The Internet Can Save The World

The world is messed up, yes. You want to help, yes. But do you have the time or money to do huge advocacy programs or donate a huge amount? If you do, that's great! But most people in the current economy are unable to spare much money, and that's where the internet comes in. Many charitable organizations have websites that can help you with your awareness and advocacy. For example, freerice.com can donate rice meals to people without food with you merely expanding your vocabulary a little. The Action Center of the World Wildlife Fund's website will give you form letters that you can add your information to and you can advocate for things you believe in. These links can help you open your horizons to new things you can do for the world. 

Global Trashing.

I notice that a lot of people talk about global warming this, global warming that. What should be talked about much more than global warming, which is hotly debated, but the issue of what I call "global trashing." Every time a piece of trash is thrown onto the side of the road, it could be ingested by a foraging animal, rain could wash it into our water source and further contaminate our water system, or it could just sit there and make our world look ugly. People say "oh, it's okay, I only litter once in a while", but, surprise, surprise, it is most definitely not okay. Every time you leave a plastic bag around, it makes a roundabout journey, sometimes flying through the air, sometimes floating in a river, into our oceans. Have you heard of the garbage patch? Now, "garbage patch" brings up the mental image of a pseudo-island made of trash. Instead, it is a "gyre", which means it is a place, one in each oceans, where all the currents converge and all the trash gathers in a central location. This resemble a soup, about 3 feet deep, of floating plastic garbage. The largest in width is the Northern Pacific Gyre, which has been described as taking up twice as many square miles as Texas. This is just not okay. I mean think of that, twice as large as Texas, and three feet deep. There is a 6 to 1 ratio of trash to life in these areas. SIX TO ONE. Do you know what that ratio should be? ZERO. There should be no trash in the ocean. This is what is killing our oceans, and we have to stop it. So, stop littering, stop carelessness, and be earth-aware.  

Keep it Real

Everybody living nowadays has heard of the "green" fad. Some people go all in, going vegan and living in completely energy efficient houses, but some of us just don't have the time for that. Highschoolers, such as me, and others who have equally busy schedules dismiss being ecofriendly as something good in the long run, but not something possible for them. With all the things going on in our lives, we don't have time to be "green", right?! WRONG. There are many names to be a friend to our planet without going crazy or spending all our time on it. There are simple switches which you can make in your everyday life which will make your life more ecofriendly, and, sometimes, even easier.


Now, there are people who believe in and do not believe in man-made global warming, if you are ready to completely trash the idea of being green just because you don't believe in man-made global warming, you're not very smart. (no offense.) Even for those who think global warming is just a cycle the earth naturally goes through, being green is much more than global warming. You can't say that recycling, not dumping waste into our water, and keeping the smog levels low are all just part of the "propaganda piece" of global warming. It's not, it's just taking care of the only Earth we have.


This blog is about and for people who want to be green, and ways for them to make their life greener in simple and easy ways.