Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day Everyone!! Here are some tips to help out the environment and to make your bills a little less expensive! Please pass along the information so everyone can be involved in the bettering of our Earth's future!

Keep the lint filter on your dryer cleaned so the dryer uses less energy.

Make sure your windows and doors are well insulated.

Use both sides of the paper when printing.

Turn off your computer when you leave the office for the day. (Companies save hundreds of thousands of dollars by doing this)

Get your printer ink cartridges refilled instead of buying new ones. It's cheaper and saves on packaging and material costs.

Regulate the temperature of your water heater to 120 degrees.

Get a trash can or barrel of some sort to catch the rain from your rain gutters on your house and use the water to water your plants and things like that.

Use a lid when warming a pot on the stove. It'll save energy and warm faster!


I know that all this sounds like little things that wont make that much of an impact but if you pass this information on and everyone starts making these little changes, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! The Earth isn't gonna last forever and it's our children that will inherit it, why not make it better than it was for us?

Class Project

In my Global Consumer Culture class we had to do a documentary on Globalization. It was a group project so I can't take all the credit!! Here it is, hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoUnf-oGs1s

Another documentary that I really liked and learned a lot from was one on Human Trafficking, yeah.. true story, its like the modern day slavery! Check this video out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjULP2M7Hc


Hope you all enjoy! or at least learn something!!

Plastic Bags

Hello all,
So recently in some of my classes we have been talking about different ways to go green and help the environment. One of the issues we talked about was the dangers of plastic bags. Here's what I learned:

Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are used worldwide each year and less than 1% of bags are recycled. It costs more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one.

A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. the real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean fill.


Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south as the Falkland Islands.

Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline.

Nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags. They die after ingesting plastic bags which the mistake for food.



If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week, 24 bags a month, 288 bags a year, thats 22,176 bags in an average life time. If 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our lifetime.

Bangladesh, China, Ireland, and Rwanda banned the use of plastic bags. Israel, Canada, western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore have also banned or are moving towards banning the plastic bag. And in March 2007 San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags.

Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil. Reducing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency. China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to there ban of free plastic bags.

So next time you go to Walmart, pick up one of those shopping bags that cost $1 .. remember what you will be doing for the environment! If you read this please pass the information on!

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi