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Here are 10 things that I did myself to stop Climate Change Pollution; You can too:
Think about planting trees and support organizations who do this work. It is the most natural way to sequester climate change pollution. But planting trees and continuing to pollute at even higher levels is not a solution.
Even though people say voting is a waste of time, register to vote independent, green party, or peoples party and vote only for candidates who support the green new deal and are not owned by the fossil fuel industry, like the dems or repubs. We have come to understand that they cannot be counted upon to save the planet no matter what bull shit they feed to us.
It is up to each one of us to do everything we can to avoid climate change extinction, which is happening all around us. We support Friday’s for Future Strikes and joined Extinction Rebellion but we also go to the protests, since 2013 100% gasless, pollution free. You see, we did all the things on the list below and are walking the walk. You can too.
0. Stop eating fish all together. Commercial fishing is killing dolphins, whales and sharks, killing the oceans. SEASPIRACY | Netflix | OFFICIAL WEBSITE https://www.seaspiracy.org/
0.1 Stop eating factory farmed anything. The open sewer run off from these farms is causing dead zones around our coasts.
0.2 Stop using plastic single use items like plastic water bottles, knives, forks, spoons and plastic packaging. Get a permanent water bottle and fill it from a secure source. Watch the movie Tapped.http://tappedmovie.com/
1.If you or your parents pay an electric bill, switch your electric source to Clean Choice Energy It is quick and easy and you can do it now. https://cleanchoiceenergy.com/r/ThriveStation.com/
2.Look for VAMPIRE loads – stuff that is always on. Microwave ovens, computers, screens, tv, phone chargers, hot water heater. Get a power strip with an off switch and one by one get all your devices on one. Turn everything off with a single click. This will save you money because you’ll use less electricity.
3.Switch your diet – eliminate fast foods, go vegetarian or vegan. Outside of transportation, diet is the #1 way that can help you eliminate climate change pollution. Eat only organic, buy local. See the movie “Food Inc.” http://www.takepart.com/foodinc/ and Franken Steer https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2263192/
4. Change all your lights to LEDs they consume 90-95% less electric energy and this will save you money.
5. Stop Flying – this is a major cause of climate change pollution. Avoid flights like the plaque. Plan a head, get an EV for those trips. I just completed the worlds longest music tour in an EV – 8,070 mile plus our summer tours which added up to over 16,000 gasless, pollution free miles. I had one flight in 2007 and my last one was in 2010. (now we drive our Tesla EV to LA, Nashville, NY everywhere) https://thedriven.io/2019/02/20/zero-emissions-musicians-take-a-tesla-model-3-ev-on-tour
6. Stop Driving IEEC (Internal Explosion Engine Cars – ICE) If you have a gas car have it crushed like I did with my mini van, or at least trade it in. With luck no one else will buy it. Yes I crushed my mini van totally got $600 at the top of the market at the time.
Get a pre-owned EV 100% electric vehicle. We bought a preowned Nissan Leaf 2011 looks like new for $5,000, great for around town, did all the grocery runs put over 8,000 miles on it and it didn’t cost much of anything to run. Friends don’t let friends drive a gas hole. If you or someone you know is looking for a new car – get a new EV.
Tesla is the best one from a company dedicated to eliminating transportation climate change pollution. Here is the referral code: https://ts.la/rick45705 you’ll get 1,000 miles of free super charging. Pre-Owned or New – EVs are at least 80% cheaper to drive! Yep that’s because electricity is cheaper than gas – hands down. If you don’t have a car take and electric Lyft, demand they show up in an EV. In fact, if you spend $600 a month in gas, you can buy a Tesla on the gas savings.
If you own a home:
7.Get tons of Insulation. If you own a home, heat is leaking out of your ceiling which is costing you money. It might be said that you can never have too much. Good investment and instant return with reduced winter heating bills. There are tax credits of off set installation costs.
8. Upgrade your windows and doors. This costs, but there are tax credits of off set installation costs and ultimately will save you money.
9.Get off fossil fuel at home. Is your home heating coming from oil or natural gas = (methane)? These are fossil fuels that harm the water, air quality and are climate change pollution sources. Switch to a 100% electric high efficiency heat pump system. Electric cook stove too. This costs but there are tax credits of off set installation costs and ultimately will save you money and lower your carbon footprint.
10. Consider roof top or community solar so you can become a net producer of energy. Solar power in combination with stationary battery backup is an unbeatable combination to fight climate change pollution. Solar by day, battery power at night. Tesla will put up solar for you pretty cheap…. Free use this code to find out more about the power wall and solar. https://ts.la/rick45705
11. Yard tools. Get rid of all your gas powered tools like: Lawn mowers, chain saws, snow blowers, line trimmers, leaf blowers, electric generators (get a power wall https://ts.la/rick45705). All these, except the power wall, are fossil fuel climate change pollution devices. I am converting to electric the last gas thing we have,– a big giant gas snow blower not used for a very long while as we have a small electric snow blower powered by battery. When complete we will be able to plug in to any one of 3 electric car charge stations and reach the entire driveway and front walkways.
We did not do this list in 1 – 11 order, we did clean choice, lights, vampire loads, yard tools, vegan, electric cars, heating, solar and now heat pump and instant on hot water heater. Achieve your goals in any order. Some are more obviously over your direct control that can be changed instantly. Others you’ll need to prioritize your own order. Good Luck and let me know how you’re doing? We are not alone in this.
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