PLEDGE TO SAVE THE PLANET

If you want to save the planet, stop using the computer, television, cellphone, and every stinking electronic! =P

I second that. :-D

And now the true lovers ... Hummmm ... Ok I see you suggest Eco Eating by "Buy fair-trade-certified foods: It ensures proper wages and working conditions for the people who harvest and handle your food." But when it comes to the loving part "Use recycled gold for your wedding rings The mining of gold leaves environmental devastation in its wake by leaving arsenic residues and other problems associated with mining. Diamond mining also has negative environmental consequences" Who cares how much blood is spilled on the procurement of those Diamonds...... (( And can you guess where they are processed ? And who processes them, and what / if they are payed ? )) You Can and Should buy only CONFLICT FREE DIAMONDS, new or re-used..... If you think CO2 is bad try stepping on a PMN-2 (( nick named the Black-widow )) anti-personnel landmine, This is the most commonly used anti-personal landmine in conflict areas.... ((( if you want to think of it in CO2 output, think like this, We will cut down an entire forest to remove them, with huge diesel powered equipment, which can cut down and process a tree, and I have seen beautiful old growth trees geting getting chopped.... Faster then you can say those wedding vows, to return the land to a Landmine/ UXO free state... )))

We all start from somewhere. No one can save the entire world and the corruption and the blood spilt. Its all relative. But in small ways we can start and do more bit by bit. Not through websites but in reality as well. Your points are very beautiful and nicely explained but whats the crux of the matter? What are you doing to help? Cheers

The "Crux" ? Your website needs to be corrected, and I would suggest you make it, on a more "Global" bias I went to take the green quiz and I know nothing about how much trash is produced in the UK...

And maybe some transparency, where is your funding coming from, are you trying to get supporters to support Google ads ?

Now to say no one can save the entire world and the corruption, If you buy one non conflict diamond, say from Canada, and that stops the sale of just one AK-47 and several hundred 7.62 mm X 39 mm rounds, they are only a few dollars in Africa, you may of just saved several lives... Is that diamond not worth it. ??? you alone may not save the world, but you alone may save several lives by making the ethically correct choices, and in the long run it does really cost you any more to do the right thing...

Now to ask what I'm doing to help others, right now I'm working on a composite and low metal content landmine detection system, which will allow demining crews to find plastic mines with greater accuracy, and return unusable, unsafe areas of our planet into either useable farm land or it's natural state... (( which might be why I take exception to, buy fairly traded food but who cares where the diamonds come from, and there is no mention of ethically traded cotton either .. )) And while some people I have talked to, said if they put more land mines in the ground it's good for me, thinking from a business point of view, but with the millions already out there I think I have enough to keep me plugging away for the next 1000 years....

Oh and yes on the environmental issues I use CFL's, in fact the only incandescent light bulbs in my house are in the Microwave 15 watt , the oven 40 watt and fridge 15 watt, I didn't even grumble about the cost of several Metal Halide fixtures to reduce my total power load, I get great enjoyment from gardening and growing and eating my own food, I actually give about 80 to 90 % of what I grow away, but I do have a huge garden, I'm starting to generate my own solar power, I buy conflict free diamonds, I don't use new tanalite capacitors in my electronic designs, I will use salvaged from scrap ones (( To see why click here )) And my christmas lights are LED and they are also Solar powered (( yes they are on every night all year round but I don't have street lighting where I live )), And I recycle about 50 to 70 computer, monitors,printers a year to give to people that need them, Ya, Ok every one in my area take's there broken treasures to my house for them to get reused ...

wow good. Thanks for the hints. I think we need to update the site. I will try to do something. As for the funding, its my company who started it. Its philanthropic and we dont intend to do business. For ads! We just want people to be aware of this and register by partaking in the questionnaire and do what it says as well. Thats all. Anyways I read you are from Alberta. Canada. I am from India name is Shaz. I work and am trying our best to make this website a global phenomenon but about carbon in India. We will take your advice if you give us some valid and helpful suggestions. Thanks and bye

