By artarmon42 | No Comments
Last updated: Sunday, July 8, 2007

I watched Live Earth yesterday, and am really glad that the message is getting out. I changed to CFL bulbs awhile back, and living in California got us into the good habit of recycling everything. There were a lot of interesting stats thrown out during the event, but the two that stuck in my mind were:

• Unplug devices when not in use. The prime examples being chargers, such as cell phone chargers. I’ve also got a lot of devices that require charging (from my Harmony 880 remote controls to my SoniCare Elite e9500 toothbrush) and have left the charger plugged in. This morning, I unplugged them all.
• Stop buying bottled water. When you dive into the details, it’s pretty crazy.
  • 24% of all the bottled water we buy, is tap water repackaged by Coke and Pepsi.
  • We consume so much bottled water, we’d need 37,800 18-wheelers to deliver it every week.
  • Water from obscure sources (like Fiji Water), needs to get to your local shop from Fiji. Think about the fossil fuels used to truck and fly that water to you.

I created Blue Sky Mining a few months back, which aggregates environmental issues & topics from around the Internet. It is a tribute to Australian band Midnight Oil’s song about how we profit today to the detriment of our future.

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