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Earth Day
The document emphasizes the importance of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22nd, and encourages daily environmental consciousness. It provides practical tips for individuals to reduce their ecological footprint, such as walking more, turning off unused appliances, recycling, and minimizing waste. The document also highlights the significant increase in Earth Day participation, from 20 million people in 1970 to 500 million in 2010.
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Earth Day
- 1. Time to dosomething!
- 3. What are thesepictures trying to tell you?
- 5. Earth Day ison April 22nd , but really you should think about the Earth every day! The first Earth Day was in 1970. The number of people who celebrated Earth Day in 1970 was 20 million people, in 2010, the number of people who celebrated it was 500 million. Let’s join the fight!
- 7. Walk more, notonly does it keep the air clean but it can keep you fit! Turn it off if you’re not using it: lights, TV, computer, and more. Buy more things made in Taiwan (food and other). Plant a tree and keep more plants in your home, balcony and/or roof.
- 8. Don’t litter! Whenyou throw your garbage on the ground it often ends up in rivers and the ocean. Recycle paper, plastic, metals, and left over food garbage. Bring your own bag when you go shopping. Bring your own water bottle when you buy a tea from outside. Bring your own containers when buying take-out food.
- 9. Turn thewater off once you wet your toothbrush. Eat less meat. When washing the dishes, have one spot for washing and another for rinsing. Don’t keep the water running to rinse the dishes.
- 11. More recycling and conservingideas. Would you like to make any of these? Why? Can you think of anything else you could make to help recycle and conserve resources?
- 12. Did you knowplastic bottles can take hundreds or thousands of years to decompose? Now this would be one STRONG broom.
Editor's Notes
- #10 On average, it takes 1,790 litres of water to grow 1kg of wheat compared with 9,680 litres of water for 1kg of beef. 6. Put plastic bottles or float booster in your toilet tank To cut down on water waste, put an inch or two of sand or pebbles inside each of two plastic bottles to weigh them down. Fill the bottles with water, screw the lids on, and put them in your toilet tank, safely away from the operating mechanisms. Or, buy an inexpensive tank bank or float booster. This may save ten or more gallons of water per day. Be sure at least 3 gallons of water remain in the tank so it will flush properly. If there is not enough water to get a proper flush, users will hold the lever down too long or do multiple flushes to get rid of waste. Two flushings at 1.4 gallons is worse than a single 2.0 gallon flush. A better suggestion would be to buy an adjustable toilet flapper that allow for adjustment of their per flush use. Then the user can adjust the flush rate to the minimum per flush setting that achieves a single good flush each time. For new installations, consider buying "low flush" toilets, which use 1 to 2 gallons per flush instead of the usual 3 to 5 gallons. Replacing an 18 liter per flush toilet with an ultra-low volume (ULV) 6 liter flush model represents a 70% savings in water flushed and will cut indoor water use by about 30%