When you were a kid your parents always told you to turn off the lights and don’t run the water… AND YOU STILL ARE NOT LISTENING!
Our lights are on all the time, I even know people who leave their outside lights and hall lights on when they go to sleep. So is our TV…our radio…our computer…and because we want instant-on we have power-strips that keep everything in ‘hot standby’…In fact a big waste is all those chargers for phones, iPods, computers, and more. Did you notice that those chargers are warm? That’s because they have power to them and they eat up more than $100 in electrical power every year…that’s every house…every condo, every apartment…every year! That’s hundreds of millions of dollars in waste by all of us every year…and that’s just the start.
What about water… we pump it, clean it, distribute it, process it, we heat it… we pay for it, AND WE WASTE IT!
We run the water to get it warm, to get it cold, to rinse off dishes going into the dish washer, water the grass (even during rain storms)… we let the hose run while washing the car, the shower run while we get ready to jump in…the sink run while we are shaving, washing, brushing teeth… heck we let it run just to let it run… water is perhaps the most endangered natural resource in the world. Eighty percent of the world’s surface I covered by water, less than five percent of that is non-salt…and only ten percent of that is potable. That means that millions of humans get ill each year from dirty water…and we let it run just to let it run…and again, we pay for it and we throw it away. DON’T LET THE WATER RUN!
We are in a struggle for meaningful sources of renewable energy and clean water…and the winner of this race may very well control the fate of mankind. We need to solve these problems in a way that keeps the environment and the economy in balance…we need to engage Sustainable Practices in all that we do, and we need to do it now… and our first steps… listen to your parents…turn out the lights and don’t run the water.
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