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prieten47
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Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
February 18, 2008 - 07:27 AM
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As environmentally aware as I am, I am still an environmental sinner:
I love fruit. I have to have fruit. I can't start the day off without fruit. I like to eat nuts with my fruit.
Unfortunately, not much fruit comes from close by here in Japan. Bananas and pineapples come from the Philippines and Central America, grapefruit from the USA, kiwi from New Zealand, nuts fromt the USA, etc.
Believe it or not, apples, persimmons, tangerines, melons and strawberries are about the only fruits grown here in Japan. I do eat lots of those, but they are not always in season.
All that "fruit travel" probably causes global warming. I should cut it out.
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
February 18, 2008 - 12:58 PM
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I am brought up with a non-vegetarian food-habit. Though I don't eat meat (except occasionally the meat of goat) my food-chart includes mainly Fish, Chicken & Eggs regularly. Hence, when I learned... If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to research by the University of Chicago.... I tried to opt for Veg-Plate. But suddenly i realised that though I left Non-Veg, i's still continuing consumption of Dairy Products. To confess, eating a Veg. Pizza was no less an Environmental Sin than eating a Lassanha. Forget it...i don't go to restaurants, regularly, but practically, a glass of milk or intake of yougehurt make me a sinner everyday!!
Like this I can prompt hundreds of situations where i could have reduced my Carbon-Footprint each-day!! But most of the time, my urbane Life-style prevent me to do so...
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nguyen thi ngoc bich
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
February 19, 2008 - 09:11 AM
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Hello!
Well, You are living in Japan. and I also know JP must import many fruits from other Asian countries.
and Fruit in JP is very expensive  .
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Christy W
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
February 23, 2008 - 12:51 PM
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My showers are too long, I don't always turn of the lights or electric heat when but glad to say I'm working on it!
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
February 24, 2008 - 06:13 AM
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Dear Christy,
you should look up my "Americans shower too much!" thread that I started last year. That sure unleashed an argument between shower-lovers and myself. I like a shower, too. But even with water-saving showerheads, gallons and gallons of heated water are used. I tried to get everyone to imagine trying to heat up all that water on their kitchen stove, so that they would see it isn't just water that gets wasted.
Many people felt strongly they had to have a shower every day for hygienic reasons. This just isn't the case. Everyone is different, of course, but I shower only every three or four days. I re-wear the same clothes during that period, only changing socks and underwear. Think of all the laundry one would save by doing that!
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
March 3, 2008 - 06:44 PM
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From reading some of these posts, I'm the most environmentally savy when I'm overworked and forget to shower once a day and pull on yesterday jeans.  For me, its a give and take. I'll keep my showers, but I try to give up stuff or rearrange my schedule (like working all my work hrs on weekends so that I drive less even though its pretty rough). My greatest sin is, I think, recycling. I live in an apartment and there's no option to recycle. I could recycle anyways and take my trash to my moms house to recycle but then that involves driving a ways so then its a question if its worth it and I'm basically so busy I'd probably keep putting off taking the trash to my moms till my whole apartment was full with it.
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Christy W
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
March 8, 2008 - 01:01 PM
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Here to vent some of my environmental sins once again, I use plastic shopping bags and I don't ask for a glass mug at Tim Hortons. These things will be changing in the near future. With regards to the shower issue, I am consciously taking shorter showers and turning off lights and removing electrical plugs when I leave rooms, so there is some progress being made on that front i'm glad to say.
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
March 9, 2008 - 07:28 AM
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Dear Christy and Confounded, thanks for your posts. Are you boiling water with the top on the kettle? the cover on the pot when you are cooking something?
I know water boils faster when you put a cover on the pot.
Have you thought about bicycling to school/work? I get such a kick out of riding my bike to work and back, leaving the car in the garage. I think I have to fill my gas tank only once a month these days (Toyota Tercel only has a 12 gallon gas tank). The furthest I ride is about 8 miles.
Oh, I'm sorry, this isn't a bragging thread, it's an environmental sin confession thread!
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
March 9, 2008 - 09:06 PM
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We heat water with the microwave. My understanding is that less energy is used heating with a microwave.
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Re: Confess your environmental sins, I'll start
March 10, 2008 - 09:15 PM
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rsmarg wrote:
We heat water with the microwave. My understanding is that less energy is used heating with a microwave.
That's an interesting idea. I found this article that is a study on microwave energy efficiency.
http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/ttp/courses/ttp289a007/HEM_18-3_microwaveovens.pdf
Frankyly, I don't understand it's conclusions. At one point it says an electric stove top is more efficient than a microwave for boiling water, but in the next paragraph it says people tend to boil smaller amounts of water in a microwave and might save energy. Confusing!
The article also cautions microwave users that their microwave might be wasting energy when it is off! Apparently they have stand-by features just like TV's and the microwaves electric clock uses electricity, too. Unplug when not in use, they say. In fairness, I have seen gas and electric ranges that have clocks, too.
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