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About Help Save Earth
The mission of this site is to make "going green" simple to understand, and will help people focus on the most influential things we can support, that will eventually have the biggest impact on our planet
Here are a couple questions we would like to provide you answers to...
Do you know which effort will decrease the greenhouse gases the most?
Do you know which effort will increase the amount of renewable energy usage?
Do you know which effort will improve the water quality and reduce the water pollution more than any other?
With this knowledge, we can properly focus our resources and money on the efforts that will give us the biggest "bang for our buck"!
We also want to provide you with a simple way to monitor how we (United States) are changing the actual numbers, so we know if all our efforts are making a difference or not. The Department of Energy has a huge database of information about this topic, we just want to make it easier for you to make sense of it, so you can see what impact your actions will have on the big picture of "going green"!
Here is an example of a chart we like to monitor...
Table 2.1. Energy Consumption by Sector by Year[4]
In Trillion BTU
Chart.
We also attempted to provide sources of our information as much as possible, so you can see why we added or left off an action from the list. We have some actions that have not made it onto our site, because we haven't found enough evidence supporting it, or don't know about it. Please contact us if we are missing something, or you don't agree with our statements.
If you'd like to learn what others have wrote about us...
Buy wood bats instead of aluminum
Since aluminum is the most energy intensive of all materials manufactured, buy a baseball or softball bat made of renewable wood or bamboo
There are 166actions on this website that you can take to help save the earth!
How many "earth-saving" points can you earn? There are 1007 possible points! Find out for free by signing up today!
"We went super-cheap on our wedding: no guests, one notary ($100), marriage license ($100), nearby chapel (used back area near beach, no cost), no rentals or dresses (used clothing we already had), wedding and engagement rings ($500), no gifts asked for (or received), and no party (except a small cake for $5). Doesn't work for everyone, but we were very happy with it..."
hbomb7 on 7/4/2009 about the action Green your wedding