ourselves.
Thats right. Humankind is slowly rotting away without us even realizing it. Can you imagine the universe, but empty? The earth barren, scorched. The very earth that was once teeming with life.
How can I put all of this so that it will get to you? Why is only comfort important? Is this what humans have evolved into? A lazy, sloppy and ignorant creature which cares only about itself and does not realize that it is not the only living being on earth? We here are working so hard to get the world going to save itself from DEATH and all public does is look at stuff, be interested for a while and then forget completely about it. Why so? Its not only about you, you know! Come on! Help us for heavens sake! Be at least a little considerate to those who are already trying!
Now, if you say that there are already people doing stuff, so we don't need to, its not true. If we can leave it all to the people who are doing stuff, then it would be absolutely just to say that the Earth belongs to them only, and we should just leave.
I think we are all being lazy and ignorant. Save the Earth and prove me wrong!
I am sure everyone who has seen this blog will know by now the dangers we face. Then why such ignorance? Is it the inability to act? Or simply laziness?
While we sit in our homes everyday, enjoying the air-conditioning, animals are dying. The ozone layer is depleting. The Earth is dying. Our home is being destroyed. We are destroying ourselves.
Thats right. Humankind is slowly rotting away without us even realizing it. Can you imagine the universe, but empty? The earth barren, scorched. The very earth that was once teeming with life.
How can I put all of this so that it will get to you? Why is only comfort important? Is this what humans have evolved into? A lazy, sloppy and ignorant creature which cares only about itself and does not realize that it is not the only living being on earth? We here are working so hard to get the world going to save itself from DEATH and all public does is look at stuff, be interested for a while and then forget completely about it. Why so? Its not only about you, you know! Come on! Help us for heavens sake! Be at least a little considerate to those who are already trying!
Now, if you say that there are already people doing stuff, so we don't need to, its not true. If we can leave it all to the people who are doing stuff, then it would be absolutely just to say that the Earth belongs to them only, and we should just leave.
I think we are all being lazy and ignorant. Save the Earth and prove me wrong!
It's getting hot in here!
With the ice melting by the second, it's no surpise that the polar bears are threatened. As Samantha has said before, the bears rely heavily on the ice for hunting and for a home. Without the ice, they have no food and no place to rest, which means they have to swim a very long distance.
So shouldn't we be doing something to this from happening anymore?
Friday, October 10, 2008
Tigers In Danger
I realize we haven't talked about tigers yet (sorry if that sounded like we're trying to talk about every single species ever to walk the face of this Earth). So I went looking around, and look what I dug up. This really is shocking news, at least to me. I would think that people in governments would go to every effort all the time to prevent such a thing, but there it is, it's happened.
This came directly from a report by WWF (that's World Wildlife Fund, for all you people out there who don't normally read stuff like this...
"In the first-ever comprehensive report on captive tiger regulations across the United States, wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC and WWF found huge gaps in U.S. regulations for tigers held in captivity-which could make the big cats a target for illegal trade."
Illegal trade?! Honestly, I am surprised this happened, shocked, flabbergasted - I don't have the right words.
And look at what's become of it.
"Tiger populations are fast declining worldwide due to poaching for illegal trade, and habitat and prey loss. One of the leading threats to the species' survival is the global demand for their bones, skins and other body parts for use in fashion and some traditional forms of Asian medicine. Current estimates indicate that there are more than 5,000 tigers in captivity in the United States, more than exist in the wild."
Sorry, that was considerably longer, but you get the point, right? Good. Keep it in your brain.
Now, I don't want to bring any government officials into this matter, but... If you are one of those people in the US government department that handles this kind of thing... Don't you think you should care more? Please, don't spend all your time keeping other matters in check.
This incident happened in August this year. I don't know what's become of it but I pray that the problem's been fixed, sparing the lives of quite a considerable number of tigers.
This came directly from a report by WWF (that's World Wildlife Fund, for all you people out there who don't normally read stuff like this...
"In the first-ever comprehensive report on captive tiger regulations across the United States, wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC and WWF found huge gaps in U.S. regulations for tigers held in captivity-which could make the big cats a target for illegal trade."
Illegal trade?! Honestly, I am surprised this happened, shocked, flabbergasted - I don't have the right words.
And look at what's become of it.
"Tiger populations are fast declining worldwide due to poaching for illegal trade, and habitat and prey loss. One of the leading threats to the species' survival is the global demand for their bones, skins and other body parts for use in fashion and some traditional forms of Asian medicine. Current estimates indicate that there are more than 5,000 tigers in captivity in the United States, more than exist in the wild."
Sorry, that was considerably longer, but you get the point, right? Good. Keep it in your brain.
Now, I don't want to bring any government officials into this matter, but... If you are one of those people in the US government department that handles this kind of thing... Don't you think you should care more? Please, don't spend all your time keeping other matters in check.
This incident happened in August this year. I don't know what's become of it but I pray that the problem's been fixed, sparing the lives of quite a considerable number of tigers.
A brighter look.
Hi everyone, this is Rachel! Recently, Anki and I worked on a new look for the blog, and after she designed it and I put it up, we finally did it! (in a timeframe of, well, about... 4 hours?) We hope it will be, how do I put this... more pleasing to the eyes?
I hope this inspires you to give the Earth a makeover of her own... take away the grey clouds of pollution, the yellow of dried, dead grass, the millions of corpses lying around after a devasting incident... and fix the hole in her oxone layer.
Give the planet a brighter look. Just like we did to this blog.
Hi...
Hi All!
Me watched interesting documentary last night called....(drumroll please)
"THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH"
It was very interesting. Al-Gore, who was a former minister/president/something like that, had filmed a documentary about Global Warming and Climate Change. You should watch it somehow. How?
AHA! YOUTUBE!
THREE CHEERS FOR YOUTUBE!
HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!
HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!
HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!
Me watched interesting documentary last night called....(drumroll please)
"THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH"
It was very interesting. Al-Gore, who was a former minister/president/something like that, had filmed a documentary about Global Warming and Climate Change. You should watch it somehow. How?
AHA! YOUTUBE!
THREE CHEERS FOR YOUTUBE!
HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!
HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!
HIP HIP, HOORAY!!!
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