The Environmentalist Club

I've seen this in a few other forums, and I really liked the idea!
Feel free to share your views on government policies, technologies, social trends, etc. which help...or hurt the environment...
Also share your views on what an individual can do...and the problems we're facing now.
Fill in this form please:
Username:
What you love about Nature:
What you do to help:

Members

Incubus

webbff

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SaddleClub

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Me? Well right now, I'm basically focusing on over-population. I mean, when you think about it, everything starts because of over population! Climatic changes, pollution, degradation of land, waste accumulation.
And how much can one individual do about this? I mean, you can do really good family planning, you can spread awareness...but what else?
China made a law against having more than one baby, if possible. But most countries are democratic now, and it would be against their constitution to make such a law.
So...
Goal 1 of the Environmentalist Club : Spread awareness about the issue of over population! I'm serious. Put posters up, talk to people around you. ^^
Goal 2 of the Environmentalist Club : Reduce your computers brightness by 1% every week! **nods** Hopefully your family won't notice
(Suggested by SaddleClub)
And feel free to suggest another Goal!

Username: webbff
What you love about Nature: the peacefulness
What you do to help: I yell at all my school to recycle at lunch!

Heh, thanks for joining ^^ I was afraid no-one would :-)

No prob, so what do we do in a "enviromentalist club?"

Its basically a club where people not only TALK about how to help the environment but do it also... There are simple methods of course like all the switching of lights and not wasting water.
But there's stuff that a few of us aren't aware of us...
like when we access a bright page we burn a lot of energy
Thats why people have been switching to
www.blackle.com
for their homepage(Its a search engine powered by google)
And other stuff, I'll add more tomorrow
I have to sleep now.

I'll join!!

Username: SaddleClub
What you love about Nature: How beautiful and pure and innocent and fresh it is
What you do to help: I recycle, turn off lights/electronics when I don't need 'em, I walk home from school instead of getting a ride, and I use sites like Blackle when I remember (sorry, Google's just a natural reflex....xD)

I have an idea!! I am going to secretly decrease the brightness on the computer screen 1% a week. Maybe my family won't notice so much then.

Heh! Nice idea, I'm going to do that too!

You guys are both right! I never actually knew I had a brightness thing on my computer. I did it too to my itouch to save energy!

What you love about Nature: How pure, beautiful, and refreshing it is.
What you do to help: I've hung posters up at my school, talked about it with other students and professors, && I've been trying to save energy by doing other things such as:

• Taking out my phone charger when my phone isn't charging, or it's fully charged.

• Turning off my computer when it's not being used.

• Installing dimmers on the lights in my house.

• Turning off the water when I am brushing my teeth, or even when I am putting the shampoo in my hair when I'm in the shower.

^^; this is a great club idea.

webbff wrote:You guys are both right! I never actually knew I had a brightness thing on my computer. I did it too to my itouch to save energy!

Yeah, the brightness on my iPod is waaaaaay down (but I'm really used to it ) and now I'm secretly doing it to my computer

Did you know Starbucks is really un-enviromental friendly?! They leave the tap running while they work even if they're not using it!

How dare they!! Shame on them!!

I know!! I never go to Starbucks if I can help it.... Plus, I like Dunkin' Donuts better!

I don't like coffee to begin with so.....xD

:O
B-b-but....I.... love[d]...Starbucks. D:
They have this amazing chocolate coffee frappe shake or something: omgdeliciousness.

Anyways, I will try && got to DD now. xP

Incubus wrote:Its basically a club where people not only TALK about how to help the environment but do it also... There are simple methods of course like all the switching of lights and not wasting water.
But there's stuff that a few of us aren't aware of us...
like when we access a bright page we burn a lot of energy
Thats why people have been switching to
www.blackle.com
for their homepage(Its a search engine powered by google)
And other stuff, I'll add more tomorrow
I have to sleep now.

I don't really feel like joining and I feel like I'm being a really bad person, but I just wanted to point out that it doesn't actually make much of a difference on most monitors.

Username: Smirf
What you love about Nature: The smell and it's beauty.
What you do to help: I scream out 'SAVE THE EARTH UNLESS YOU WANNA DIE!' in the middle of the school hallway. ^^

Blackle doesn't help?? I made my whole creative writing class use it!! Arghhh....

Awwww.....

Yeah... If it uses more energy, I feel really bad!

Me too

Did you know black uses more energy sometimes?

Yes, B. We have realized that now.... ergh