How to save the Environment

On the World Environment Day(5th June), i feel the need of noting down the ways we can help save the earth for our predecessors.

Here are some small but useful steps useful enough for securing are future


Use A CFL

Replace a regular bulb wth a Compact Fluorescent Light bulb(CFL). CFL uses 60% less energy than a regular bulb, and hence can save upto 140Kg of Carbon Dioxde a year.


Clean Your AC

Clean or replace the filters of your AC. Cleaning can save the earth upto 150kg of carbon dioxide a year


Switch Off

Dont leave the devices on standby. Switch them off. A TV set thats switched on for 3hours, and kept in standby mode for 21 hours consumes 40% of its energy in standby mode only.


Ramp Up your Refrigerator

Defrost your old fridges and freezers regularly. Even better is to replace them with new ones.


Cover and Cook

Cover your pots whle cooking, it saves a lot of fuel for preparing the dish. Pressure cookers and steamers are even better,they can save upto 70% energy(not to mention the time too).


Washing Machine

Use the washing machine only when its full. If you need to use it when its half full, use the half load settings.


Switch Off vehicles at Red Lights

Probably the most ignored region. At red lights, we keep our vehicles on, just for the sake of laziness of giving ignition to the vehicle again when we have to go. But the long Red light guzzles up litres of our fuel and money, and makes our environment unsafe. Its better to Switch them off if the waiting time is more than 60 seconds.

Plant a tree

A single tree absorbs a tonne of Carbon Dioxide over its lifetime. The shade it provides can reduce your AirConditioning bills by 10-15%.

Fresh Foods

Buy fresh foods instead of frozen. Frozen food requires 10% more energy to produce. Buy organic food as a preference, as organic soil captures and stores Carbon Dioxide at much higher levels than the normal soil. According to an estimate,if all our soyabean and corn were grown organically, there would have been 580 billion pounds of Carbon Dioxide removed from the atmosphere.

Avoid meat

Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and cows are one of the greatest methane emitters. Their grassy diet and multiple stomachs cause them to produce methane,which they exhale with every breath.

Improve your driving style

Dont abuse the accelerator pedal, use the engine break instead of the pedal break. This will significantly cut down the pollution,as well as your fuel costs.

Be green

Stop using the car for every small distance. Start walking,biking,carpooling, or taking mass transits whenever possible. Avoiding 16miles of driving every week would save 226 kg's of Carbon Dioxide emissions a year. Keeping your car tuned up can improve efficiency and reduce emissions.


Avoid Plastic Bottles

Have a drink at the nearest McDonalds, or subways instead of buying a bottle. Figures say 15,00,000 tonnes of plastic is used to bottle water only. This bottled water is extracted from the underground sources, and hence dries up our springs and underground aquifiers. Moreover, transportation of water emits greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide, which heat up the planet.

So here are the steps. I'd urge you all to follow them, and make our planet beautiful