Posted on 12/31/2008 10:34:07 PM PST by Libloather
Making lifestyle changes to prevent climate change
Have you resolved to help the environment and curb climate change? Here are seven easy steps you and yours can take at home
By LISA DAVIS - Special to the Star-Telegram
Posted on Thu, Jan. 01, 2009
Our family’s small quest to save the planet began a couple of years ago, when my 8-year-old daughter saw a heartbreaking photo in National Geographic of a polar bear stranded on a shrinking ice floe.
She wanted to know why the polar bear looked so scared, so we explained about climate change, greenhouse gases and carbon emissions from cars and electric plants.
And then she insisted that we do all we could to save the polar bears. We started with the immediate: Reduce our electricity usage.
My daughter plastered the walls with posters that read "Save the polar bears!!!" She put stickers on the light switches reminding us to "turn out the lights!!!"
It’s working. We turn off the lights when we leave a room. We turn off the TV when we’re done watching it. We unplug the phone chargers when they’re not in use.
Here are some ways your family can help save the world in 2009:
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
"The most expensive commodity we have in the United States is ignorance." - El Rushbo
Climate is always changing.
You can divide the world into two camps: Warmist and Coldists.
GO WARM!
Most of us produce the vast majority of our own, personal “carbon footprint” heating water, heating dwellings, and travelling. Simple enough, eh? Stay home, don’t wash, shiver. Save the planet.
And thereby doom the BABY seals.
GO SEALS!
Can’t polar bears swim?
Saw this on the hiway sign at a Putt-Putt...
Climate is
what we expect
Weather is
What we get
I don’t know about the barf alert. Being a grandchild of the “big depression”, we always turn out lights when leaving a room(be a watt watcher, dontcha know) and we very seldom throw anything out—turkey croquettes, soup, chicken and noodles, etc. It is only those who have little regard for waste who waste stuff.
More importantly, I turn off lights, TV’s and appliances because electric bill’s go through the roof......I couldn’t give a damn about some polar bear lounging on a piece of ice....then again, I’m not a stupid liberal.
Excellent.
That’s Mark Twain BTW..
I’m all for conservation - provided it’s not tied to Gorebull warming B.S.
And, I’m half-serious. Climate really does not stay the same. Gore wants it colder. Screw that.
We should lobby for warmer. F- the Coldist!
Save the seals!
hurling alert
Ever since I saw this little snotty brat I decided I am not paying attention to global warming & kids ranting about it. I do my best to recycle & turn off lights etc. But I am not buying into Al Gore’s bs. Or going to listen to this future terrorist & his threats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fC1S8Skqo
Adopt an endangered animal
Not just a polar bear, either. Through the World Wildlife Fund (www.worldwildlife.org) or the National Wildlife Federation (www.nwf.org), you can learn about hundreds of threatened species, such as the gray wolf, the grizzly bear, the tiger, the snow leopard, the panda and the meerkat. For a donation (starting at $25 or $35), your family can symbolically adopt its favorite animal, and get a cuddly version of it. Who knew a stuffed blue-footed booby could be so darn cute?
Is that made of cotton - or polyester?
The Startle-Gram is run by bunch exteme lefties out of San Fran, L.A. and N.Y.N.Y. and Ft. Worth is a strongly conservitive town. Their paper keeps getting smaller and smaller, soon it will be gone.
I just posted this in Comments on the article on the StartleGram site.
“Polar bears mostly eat seals. Preferably baby seals. You’ve taught your daughter to support killing baby seals. Way to go, dude. NOT.”
Your purchase of stuffed animals, plastic animals, and other toys and gifts from T---- and F------ Wildlife World helps preserve endangered species and their rainforest habitats.
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