Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air

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I have a HUUUUGE list for free available at www agua-luna com it’s like 33 pages long & would just spam this whole answer. But here’s a few cut from the list below. If you’d like the entire list feel free to visit www agua-luna com or email me through the site directly & I’ll send you a free copy.

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You could also Volunteer with us, planting a tree or working on a Sustainable Renewable Energy Building Project in Mexico OR The Amazon. Again see www agua-luna com for more info.

If you can’t join us here are some ways you can at least contribute from home..

Recycle paper, cardboard, newsprint & magazines.
Recycle aluminum cans.
Recycle all batteries.
Recycle & reuse. Roughly 50% of the average person’s trash can be recycled. Don’t forget that hazardous waste like batteries, your printer’s ink cartridges, & cell phones can be recycled too! Find out how & where to recycle in your area. Always buy recycled paper. Just 1 ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees.
Just because your community doesn’t pick up all recyclables on the curb, it doesn’t mean there are not viable alternatives nearby. Check with dry cleaners, supermarkets, manufacturers, your local public works department & civic organizations to find out where recycled goods can be dropped off, at a location near you.
Did you know that just in 1995 alone, recycled toner cartridges kept over 21,000 tons of trash out of landfills? Believe it or not, now you can recycle your printer’s toner cartridges! Every year, Americans throw out enough printer cartridges to stretch from Los Angeles to New York City & back again. Toner cartridges can be recycled, having just as good a performance as an unrecycled cartridge. To recycle your toner cartridges, find a local business that does printer cartridge recycling, or contact the manufacturer of your current toner cartridge & ask about a cartridge recycling program.
Not only should you recycle, but buy products that are recycled. By purchasing these products, you are helping to conserve natural resources, & to protect the environment.
Wash clothes in cold water.
Hot water is unnecessary for most clothes. When needed, use warm water.
Fill your toilet tank.
Put a plastic bottle or two, filled with water & rocks, in your tank to reduce the amount of water used in each flush.
Clean your filters.
Clean the filters of your air-conditioners once a month to improve energy efficiency. While you’re at it, change your car’s filters as recommended in your manual.
Get a low-flow shower head.
Stop at the hardware store on your way home, & get a low-flow shower head. Takes a few minutes to install, & it’ll save gallons of water a day.
Lower your thermostats.
If you use heating, get by with less heat & wear warmer clothes. If you use air-conditioning, get by with less cooling & wear cooler clothes.
If it’s a nice sunny day, hanging clothes only takes a few minutes, & you’re using solar power instead of electricity to do the job. It also makes your clothes last longer.
Turn down your water heater.
Most people have their water heater’s thermostat turned up too high, wasting energy. Turn it down to 130 degrees, saving energy but still hot enough to kill bacteria.
Use CFC light bulbs.

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online & on-site workshops, seminars & internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

admin answers:

Do you mean how would it change us if we discovered that global warming is merely a fear campaign? Because obviously most of us already believe that we are living in a time of man-made global warming. And even without the effects of man’s works there is evidence from other planets that our whole solar system is going thru a time of “global warming”. Even knowing we live on the verge of an energy crisis, that we are quite possibly only months from a crisis in transportation of food into cities, of failure of heat and lights to millions, Americans continue to buy SUVs that suck down gasoline as if an oil pipeline ran directly to each person’s front door and a huge gap grows between the rich and the poor. Huge houses are built that take tremendous resources to light and heat for the upper class and a growing lower class struggles to have food and a decent place to live and basic health care. For this lower class, global warming, is just something that means their lives are more miserable because they can’t afford air conditioning in the hotter summers that are lasting longer. What would happen from a planetary wide trust that global warming is happening? Exactly the same thing that is happening now. Too few people who have power are willing to give up their luxuries. The oil companies are going to suck the last dollar they can from this planet.

I’m afraid I haven’t even begun to make an answer to your question. I didn’t really understand exactly what your question was. But maybe I’ve made a start at a dialog.

Having seen your additional explaination, I see that my approach was wrong. Were we to assume that a significant majority of the population of the world truly believed that global warming was about to bring about catastrophic changes to our planet I suspect that we would see centralization of power and martial law become the norm. The U.N.’s Agenda 21 and our own government’s recent cavalier treatment of the Constitution is already setting the stage for such centralization. Use of all petroleum based fuels would undoubtedly be rationed and limited to military and goverment use, except by special permit. Solar, wind and nuclear power would be the main power sources available to our world to begin with tho’ undoubtedly, there would be a rush to find new power sources. People would have to choose between having nuclear powered electricity or no electricity as coal powered electrical plants were shut down. Undoubtedly, to begin with, there would be “brown outs”– times when the electricity was shut off to reduce the amount of man-made emissions. It would become illegal to run air-condition unless temperatures were in the 90’s. The demand for solar panels would probably drive the price up, tho’ with a world wide crisis and more demand, better cheaper ways of manufacturing them might come about so that the price might drop, making solar power for every home eventually a reality. But there could be other crises. In large, inner cities, there could be a very real possibility of starvation and lack of water. Without fuel for trucking to bring food to cities, grocery shelves would be depleted within days. When there is no electricity to run pumps, there’s no water. Certainly this is a grim outlook and is it to be hoped that authorities would have planned ahead better, but considering the fiasco of Katrina it seems safe to say that at least some cities in the world would be in dire straits as fuel stores were depleted or hoarded by government and military. Without food or safe drinking water, many city dwellers would undoubtedly try to make it out into the countryside, but they would find no welcome there. Though country dwellers would at least have the possibility of raising there own food, even if anything has been left to them under martial law they are going to be desperate to hold on to what they have for themselves and their families. If the world population truly believed that global warming is going to bring on a crisis for our planet, each nation would do well to immediately begin putting in place the infrastructure for switching to the alternative energies we have available now i.e. Wind, solar, and nuclear. Tho’ nuclear power has it’s inherent problems they must be overcome to provide safe power for the world. While I am not a Globalist and will never support Agenda 21, a true world crisis deserves a world solution. Industrialized nations having been the major cause of the green house effect, should rightly bear the brunt of the expense of the research and development of new technologies for dealing with the crisis.

And then, after all this, is there harm in believing in theoretical B.S.? What if this is just the excuse needed panic people into accepting martial law? Look at all the freedoms we’ve given up since 2001 because of the fear of terrorists. So if we were afraid our world was really, really in trouble and we were all going to die, what might some give up, to save themselves? I say, it can do a lot of harm to believe falsehoods. Especially ones that panic you into ill-conceived actions. In the end, you are more likely to wind up with a far worse situation than the one you thought you were working against.