by Juvenile Bacolcol

Created on: October 08, 2010   Last Updated: October 09, 2010

Student’s New Project: Fight Global Warming

It’s 7:30 in the morning, your alarm clock is ringing-it’s time to wake up, you’ll be late for school! It’s hot outside and you can feel your sweat making you wet. What’s wrong? It’s early in the morning. You switched on the television and you could see a report on “Global Warming”. Your heart says you need to watch it but you failed because you need to catch up your first subject, you need to rush. Well in your mind, “how I am supposed to help? I have my studies; I have no time to join fighting for the Mother Earth”. Yes you can, there are simple ways that students could do and these are the following;

Don’t use Hot water - You can always take a bath using fresh cold water. Save the energy required to heat up water. You could save time and electricity or gas. Plus, cold water will help you not to get sleepy in class.

Choose recycled - You’re a student right and I bet you need a notebook. You can always choose for recycled one. You can go to bookstore near you and ask for recycled. You can use recycled notebook, bonds, paper, and many more.

Use Electric fan - switching off your air conditioning system and instead use electric fan. It would lessen your electric consumption thus, lessening your payment and it may be added to your allowance.

Buy on bundles or wholesale - when you buy your ballpen in boxes you can save time and energy. Manufacturers save energy when they don’t need to repack each item into tiny packages.

Bring plants in your room - Planting on small plants in your room would improve the ambience of your messy room. You can put one on the side of your study table. Whenever you review for your exam you can always look at it and it will help you relax. It can also purify the odor of onions and garlic from pizza you ate last night.

Unplug your laptop charger or any charger - when not in use you must unplug it. Appliances suck down electricity just by being plugged into the socket. Set you laptop to standby whenever you run out of battery. This will help you not to loose your on due class report and avoiding you to plug your laptop always.

White light - You can make your room more conducive to learning by switching yellow incandescent light bulb into white fluorescent lamp. Yellow environment can make you sleepy. Instead of finishing your project you’ll end up making it as a pillow. Compact fluorescent bulbs lose less energy as heat than traditional bulbs do and can last up to 10 times long.

Energy star on your machine - check every appliances you have and if they have an “energy Star” label. If yes these products are government-certified juice sippers that can slash your electricity bill as much as 30 percent.

Get active online - When you research online, take time to visit online organizations that support the fight against Global Warming. You can also e-mail your representatives in Congress to support federal action to reduce greenhouse gas emission.

All you have to remember is less consumption, less waste; less energy are the key to fight Global Warming. Saving Mother Earth is in our hands.

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