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Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Do you feel that summers are getting hotter every year? Well it is not just your imagination; temperatures are rising every year at an alarming rate. And the main culprits are greenhouse gases.

Greenhouse gases trap the sun’s heat in the atmosphere instead of letting it escape again. This leads to a term we are all now most familiar with – climate change.

Some naturally existing gases like water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane have greenhouse properties. These provide the earth with the warmth it needs.

But since the industrial revolution the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up by a whopping 30 per cent, trapping more heat than necessary.

We release these gases every time we burn petrol by running a car, burn coal or even run the AC longer than needed.

Greenhouse gases can be reduced by planting trees because trees absorb these gases and while you’re at it, recycle paper and save existing trees as well.

To do your bit for the environment, just remember the four Rs. They are:

  • REFUSE plastic bags at the grocery store
  • REDUCE packaging by reusing bags
  • RE-USE old appliances by repairing them and giving them away instead of throwing them away
  • RECYCLE newspapers and containers.

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    Go Green

    Sunday, December 13th, 2009
    So you started your day with some brown bread, then went shopping for some veggies – healthy food to keep you feeling well. But consider this: each plastic bag that you used will survive for a million years and keep releasing harmful gases that cause global warming.

    And plastic bags are not the only culprits.

    Here are a few facts for you to remember:

  • Disposable diapers take between 500 and 600 years to degrade
  • A can of your favourite soft drink takes 200 to 500 years
  • And we cannot even begin to calculate how long a glass bottle or styrofoam glass takes So do we give up everything then? No. But perhaps it is better to live by the rule that if you do dump something on the earth, let it be something that degrades at least in your lifetime. For instance, a cotton rag takes 5 months to degrade, a banana peel takes about three to four weeks and a paper bag takes about 5 months.The best option though is to take your own cloth bag; it takes you a minute more, but saves the earth millions of years of hard work. So do your bit to help save the environment.

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