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
