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Global Warming Blog shows you how much CO2 you can prevent from being released into the atmosphere and how much cash you can save by making some small changes in your life. It’s our hopethis will promote action, consciousness and empowerment by showing you that one person can make a difference and help to stop global warming.

There are many simple things you can do in your daily life — what you drive, what you eat, how you build your home — that can have an effect on your immediate surrounding, and on places as far as Antactica. Here is a list of 32 things that you can do to make a difference.

Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Replace 3 frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. Save 300 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $60 per year. Take the Energy Star pledge.

Inflate Your Tires

Keep the tires on your car properly inflated. Check them monthly. Save 250 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $740 per year.

Change Your Air Filter

Check your car’s air filter monthly. Save 790 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $120 per year.

Fill the Dishwasher

Run your dishwasher only with a full capacity. Save 90 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $38 per year.

Use Recycled Paper

Make sure your printer paper is 100% post consumer recycled paper. Save 5 lbs. of carbon dioxide per roll of paper.

Adjust Your Thermostat

Move your heater thermostat down two degrees in winter and up two degrees in the summer. Save 2000 lbs of carbon dioxide and $98 per year.

Check Your Waterheater

Keep your water heater thermostat no higher than 120°F. Save 550 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $30 per year.

Change the AC Filter

Clean or replace dirty air conditioner filters as proposed. Save 350 lbs. of co2 and $150 per year.

Take Shorter Showers

Showers account for 2/3 of all water heating costs. Save 350 lbs. of co2 and $99 per year.

Install a Low-Flow Showerhead

Using less water in the shower means less energy to heat the water. Save 350 lbs. of co2 and $150.

Buy Products in Locall Stores

Buy in locall store and reduce the amount of energy required to drive your products to your store.

Buy Energy Certificates

Help spur the renewable energy market and cut global warming pollution by buying wind certificates and green tags.

Buy Minimally Packaged Goods

Less packaging could reduce your garbage by about 10%. Save 1,200 pounds of co2 and $1,000 per year.

Buy a Hybrid Car

The average driver could save 16,000 lbs. of CO2 and $3,750 per year driving a hybrid

Buy a Fuel Efficient Car

Getting a few extra miles per gallon makes a big difference. Save thousands of lbs. of CO2 and a lot of money per year.

Use organized transport When You Can

Own a big vehicle? using organized transport with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs. of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.

Don’t Idle in Your Car

Idling wastes money and gas, and generates pollution and global warming causing emissions. Except when in traffic, turn your engine off if you must wait for more than 30 seconds.

Reduce Garbage

Buy products with less packaging and recycle paper, plastic and glass. Save 1,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year.

Plant a Tree

Trees suck up carbon dioxide and make clean air for us to breathe. Save 2,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year.

Insulate Your Water Heater

Keep your water heater insulated could save 1,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $40 per year.

Replace Old Appliances

Inefficient appliances waste energy. Save hundreds of lbs. of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.

Weatherize Your Home

Caulk and weather strip your doorways and windows. Save 1,700 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $274 per year.

Use a Push Mower

Use your muscles instead of fossil fuels and get some exercise. Save 80 lbs of carbon dioxide per year.

Unplug Un-Used Electronics

Even when electronic devices are turned off, they use energy. Save over 1,000 lbs of carbon dioxide and $256 per year.

Put on a Sweater

Instead of turning up the heat in your home, wear more clothes Save 1,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $250 per year.

Insulate Your Home

Make sure your walls and ceilings are insulated. Save 2,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $245 per year.

Air Dry Your Clothes

Line-dry your clothes in the spring and summer instead of using the dryer. Save 700 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $75 per year.

Switch to a Tankless Water Heater

Your water will be heated as you use it rather than keeping a tank of hot water. Save 300 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $390 per year.

Switch to Double Pane Windows

Double pane windows keep more heat inside your home so you use less energy. Save 10,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $436 per year.

Buy Organic Food

The chemicals used in modern agriculture pollute the water supply, and require energy to produce.

Bring Cloth Bags to the Market

Using your own cloth bag instead of plastic or paper bags reduces waste and requires no additional energy.

Turn off Your Computer

Shut off your computer when not in use, and save 200 lbs of C02. Conserve energy by using your computer’s “sleep mode” instead of a screensaver.

As informs Nature, James Lovelock and Chris Rapley from the London Science Museum proposed the method of struggle against global warming.

In the article published in the magazine” Nature”, they have suggested to mix ocean by the support of vertical pipes. By scientists’ opinion, it should lift organic substances on a surface and cause strong multiplication of algae. Algae during the process of photosynthesis will consume carbon dioxide and include it in organic substances, and after the extinction of algae this fixed carbon will descend on the bottom and that will deduce it from circulation in the atmosphere.

It is known that the algae in the standard achieve a similar process, but as authors of a hypothesis approve, their method will help to double an amount of carbon, precipitated on the bottom of oceans.

The majority of scientists have skeptically disturbed to the new propose, having noted, that similar actions can have various unpredictable ecological consequences. Besides water itself contains more carbon dioxide on depth, than on a surface; therefore during the mixing its surplus will be isolated in the atmosphere and that will bring to nothing prospective effect from the multiplication of algae.

The editors of the magazine “Nature” emphasize that this article is published as “interesting proposal”, it has not passed usual reviewing by experts and does not contain the solidly valid scientific results. It is emphasized that although the hypothesis is interesting, it is one of the numerous proposals on the struggle against the global warming. As another example the editors of scientific journal bring proposal to install mirrors on the Earth’s orbit to reflect a part of sunlight and as a consequence to cool the Earth’s surface.

Nevertheless, the company Atmocean has become interested by the offer and going to lead the experiment. It is intended to omit in ocean of a pipe with a length of 300 meters and diameter of 3 meters, and by their help to mix layers of water, to measure amount of the multiplied algae and to calculate the correlation between the raised from the depth and which were descended on the bottom as a result of this process.