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I'm saving the planet, ask me how!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:02 pm
by rubato
Keep hitting that snooze button and then take an extra day off now and again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... vironment/
I think I'll have some friends over, we can pray for more rain and a deal on some nice Puligny-Montrachet, and then clean the bathroom.
Saving the planet is easy if we all pitch in and just stop doing our part.
yrs,
rubato
Re: I'm saving the planet, ask me how!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:15 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
University students are being urged to urinate in the shower in a bid to save water.
The Go with the Flow campaign is the brainchild of students Debs Torr and Chris Dobson, from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich. They want the university's 15,000 students to take their first wee of the day while having their morning shower.
Mr Dobson, 20, said the idea could "save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 26 times".
The pair want those taking part to pledge their allegiance on Facebook and Twitter and have offered gift vouchers to the first people to join the challenge.
Water savings could result in: 720m litres annually if everybody in the UK took part
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-29552557
Re: I'm saving the planet, ask me how!
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:49 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
The actual activity itself, if you take out the transportation piece, is a very very low consumer of energy,"
The only problem with much of what he wrote is you can't take the transportation piece out of any of the equations. He notes that energy use is 5% less on Thanksgiving than on a typical day because more people (friends/relatives) gather at a single house thus others houses are using less energy. I have no doubt that household energy use goes down however, car useage goes way up on thanksgiving day and the days surrounding it. i would bet "total" energy use for thanksgiving day is way up over a regular day. Just driving around on Thanjsgiving day and noting the traffic can attest to that. Christmas eve/day would be similar.
Re: I'm saving the planet, ask me how!
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:42 am
by rubato
MajGenl.Meade wrote:University students are being urged to urinate in the shower in a bid to save water.
The Go with the Flow campaign is the brainchild of students Debs Torr and Chris Dobson, from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich. They want the university's 15,000 students to take their first wee of the day while having their morning shower.
Mr Dobson, 20, said the idea could "save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 26 times".
The pair want those taking part to pledge their allegiance on Facebook and Twitter and have offered gift vouchers to the first people to join the challenge.
Water savings could result in: 720m litres annually if everybody in the UK took part
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-29552557
You mean everyone doesn't already do this?
yrs,
rubato