Where to start ?

Well here it is, our latest adventure in the blogging world...We decided to do a blog that would venture off into different directions ( depending on whatever issues catch our eye at the moment) and hopefully it will be interesting, as well as helpful. Last week we went to see the Movie " An Inconvenient Truth" It provided some very eye opening statistics about exactly what we are doing to our planet, so that's what I'll start out with . If anyone has any comments on this or other subjects they'd like me to research, drop me a line....but for today....

Global warming, pollution, toxins etc are scary things and most people would rather deny or put off doing something about them. Truly, it's much easier to just not think about these things, but if each one of us doesn't at least try to step up to the plate & do our part we are in for some really drastic changes to the world our kids inherit, whether we admit it or not. Scientists have concluded that if global warming continues, we can expect that...

-Ocean levels could rise by over 20 ft. with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica. changing our coast lines forever !

-Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
-Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
-The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.
-More than a million species could be extinct by 2050.

It sounds scary BUT we can each make a difference without much sacrifice to our way of life if we choose too. We just each have to make the commitment to choose the health of our planet. Really people, since it's the only planet we can live on, what other choice is there ?
So, what can we do ?

• Replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (cfl). CFLs use 60% less energy than regular bulbs. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. If every family made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds
• Use a clothesline instead of a dryer whenever possible.You can save 700 lbs. of carbon dioxide when you air dry your clothes for 6 months out of the year. ( and they smell great too ! )
• Turning off your TV, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you’re not using them will save thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

There are so many more things we can do that are virtually painless, so why not make a start everyone. For more ideas see the link to " An Inconvenient Truth" (where I got these from ) or wait until my next blog. Over & out people.