marți, 17 iulie 2012


Save energy!
            Energy is one of the most fundamental parts of our universe. We use energy to do work. Energy lights our cities. Energy powers our vehicles, trains, planes and rockets. Energy warms our homes, cooks our food, plays our music, gives us pictures on television. Energy powers machinery in factories and tractors on a farm.   Energy from the sun gives us light during the day. It dries our clothes when they're hanging outside on a clothes line. It helps plants grow. Energy stored in plants is eaten by animals, giving them energy. Everything we do is connected to energy in one form or another.  We really can change the world with just one light bulb. The key is that the more people that take this step, the more we can change the world!                                              If you buy things that can be used over and over instead of buying disposable items that are used once and then thrown away, you will save precious natural resources.          You'll also save energy used to make them, and you'll reduce the amount of landfill space we need when they are thrown away.                                                               When your family goes shopping, think about taking bags with you. Only about 700 paper bags can be made from one 15-year-old tree. A large grocery store can use that many bags before lunch! Plastic bags start out as either oil or natural gas. Oil and natural gas are non-renewable resources. This means they can't be reused, and when they are all gone, they are gone forever. And throw-away bags add a lot of pollution to the environment. If plastic and paper bags are used once and go to landfills, they stay there for hundreds of years some stores offer discounts for people who use their own bags. For every bag reused, they give money back - usually about five cents for each bag.  Turn off the toys and games that use batteries when you are not playing with them that makes the batteries last longer, and you won't need as many of them. Forty percent of all battery sales are made during the holiday season. Ask for holiday gifts that do not require batteries. Ask your parents to buy rechargeable batteries and a recharge!                          Don't keep the refrigerator door open any longer than you need to! Close it to keep the cold air inside! Also, make sure the door closes securely. Wasting water wastes electricity. Why? Because the biggest use of electricity in most cities is supplying water and cleaning it up after it's been used!  Another simple way to save water and energy is to take shorter showers. You'll use less hot water - and water heaters account for nearly 1/4 of your home's energy use.  Turn off your electric blanket when you aren't in bed!                                               We also must move furniture away from radiators to allow heat circulate!          Americans use as much energy as necessary to heat their homes. That accounts for a lot of wasted energy! Think about your curtains. Keeping the curtains closed on cold, cloudy days helps block the cold outside air from getting inside. Also, keeping the curtains closed on very hot days keeps the hot air out!                                                  Also in the Christmas time we use a lot of energy that is not necessary, I mean the Christmas lights, we could let them on just on that night, not all day long, like we do!  Turn off the TV when no one is watching it! The same goes for computers, radios and stereos - if no one using it, turn it off! Turn off all the appliances at the surge protector/control strip - that four- or six-plug extension chord that you plug all your computer things into. Some devices, like modems or other networking boxes are drawing small amounts of power all the time. Check with your folks first, but the best thing to do is turn them all off at the surge protector.  
 If every American recycled his or her newspaper just one day a week, we would save about 36 million trees a year. You can save a tree for every four feet of paper you recycle. It takes half as much energy to make recycled newspaper as it takes to make fresh newsprint from trees.                                                                  
We must all conserve energy and use it efficiently. Look who many ways are to save energy! You just try to respect them! It isn’t so hard, also it is thriftier!  The future is ours, but we need energy to get there!

Stroe Alina 

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