What can you do for our environment?

Philippines
October 8, 2009 9:13pm CST
with the onslaught of storms like Ondoy & Pepeng in the Philippines, people are becoming more aware of global warming and it's terrible effects. as governments around the world thought of ways to prevent the total destruction of our environment, what do ordinary citizens like us can do? suggestions everyone! i do think this can help a lot!
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8 responses
@shajerrl (309)
• China
9 Oct 09
yes, for sure, we all should care more about the global warming and now more and more catastropes caused by global warming. I think firstly we should not use my own car and travel with public transpotation to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions at the atmosphere. also using sloar energy, planting more trees, having fewer baby etc...
@shajerrl (309)
• China
9 Oct 09
maybe so especially in sereval big cites. these cities have contributed more and more carbon dioxide to our atmosphere, if i can, I will strongly advice to limit the use of personal car in these cities.
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
do you think someone should suggest to minimize the car manufacturing?
• Philippines
11 Oct 09
unfortunately, we people have become used to have an easy life and have become very uncomfortable with our current lifestyle, it would take some drastic happenings before we fully realize we have to do something.
@cet1987 (209)
• Malaysia
9 Oct 09
we do realise about the global warming. Governments around the world are also aware about this. we destroy our planet by our own hands! we are the one create this problem and it is now a time to put an end to this. we should stop pollution. start sharing vehicle with friends, stop open burning, stop using plastic bags, plant more trees. If we can do this, we are not just helping ourself but we are helping future generation.
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
you are absolutely right! i just wish we can do away with plastic bags! it takes years before they can be decomposed, right?
@cet1987 (209)
• Malaysia
9 Oct 09
yes, you are right my friend. In fact, typical baby diapers needs 500 years to be decompossed. in my state, markets are not allowed to use plastic bags every monday. go green everyone!
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
i think department stores at our place should be stricter and follow yours to at least not use plastic bags a day! here, they only encourage grocers to use green bags but it's still the grocers' choice so majority of the grocers still prefers the plastic bags over the green bags.
@Zhizho (1350)
• Indonesia
9 Oct 09
Hi there.I think there is way that us can do as ordinary citizen.Just start from your self and from home.Now,I try to plant some plants and break up the trash to be wet and dry trash and recycle the dry trash.Try to invite other people to do it too.We could using the wet trash as manure to the plants.I try to using kleneex minimal.We must save the word.
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
that's great zhizho! i think i'll compile the answers i get here
@bettydeng5 (1822)
• China
9 Oct 09
Natural disease can't control sometimes, but this natural disease caused by the envionment, it's eventually caused by people. To promote the policy to protect the environment to citizens, let them understand protect the forest, don't cut the trees, don't put the polluted water, and don't produce the poisonous smoking to the sky. it's very important to avoid this.
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
indeed, these natural calamities' causes are the people who cut those trees and pollutes air... but as a mother/father or a student or an employee what simple things can we do to "not" add pollution in the air?
• China
9 Oct 09
there are truely lots of things we can to as a citizen of the earth. we can do recycling, we can save water, we can stop killing animals, we can stop cutting off the trees, we can even use less and less detergent when we wash to not to pollute the natural water system, we can turn off the lights when there is no body in the room to save the electrical energy, we can also spread the words out to people to bring the awareness of protecting our environment, we can also teach our kids to do good stuffs for environment and more and more.
• Philippines
9 Oct 09
i do think more people should spread the word. these ideas should be disseminated if we want to really help ourselves and the future generation.
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
10 Oct 09
I just hope that we really learn from our mistakes and not just making "ningas cogon" as we done many, many times before. I've anyway, I've checked your profile and found out you're from Malabon. Is everything okay now down there? Now its the Northern part of the Pinas was badly suffering from the calamities. I pray that you guys will be safer today than it is during the typhoon.
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
12 Oct 09
The sun is shinning right now. Nice way to start the new day after the calamity.
• Philippines
10 Oct 09
we're okay here at our place you know we're really used to floods just not that big :)... we feel luckier than those of our countrymen there at the north i just wish Pepeng will leave the country fast. reports on television can be very depressing with more landslides and big floods.
@amyson (3498)
• Philippines
12 Oct 09
theres so much to do to help ans saving our environment.first we should recycle things separate the bio and non-biodegradable materials.saves electricity by not using so much light at night and dont lights in the day when your home have light passing inside the house so it does not need to put lights again.use water efficiently conserve water.love mother earth as much as possible so dont burning coal that flood is really cause by no trees to hold on so maybe people got affected of all this flood ans so on.
@Gongfuboy (130)
• China
12 Oct 09
Of course, ordinary citizens can help a lot, even they are the key element of this thesis. Governments may serve as a link between environment and human being. They make policies while citizens turn the thoughts into actions, a lack of either government or citizen will lead to the failure of our protection to the environment. So what can we do in this campaign? I do believe we should act from our surroundings, recycle valuable wastes, close the water valve tightly or stoping using products made of timber. If you have children, you should act as an example to exercise influence on your children, after all, this great cause will be undetaken from generation to generation.