Read + Write + Report
Home | Start a blog | About Orble | FAQ | Sites | Writers | Advertise | My Orble | Login

Environment Damaging Companies

March 27th 2007 23:51
We all know that industry is slower and more hesitant to protect our world, our environment.
Unfortunately it is the individual, the communities that are doing the hardest work in this area.
Protecting our world isn’t just some “Greenie” thing anymore, it’s about survival, and it’s about caring for our world.
In our personal lives, morals such as respect, caring for loved ones, caring for ourselves, our possessions, and others – all rate highly in concluding that a person is of good character. Yet we don’t have the same ideals for our environment.
Slowly things are beginning to change, individuals, couples, families and small groups are all taking the opportunity to make some changes.

I must say I am concerned that the gestures are just that, gestures. Many of us seem to be changing, yet we then turn around and go for a drive just because or throw away items that could be recycled or composted or even buying shares in companies that are ripping our world to shreds.
I started to go off track just then. The real purpose for this item is to highlight the issue of companies world wide insisting on destroying the world we live in just because of the material possessions, the life-style we all demand.
If the demand wasn’t there, then the companies would have to listen, they would change because we have demanded that.
It’s simple to make these changes. I have highlighted some in an earlier blog:
Buy local produce
Insist on environmentally friendly items
Buy shares in companies that are making the changes
Don’t support brown coal trading
Change your power supply to energy efficient sources.

Those that can afford to trade shares can make a real impact on our world. If you don’t purchase shares from uranium miners, oil trader, brown coal miners and traders, and of course, the companies that use these resources, then you will make a difference, you will be a powerful voice in making the changes to the world that are urgently needed.


Do you remember the Exon Valdese oil spill out in the ocean where images were broadcast of innocent animal covered in oil and dying?? In it’s time, it was the largest oil spill in the world. Did you know since then there have been around 200 bigger spills? Yes, bigger! They don’t even make the headlines anymore and nobody even blinks about it.
If industry changed its ways, seriously developed better ways of production, then the demands for oil will reduce substantially, this will then create a positive domino effect on the environment, there will be less oil spills, less omissions and less hard to the world.

Who knows, uniting for a common cause may, over time even bring more peace to our world. Imagine living in our world knowing it is healthy and peaceful at the same time………….
90
Vote
   


AUSTRALIA

March 20th 2007 21:11
.......................is the highest user, per person of water in the world.

What a terrible thing to be the highest at!

Australia is also one of the highest, if not THE highest user and exporter of BROWN COAL, this type of coal is used for producing cheap, nasty energy. Chances are, if you have electricity thats not sourced from GREEN ENERGY, then you are also contributing to the environmental pollution, global warming that BROWN COAL produces.

GREEN ENERGY costs so much because the demand isn't there yet and because GOVERNMENTS refuse to let go of some of their CHEAP and NASTY $$$$$$..

Dirty Money is NEVER Good Money.



COME ON AUSTRALIA, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!
81
Vote
   


40 HOUR DROUGHT

March 19th 2007 00:05
19/03/07
Now, this is a great idea!
Based on the traditional 40 Hour Famine, the “40 HOUR DROUGHT” asks us to take a serious look at our water usage and what it's doing to our world and our environment.

In a nutshell, during the 40 hour period, you are allowed to use 40 litres of water ONLY.

ABC Australia have organised the 40 HOUR DROUGHT for 7 am Wednesday 21st March till 11pm Thursday 22nd March.

I encourage everyone to participate in this opportunity, not only will it help our environment for the 40 hour period, it may also encourage us to look harder at what we are doing.

Although registering is optional, I encourage you to do so, go to the following link:

Really Long Link


…. No long showers, no forgetting to turn the back sprinkler off, no dishwasher and especially no wasting water during this time…come on! It can’t be that hard, more and more people, FAMILIES are forced to live like this - and worse.

Don’t forget to spread the word about this, we only have a couple of days, so copy and paste this link to all in our address book.

Tracie


..............
...................
.........................
.............................
.........................
....................
..............

WELL.............Hope you have registered and prepared yourself for the challenge! This should be a great initiative for us all.....a real eye opener.......

