5 Simple Steps to Protect the Earth

Living green is not as hard as you think; there are some steps that can be done very easily that could help protecting the earth. Protecting the earth also means protecting your health, protecting your family and protecting your money. What could be better than that? Follow these five simple steps and start protecting the earth now.

Use less Plastic

I wrote a post about The Reasons Why I Don’t Like Plastic. Plastic is a nasty thing that can’t be degraded naturally. I remember when I was giving a presentation about waste management to the employees, I asked the audition whether plastic is biodegradable or not. Most of the answers were “no, it’s not biodegradable”. Then there was one guy who said, “Yes, it could be degraded naturally, but within 500 years”. That was exactly the answer that I was looking for. You can imagine, 500 years. Do you still want to make the world a worse place for your children and grand children? Start using less plastic now.

Use Public Transportation

Using a bus or a train is good for the environment. You can imagine, there are hundreds of people that can be on a train in the same time and to the same destination. Can you see how effective it is? One machine is used to transport many people in the same time. The Green House Gas (GHG) emission per person would be much less than using your own car.

Buy Local Food

Buy local food is certainly something that you can do every day. You can go to the closest market in your area and start shopping there. You will use less energy and money rather than have to go to your favorite market but located farther and takes longer time. Don’t forget, you need energy to distribute your food from an area to the other area. This energy means that you also produce emission to the atmosphere. This emission in the end will cause.. yes you know, the Global Warming. I would like to emphasize that buying local food looks simple, but actually, it can make a difference for the world.

Use Electricity Wisely

I bet that you’ve heard many times before that unplugs your electronic equipments when you don’t use it can reduce your electricity usage. Put your TV on standby mode would also use the energy. My wife knows better than me on how to save the energy J My biggest advise that I can give you is to think that the energy that we use is not free. Don’t forget that you pay every time you watch your television. If you’re working so hard to get some money, then you don’t want to spend it carelessly.

Save More Water

“Five minutes is enough to take a shower”, that’s exactly what we wrote for our water saving campaign in our company. We put the sticker in the bathroom so everyone that takes a shower would read it directly. You can do the same thing for your bathroom. Put colorful reminder on your wall, just near your kitchen sink to remind your husband to save the water while he’s washing the dishes.

Of course there are many things that you can do to help protecting the earth, but those five simple steps would certainly help you to start. What’s important is not the result that you get from your own action, but it’s about the spirit and how you spread the words to others.