Well looking at your website it looks like 4836 people But your website is suggesting things like this "We always cook too much at Christmas - ensure all spare food has cooled before putting it in the fridge as this will help save energy" Hum..... how energy does this save ?? Have you seen the energy requirements of a hospital lately ? And then there is the energy requirements of a large pharmaceutical company? So is the food poisoning worth the very little bit of carbon that might get used to properly store food? And how much carbon and carbon based products like methane are released when I toss out the spoiled food ? SUCH A WASTE... You may not be aware of this but there is people on this planet that are starving, and dieing from malnutrition, and from checking your location, there is people in India who are starving today... Yet your website promotes such wasteful practices .... And Scaremongering........ TO save some carbon, consider pulling the plug on your server, while you correct oversights like this........

Ok sounds good. Thanks for the suggestions. But did you register? At the end of the day big talk doesnt help. We need supporters and helpers not critics. If I need critics I can go publish a book to create waves!! LOL Anyways we will try to change the website accordingly but it would be good if you understood the real meaning. Means pledge a cause and do what it takes to help people and avoid global warming.

You need supporters and helpers, I hate to be the one to say this but critics are also helpers, they help to point out over sights, inaccuracies, flaw, and things that are not right or fair ... This allows one to improve, in your case, your website, which may / will improve other peoples lives either directly or indirectly, you may of saved the lives of many people just by altering a few lines of text, yes it could be that simple.....

you are right on that count. Thanks. I now request you to register and also give us your ideas. We intend to start big already doing alot of campaigns and social work in India. Shaz

I appreciate your passion. Certainly we all want to leave a decent environment for our children and grandchildren. I do several of the "little" things to help, but I'm not optimistic. "Green" needs to be financially rewarding for China, India, and most of Africa to buy in. It's hard to think "green" when you're just getting by. I do think global warming is part of a cycle, but I can't deny the poisoning nature of unneccessary polutants in the air and water. It doesn't hurt for us to all conserve a little. More power to you!

What's wrong with being 15 ?? Even if you only get a small panel, say a 1 watt to power some LED's it's one watt less your pulling off the gird and this will allow you to learn and build bigger and bigger systems ....... There is nothing wrong with starting small... honestly most of us have been there at one point or another (( my first solar panel was a $10 wal-mart 1.8 watt panel ))

How about "the recycling company refuses to recycle our stuff" True story. They will pick up everyone around us' stuff. It just sat there. Week after week, they refused to pick it up. Then they took our box away from us because we refused to pay them for not picking it up. But I have started trying to save water. The drought kind of forced us to, or pay twice as much on the water bill.

Ok on the whole water issue, most domestic use of water doesn't effect the water cycle much, most if not all fresh water is recycled and recycled, yep that 5 gallon bottle sitting on the water cooler has already been threw about 7 bladders, doesn't that make it sound appealing ??

It's more the industrial uses of water like oil fields pumping water and using it for lubricants while drilling underground, this water will be lost forever.....

And that one third of the population facing water shortages and outbreaks of disease, and poor drinking water quality, would that be in developing nations like Africa ?

The only shortage there is a shortage of cash, I have lived there, I have helped build several wells... But even foreign governments who promise cash fail to deliver... So before you try and use them as an example, for nothing other then scaremongering, Consider this, In the developed nations we manufacture pumps, I have a well and a 1/2 HP pump it is worth under 1% of my income for the year, now in Zimbabwe it's 3 years of someones total income, and if they would like to eat, by the time they are done paying for the first pump they will need to be using there third maybe fourth pump, thats assuming they get about a 15 year life out of the pump ....

To see more about this problem please read the data report at http://www.thedatareport.org/pdf/DATAREPORT2007.pdf

And please don't get me wrong I'm not saying you shouldn't try to conserve water, but don't use scaremongering ................

y are you responding to my post?????

Getting a modern update to the toilet is a better idea. The newer ones don't have that big ole tank in the back anymore.

o god that would stink after a bit lol

And why is that?

cause ur letting ur piss and "feces" to sit there for a few hours at a time lol

well there is that old saying "If it's yellow let it mellow, and if it's brown flush it down"