You may here the terms Eco-Friendly or Enviromental Issues every once in a while in your life. You may have seen a celeberety speak about the Enviromental Issues and how they effect us. Or you might have even bought something that has the label Eco-Friendly on it. But have you ever stop to take the time to relise what the enviroment actually is and what are some issues facing it? That's right Global warming is not the only issue there are several more. Lets start with the basics. Enviroment or the eco-system is the world that surrounds us today. It is made up of 117 known elements. Yes, there maybe more elements to this vast planet we live in that scientist have not discovered yet. It also contains a wide array of organisms, from the single cell organisms that live in the water, to human beings who contain 50 -75 trillion cells. You may have notice that we are included in the Eco-system. We are part of the earth and effect the way it works so we are a part of the enviroment. A lot of people don't seem to get this they think that the earth is something to be used to what best suits us. The ironic thing about this situation is that humans may have survived the harsh conditions of this earth without one factor, the human mind. We are not blessed with extraordinary strength, speed, or power but we still survived the many perolious things that expand over this globe. However, that mind lead to our down fall we began pulluting the earth with toxins and taking it to it's limits. This is causing natural disasters around the world, right now at this moment ther are three tropical storms/ hurricanes heading twards the east coast of the United States. This leads me to the biggest enviromental issue Global warming. Global warming refers to CO2 gasses causing a blanket over the earth traping solar rays in Eco-system.CO2 comes from ancient sunlight. That term may not make sense to you but it will after i explain where it comes from. Since humans have been on the earth there energy came from sunlight. Plants trap sunlight with a part of the cells in them called chlorophyll, we eat the plant or something that has ate the plant and took energy in from that. But, when those plants weren't ate they would decompose and fossiles in to coal or concentrate into oil leaving pockets of anciet sunlight The variable of even a few degrees warmer a year can be devistating on a world wide scale. Just a few degrees can cause the ice caps to melt adding fresh water to are oceans. In turn that would slow down the current that work by fluctulating the delicate balance of fresh an salt water. In turn that would mess eith the weather current causing a climate disaster. This may be the reason why were seeing a record breaking amount tornadoes ever! This brings me to another eco issue, pollution. Oil Spills, Liter, and Toxins all add to the polluting of Water, Land, and Air. Oil Spills pretty much can wipe out an enviroment for a few decades with cleaning and everything. Liter can add a variable to our enviroment that could seriously hurt it. So thats about it for my big eco lesson.
Alright this is the first of many series I hope to come to this blog. The post and what is used for is described in the 'how this blog will work' post in the month of August, look in the archive. So the Eco-Tip for this month is BYOB bring your own bottle. Water bottle for this matter. Many people hey i'll buy this diposable water bottle and maybe use it for the week. WRONG!!!! the diposable water bottles with the # 1 or 2 recycle seem toxins into your body after refilling it once. So the short and simple answer go with a tin or a nalgene type bottle. If you decide to use the nalgene bottle make sure it's BPA free. BPA is a chemical that was in a lot of water bottles before three or four months ago. It was proven to cause hormonal issues in peoples offsprings. So I wouldn't use old nalgene watere bottles or any with the recycle numbers 3,5, or 6 unless it was proven to be BPA free.