28/03/07

How did you go?
I am ashamed to say our house failed dismally.
I am so treeibly embarrassed by this. I thought it would be easy for us to do. We are so great at conserving water, recycling where we can and truly enjoying it.
For 2 days prior to the start date, we had rain in our area..a drourgh for years and It rains for 2 days right now! We had a huge basket of washing and I wasn’t too stressed thinking we would get by. Next thing my daughter gets sick with bronchitis and must have caught an extra bug as she needed to spend most of the night in the toilet. So then there was the accident in her bed and in her pyjamas – more washing and this is the sort of washing that can’t just sit for a few day, and of course, the shower in the middle of the night and the next morning, so in the first 12 hours I failed. The next day, being so tired from caring for my sick daughter and washing all day, I overflowed the kitchen sink – I never do this! I just walked away and forgot about what I was doing.
If there were a worse case experience this would be it.
I am sure you know how I feel with this, I was so excited and desperately wanted to support such a great cause and it just didn’t work.
I am not going to let this stop me from making an effort every day and I do know I have to create ways of dealing with such situation which will still conserve water and protect our environment.
99
Vote
   


FOOD -Buy Local/Grow your own

March 10th 2007 02:51
Reducing Co2 emissions, protecting our environment, saving fuel, reducing costs, insisting on quality and striving for a better world are all things we are working hard to do, it's just so difficult to get Governments and Industry to stop, look and listen to the earth, listen to the people.

One REALLY BIG way of reducing CO2 emissions etc is changing the food we eat. Yes, i know, this sounds strange, but it's a really powerful way of changing the environment


[ Click here to read more ]
96
Vote
   


web sites

March 8th 2007 05:00
here are some good web sites with great infomration.
Although some of them may not be from your region, they will stillhave good, strong ideas and ways we can all assist.

[ Click here to read more ]
86
Vote
   


Poems on our environment

March 1st 2007 23:57
This was sent to me via an email. I think it is such an emotional and so true expression of the reality we are facing...............


[ Click here to read more ]
73
Vote
   


BORE WATER / RECYCLED WATER

March 1st 2007 01:06
Don't you think it's great that individuals and businesses are beginning to use water from rainwater tanks, grey water or even sinking a bore to take the water from underground?

I think it's wonderful that we are beginning to finally understand that although the world is made up of mostly water, this water is not useable for our needs and the useable water is becoming less and less available, in some areas causing intense drought conditions or even major flooding


[ Click here to read more ]
70
Vote
   


CARBON CREDITS

March 1st 2007 00:49
CARBON CREDITS are a great idea.
It's one we can all get involved in and don't have to wait for Governments or Corporate Entities to make a move.

[ Click here to read more ]
66
Vote
   


recycled paper-is it really good?

February 28th 2007 00:12
I support recycling anything as much as we can, the more we do it the better our world will be.
We just aren’t doing it enough and perhaps at times we aren’t doing it correctly either. We have become too much of a disposable society. This of course will be argued as beneficial to the world given the pace it is moving, the lack of time in our lives and the convenience of disposable/replaceable goods.
The concern for recycling, (in particular recycled paper), is the process the paper products go through to then become a re-useable, recycled product


[ Click here to read more ]
69
Vote
   


More Posts
8 Posts
1 Posts
9 Posts dating from February 2007
Email Subscription
Receive e-mail notifications of new posts on this blog:

Tracie Jarvis - The Power of Talk's Blogs

153 Vote(s)
0 Comment(s)
6 Post(s)
73 Vote(s)
0 Comment(s)
3 Post(s)
119 Vote(s)
0 Comment(s)
4 Post(s)
93 Vote(s)
3 Comment(s)
4 Post(s)
62 Vote(s)
0 Comment(s)
3 Post(s)
44 Vote(s)
0 Comment(s)
2 Post(s)
Copyright © 2006 2007 2008 On Topic Media PTY LTD. All Rights Reserved. Design by Vimu.com.
On Topic Media ZPages: Sydney |  Melbourne |  Brisbane |  London |  Birmingham |  Leeds     [ Advertise ] [ Contact Us ] [ Privacy Policy ]