Akeim Lopez Consumer

To help improve climate change at home, you can participate in many things that can be useful and a set a good example for others to follow. For example, change 5 lights. Replace your conventional bulbs lights with bulbs that have the Energy Star and you will help the environment while saving money on energy bills. If every household in the U.S. took this one simple action we would prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to emissions from nearly 10 million cars. Another way to improve the climate in your home is using heat and cool smartly. for example, like cleaning air fliters regularly and having your heating and cooling equipment tuned annually by licensed contractor can save energy and increase comfort at home, and at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissons. Another way is by reducing, resusing, and recycling. Recycling your newspapers, beverage containers, papers and other goods and improve the climate. Saving Water is very important and could save you alot of energy around the house. For example, turning off the water while shaving and brushing your teeth. Also, dont use your toilet as a waste basket, you waste water everytime you flush. Leaking toilets can waste up to 200 gallons of water per day. Be sure to repair your toilets and faucet leaks right away if there damage. In addition to improve your climate at home, you can also improve the neighborhood. For example, Driving. Instead of using gas guzzling cars, you should purchase a fuel-efficient car aka a "Hybrid" car. Also, instead of driving, go out for a nice run, walk, or jog, if you do you'll be saving tons of carbon dioxide a year. In the backyard, you can use a push mower unlike a electric or gas mower. A push mower reduce grass clippings quicker and faster.

Another way to improve the neighborhood is by eating and growing organic foods. Organic foods have chemical pesticides that are used to kill to kill pest, they also kill off microorganisms that keep carbon contained in then soil. In addition, its good to eat locally grown food. Also eat fruits and vegetables in season. That saves the enormous transportation cost. Plant your own vegetable garden, that way you could healthy for free everyday. Eating Fruits not only is healthy for you, but it helps the community and the climate and the animals that get killed for you to eat meat. Its better to live life healthy, because your living good for you and setting a good example for your community to grow and eat good everyday. By eating organic foods, your saving the the carbon dioxide and having it contained in the soil.

Another way to help out the climate change is being a minimalist. Every time you buy something, energy has gone into getting that product for you. So the less you buy, the more energy you save. Try to live on providing for yourself and not by buying everything to survive everyday in life. Plant smartly, recycle, reuse items, eat more organic foods, and stop buying non important things that you don't need to live on.

In Conclusion, if we live and eat healthy, we can save the climate change from getting worse and worse by the year. We should start now so we have less to worry about in the future. Then we wont have nobody to blame when the world starts to change drastically.

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Buy Nothing Day is an international days of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. Typically celebrated the Friday after the American thanksgiving in North America and the following day internationally. The dates are November 25 and 26 respectively. It was founded in Vancouver by an artist name Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by ad busters magazine, based in Canada. The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Mexico in September 1992 "as a day for society to examine the issue of over consumption. In the year 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving Day also called "Black Friday". Black Friday is known as one of the top ten busiest shopping days in the United States. Its one of the busiest days, because things are alot more cheaper than they are on a normal shopping day. However, buy nothing day outside of north america and Israel, is on the following Saturday.

On Buy Nothing Day, people do other activities besides shop, they exactly buy nothing. They go hiking to celebrate the earth and nature. Buy nothing day paddle, people paddle along the San Francisco waterfront. It is promoted by the Bay Area Kayakers to kayak along the notoriously consumptive San Francisco waterfront.

