- Use a pressure cooker to cook your food 70% faster, so it reduces the amount of energy used. You can cook food like beans, stews, tough cuts of meat, lentils, artichokes, squash, soups, mashed potatoes, whole chicken, or homemade stocks a whole lot faster. You can brown, boil, steam, poach, steam roast, braise, stew, roast food, and even bake with the newer ones.
- Green roof- helps moderate the temperature, cleans the air, reduces amount of rainwater runoff that could get toxic and pollution, offers cooling and insulation, and a beautiful landscape view.
- Reclaimed/recycled material- there will be a reduction of waste from the making of new materials, therefore, energy is saved and less pollution.
- Use LEDs- they use 75% less energy and last 25% longer than regular lighting bulbs.
- Start composting- since food waste makes up most of the methane in landfills, composting it prevents methane and greenhouse gases warming the planet. How to compost link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wzfyksYETA Also make sure you turn the compost to keep air flow and easy composting of all the products. Compost can be turned to fertilizer!
- Become a vegetarian or limit out red meat. Not eating beef reduces carbon emissions as much as giving up your car!
- Try to limit your electronic usage by doing other things to entertain you. Everything you do like a text message comes from a data center controlling it, which needs a lot of energy.
- Turn off your lights in a room when you're not going to be in it for a long time- this, everyone should know! With that, less energy being used, less carbon emissions, saving the world!
- Try to get eco friendly toilets; they reduce your bill sometimes by $90 and they save 13,000 gallons of water being used.
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AuthorHi I am Breah and a freshman in highschool! Please check out my whole website, I give great tips to help the environment, so you can live happily and future generations will live well too! Thank you for reading my blog and helping the earth. You are awesome! Also, my way of helping the earth is not the "perfect or right way" to do it. Don't worry that you're not doing enough, find your own unique way to impact the world. "Be the change you want to see."- Gandhi Archives
March 2020
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