Ways To Prevent Global Warming:
Four Steps
There are many ways to prevent global warming and I've included four below that are simple and easy for you to implement right away. All four of these steps focus on reducing your energy consumption in order to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases you are personally responsible for generating. When you look at this list you may think to yourself that these things don't have a big impact, but read on.
Four Easy Ways to Prevent Global Warming
Step 1: Minimize Drafts In Your Home
One of the simplest and easiest ways to prevent global warming is to make sure all your windows and doors are draft free. Small gaps in your windows and doors can cause you to consume a lot more energy than you really need to in order to heat and cool your home. To make your home free from drafts wait until a cold day, then hold your hand along the edges of your doors and windows feeling for cold air. If you detect drafts, buy weather stripping from your local hardware store and install it wherever it is needed.
Step 2: Reduce Wasted Electricity
Eliminating phantom loads can save a lot more electricity-- and CO2 emissions-- than you might imagine. A phantom load is caused when an electrical appliance draws electricity when it isn't in use. Amazingly about 11% of residential electricity consumption is used by "phantom loads." For example, a DVD player has an electrically lighted display that stays on even when you turn the power off. An easy way to eliminate these phantom loads is to plug your computers, printers, scanners, DVD players, televisions, etc. into multi-plug electrical surge protectors. Then, with one flick of the switch, you can make sure that the appliances plugged into your surge protectors are drawing no electricity at all.
Step 3: Use more efficient light bulbs
If every American household replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent one, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, then over the life of the bulbs 90 billion pounds of CO2 emission would be prevented from going into the atmosphere. This is like taking 6.3 million cars off the road!
Step 4: Turn Down Your Water Heater.
Just a 10° F reduction on your water heater thermostat can reduce 3% to 5% of your total energy consumption. Most of us have our hot water heaters turned up far too high. You'll have plenty of hot water if you set your water heater between 110-120°F.
Spread the Word: Lead by Example!
Your actions won't have an impact, unless you get others to make these changes as well. But, by making these simple changes you show the people around you ways to prevent global warming by leading by example.
By being the change you wish to see, you greatly increase your credibility in the eyes of your peers, which makes it much easier for you to enroll them in helping to prevent global warming with you.
Help Friends Reduce Their Impact
Share this article with your friends, and explain to your friends how you've made these simple changes. Be sure to offer your friends help and support in making these changes themselves to make it extra easy for them to prevent global warming with you.
Help your friends feel the benefits of these four simple steps. When you tell your friends about this article and the changes you’ve made, be sure to explain all the benefits you've received from doing so. The more your friends can feel the emotional and financial benefits you've experienced from preventing global warming, they more likely they are to join you!
Lead by example, and help others to do the same!
The cumulative effect will be significant if you put dedicated effort into changing yourself while supporting those around you to do the same.
Don't delay. Be the change you wish to see.
Implement these four steps so you can help in preventing global warming today, and then get others to join you in your efforts!