David P

There are a lot of things can happen to our economy because of climate change. Because of climate changes in the world, there is potential impact on our personal economy. The personal impact on the economy is that we will have to spend much more money to deal with everything that is happening with the climate change occurring, and also using money towards the need of climate changes could affect us a lot because we are losing money on something we can save by not letting the climate change occur. In life we will have some economic challenges or difficulties that could go way beyond agriculture and food production. Because of this, it will cause some of the greatest problems and damages due to climate change. In example, the heat related illness and deaths could possibly affect the medical system and labor market. The climate changes will cause major floods, which may cause some damage in some areas like New York City the people say. New York City is a large Market, Affecting New York can affect the economy badly, and cause another Economic break down. There are storms that are called 100-year storm because it passes every 100 years. It is soon to be occurring as of every 10 years by late in this century due to climate changes. Which will affect places like the lower Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Nassau County. These places would experience an increase frequency for floods. All this climate changes would affect transportations. It will affect transportations including tunnels, subways, and also airports during these bad events. The government is expected to face some major challenges with the economy, because about 90 percent of the insured catastrophe losses worldwide are weather related every year. They are expectingenergy consumption to change as the demand for the electricity rises up to be able to cool down some houses and different indoor places. Some people are demanding for heating. The heating uses natural gas and fuel oils. Due to climate change, scientist says that we should expect a lot of heavy rain, a lot of storms, and we should also expect sea-level to rise a huge percent. Also there will be more hurricanes in some parts of the world. As well as more wild fires in some other parts are expected to occur in nearly all forms of transport. This includes the airports, roads, rail lines and tunnels, according to the report that people stated. The climate will have major impact on transportations. They say that the Gulf Coast is responsible for the 30 percent of the nations crude oil production and also 20 percent of its natural gas production. Which it may occur disruptions in energy production from severe weather like strong hurricanes.             Also all these damages that could be occurring to certain places will affect some places more than others for example. The United States is a rich and wealthy place. These poor conditions won’t affect them as bad because they have enough money to recover. It is unfair to the other places that will be affected more than others because those are the ones who are the last ones to blame on the cause of the climate change, and they will be getting hit the hardest without no responsibility I have learned in my Economics class before. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/the-economic-impact-of-climate-change/http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/the-economic-impact-of-climate-change/

Solutions You Can Engage In

       Over the years the community has made it very easy to pollute the Earth. Their simplest everyday tasks are harming the world. Though its not purposely done, no one can help themselves because this damage has been added to their daily routines. In order to construct an intact planet, everyone must change their lifestyles. As we may know, many do not notice that they are creating mischief because these are standard actions for them. We need to help everyone adapt to a new form of life, so that future generations can call these refinements normal.  
       One solution society can engage in is helping preserve hygienic water. There are many ways to do this. Lakes and Wetlands are sacred for drinking water or food for many animals and insects. (1)Protect resources by cleaning leaves away from gutters, also by discarding of toxic wastes properly i.e. paint, gasoline, oil. Letting dishes air dry, running clothes washers only when full, shortening your shower time by a minute or two, collecting water from roof to water plants, and fixing leaks in your home helps save water in abundance.(2)Conserving water allows less energy to be used.
       Saving energy has become very easy to do, with the alternatives that have been created. Using wind energy can generate electricity and pump water, also solar energy can be used for heat and light.(4)You can save energy at home by purchasing fluorescent light bulbs, insulating your walls and ceilings, and by lowering your thermostat.(3) Saving energy on a regular basis like walking, riding a bike, and taking a train can help majorly. If the entire population engages in these solutions, future lifestyles would be balanced.

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1.http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module12/Biologicalfunctionsofwetlands.htm http://nyserda.ny.gov/multifamily
2.http://www.wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve/index.php
3.http://www.energysavers.gov/renewable_energy/
4.http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/20things.htm

Impact on home and school community

-Floods hit different countries last year. Floods in Kilosa, Dodoma and landslide in Same; floods in China, Brazil and other parts of the world have caused severe damage on lives and infrastructure.

-The impacts of climate change on boys’ and girls’ accesses to quality education have also not yet received much attention, nor have the possibilities of education to support initiatives for sustainability. We should note that impacts of climate change have more effects on women and girls life than men.

-Heat-trapping gases emitted by power plants, automobiles, deforestation and other sources are warming up the planet. In fact, the five hottest years on record have all occurred since 1997 and the 10 hottest since 1990, including the warmest years on record – 2005 and 2010.                                                                                                            http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=30822
High temperatures are to blame for an increase in heat-related deaths and illness, rising seas, increased storm intensity, and many of the other dangerous consequences of climate change.

-During the 20th century, the Earth’s average temperature rose one degree Fahrenheit to its highest level in the past four centuries – believed to be the fastest rise in a thousand years.

Problem Of Climate Change

The world is warming up. As we burn up the planet’s coal, oil and gas reserves, and cut down its remaining forests, greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere. The delicate balance of atmospheric gases that sustains life is thickening, trapping more and more heat and irreversibly changing our world.