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I just took the Earth Day Challenge and scored 306 under the 340 world average and emit 11.7 tons of Carbon under the 14.3 world average yet I pledged to lower it even more this coming year!

What's your score? What would you pledge to change about your own behavior that would contribute to saving our world for our benefactors?

Go take the challenge and pledge! And tell five of your bosses to do the same! =D

Sign up and start here:
http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/ecp.htm?ver=9&...
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23 responses // Earth Day challenge! Pledge now!

  • #3: "I will turn off the lights if I'm the last one out the door, and turn off any unnecessary lights even if I'm not the last one out"
    #4: "I will use, and encourage my employer to use, video conferencing as an alternative to flight"

    #7: "I will call to stop unnecessary paper mail"

    #8: "I will purchase and begin brewing with reusable filters with my next trip to the store"
    #9: "I will compost my dryer lint"
    #10: "I will place a filled water bottle in my toilet tank"
    #11: "I will remove and throw my bottle cap away before I recycle my plastic bottle"
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  • How about: I will severely curtail my intake of meat, processed, and water intensive foods.
    BlueDotProdux
  • too bad a majority of people in the usa dont care
    riverdeer
  • I can't do anymore! I live in a tiny caravan unless I stop at someone's house, run an old Espcace on human poo, have solar power on the van and take water from my freind's houses and run off...they'd only waste the tank anyway!
    steadward
  • hehe...steadward =D living the bohemian lifestyle eh? must be fun! hehe

    a huge if not the biggest difference would be made if Americans just didn't have to drive gas burning vehicles.

    another part of the perception problem is that most Americans just know it's not generally immediately feasible for most of the population to forgo gas burning engines.

    another part of the problem is plain economics I've begun to think because I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the state accountants who handles adjustments (coding) for the oil and gas industry in my state. They contribute significantly to the state economy; so much that if they didn't we might not be able to afford public education here, she'd suggested. In any case, I'm sure there's an economic entanglement (like any dissolving marriage perhaps) that's hard to get around without some difficult if unpopular choices being made.

    the problem of effectively caring should lead us to do what each of us can (I'm still paying for my car, but I religiously take public transit as well for all my regular commuting...well, usually). but until we have viable solutions from the very corporations enslaving us to utiilize "gassers," most of us will succomb to that pervasive involvement and continue burning.

    Even more important would be developing and providing alternative energies to developing nations so that fossil fuels isn't a temptation. Also telling these developers who keep chopping down our trees by the acres just for a little piece of "heaven"...(they remind me of Jack Black of King Kong who thought for just the price of an admission ticket, a quarter, everyone could see the last untouched piece of the world...) That's the capitalism with no ethics nor responsibility to the future that we should eschew.

    so why do developers continue? why don't auto companies say hey, there's demand hybrids, or other engines when we've clearly seen some engines can run on even water! why??? M-O-N-E-Y....that's why.

    the age old problem that if some people can take advantage of others at virtually any expense, some always will. is that evil? what we call evil??? the problem of evil? ;D iono...
    echoz
  • My only concern with this is the resurgence of Captain Planet.
    AceHardchester
  • adft, no bother!I'm what's calledacheap enviromentlist! I'm not saying youhave tolive in a caravan though, justrun cars on poop, human, cat and dog poo are the bes, from my experiance. Invest and run your home on solar power on the roof, and why not a little wind turbine if it's windy like it is here close to the borders of England and Scotland.

    I've got a big nest egg for a chicken sanctuary in Austrailia now! Hope I can get one soon!
    steadward
  • I got a 230, pippip.
    There is still plenty of stuff I could do...though I have the cynical twinge of a feeling that it won't matter beyond my personally feeling better about the impact I'm making.
    Humdrum
  • echoz...I don't know how, but you just gave me a headache!

    When the daycomes for me and my chickens who are crazy about green take over the world, we'll MAKE allthem companies for carsrun on a better source.....or poo! If they refuse....there's NO answer why they can't!
    steadward
  • i think all this bs comes down to evil, greed and avarice...and most definitely, it give me a headache too.

    If corporations weren't so singularly greedy and more responsible like honest human beings, you'd have your car-poo already steadward. somehow I doubt chickens are going to save the world though... good luck with that.
    echoz
  • Thanls for the luck! But we'vegot it covered, heh, I mean, them chickens don't justemployanybody you know!

    ....so...want to be Chancellor for the UK? I met alady onamessage boardandoffered her, but so long to her, no response! She reckonedI were crazy or something... ourPMtobethere, our head rooster, speaks Spanish....he's from Cuba....interested?
    steadward
  • cockadoodledoo? =P hehehe
    echoz
  • Yes...is that not how the Cubans speak?
    steadward
  • These things always make me feel so guilty and hypocritical.
    RonenA
  • instead of focusing on the extremes, seeming helplessness, and blame, just go and take the test to see where you fair. then make a pledge! not money pledge like PBS but 'a pledge of allegiance' to our life and the life we make. the smallest thing we change can lead to more little advancements and our children (and, hopefully, our friends) will begin doing the same.

    i notice much of the posts in other threads about climate tend to focus on blame and how helpless we are against the machinery of corporate industrial complexes. while that may still be the reality, our connection with our planet can still grow deeper by our every move. and, as a modern westerner, i, too, need to unlearn bad consumption habits.

    please spread the word! show to kids! make that small change. yes, it's a bit of a 'placebo' and we'd feel a bit better about ourselves. but, that's exactly what we all need.

    thanks for participating and i hope we all take part in the solution, however minimal or slow that may be.

    peace on earth starts within.
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  • adft, well, I hope you can get those salar panels andsecure your home some day soon. I partually blame the governents. America and Britain make having homes, or now ANYTHING, is so hard to afford. (Maybe, if they spent less on thier precious food, cleaning and second homes!) So that's why I'm living in a caravan right now.

    Thanks for the luck with my chickens! I've got one at the moment, give others, good homes after staying in mine (when not in the caravan...rarely!)but the Old English GameBantam, Rhoady is mine. I lovechickens, they're so smartand cute....and you can walk them anywhere! Rhoad goes on a cat harness in supermarkets! Security now do nothing but give us the eye, as I could sue them if we were kicked out as they only say no dogs. It's fun!



    steadward
  • You all give me hope.

    Thanks peoples.
    onechance
  • Captain Planet he's our hero gonna cut pollution down to Zero!!!!!!!!!
    amirct3
  • http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp
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    Save the environment... stop eating meat.
    onechance
  • Not buying any food in containers....and not driving (my) car.
    leahl
  • my score was 299 with an 11 carbon output

    i know i could shop and buy locally more often..but the milk there is soo expensive. I pledge to find more options for my home to save energy :)
    lulu81

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