Images of a changing World!

This is the Aral sea over thirty years.

Another way to recyle...

When you're finished reading your magazines - instead of chucking it, share it! In our apartment building on the Upper West Side, we have a magazine share in the lobby. Share your magazines with coworkers or any other community office.

Bottled Water

Stop drinking bottled water. Todays filters do a great job at cleaning the water we use and are much less damaging to the environment. We at Good is Green have added some reasons to stop drinking bottled water.

* 60 Million plastic bottles a day are disposed of in America alone!
* Massive volumes of greenhouse gases are produced in the making of plastic bottles
* Fossil fuel emissions are produced from transporting millions of bottles everyday
* It requires 3 times as much water to make the bottles as it does to fill it.

To give or not to give..

So I have two cars, one of them is a 1993 Saturn SL2, which I am planning to hand it off to CN. Now you might say to yourself, that's pretty generous BT, I suppose it is but mind you that the insurance coverage is worth more than the car. I could have easily donated to a charity and redeem my free cruise & $25 tax deductible for my tax returns next year. But I did not know what their intentions were, it would probably be the same as me giving it to CN. But I ran into a moral issue, should I have had the car recycled for parts, potentially doing my part in helping the planet? Unfortunately no, instead, I am leaving it out on the road for it to contribute its harmful fumes to the environment.

It's only one car, what harm could it possibly do the environment? Well, one gallon of gasoline produces 19 pounds of carbon dioxide (one of the leading causes of global warming), the average car has a 13 gallon gas tank, 13 times 19 = 247 pounds of carbon dioxide per re-fill. Now lets say you've used up 800 gallons of gas a year, that equals to 10,400 pounds or 5.4 tons a year of pollution coming out of the car. Now take that amount and multiply that with the amount of cars in the U.S alone, which is roughly 200 million.

The decision has already been made, it's out of my hands now. It's up to the new owner to determine his carbon footprint.

RECYCLE!

In some communities the recycling programs are being discontinued due to low participation. We at Good is Green implore you to call your local leaders and start recycling - PLEASE.

Carpool!

Start carpooling. When you start to carpool, for either work, school or play and can eliminate at least 25 miles of driving a day you can reduce at least 6 tons of CO's from the being added to our atmosphere.