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April 12th 2008 05:33
For those of you with pay TV (I am afraid I don't have it) there is an excellent program airing in Australia this Sunday night on the National Geographic channel, it is a show on the Human Footprint and it analyses all our activities to assess the impact our actions have on the earth.
It would be a really good way to get some perspective and work out how much you are helping by adhering to even just a few of the concepts in the Compact -click here to read about the compact-
I think we would all be surprised at how much damage the smallest things do.
Here is a synopsis of the show in the words of the host for those like me who have no pay tv, CLICK HERE
there are also video links CLICK HERE
What was the most shocking fact you learned while filming Human Footprint?
Vargas: I was amazed at how much Americans actually throw away. We will generate 246 million tons of trash this year alone. We will throw away 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars and 36 billion aluminum cans. And I never knew that packaging alone accounts for 33 percent of the trash we make. It is amazing to think about what we leave behind just in landfills.
What do you hope viewers will learn from this show?
Vargas: I hope that everyone watching this show can see that as each of us has an impact, each of us has a footprint. We also each have a responsibility to monitor our consumption and work on reducing our footprint. I know that every new fact I learned has helped me to look at my household and ways that we can reduce our consumption.
If each of us just lowers the thermostat 2 degrees in wintertime and raises it 2 degrees in summertime, we could each save 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year.
CheersVargas: I was amazed at how much Americans actually throw away. We will generate 246 million tons of trash this year alone. We will throw away 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars and 36 billion aluminum cans. And I never knew that packaging alone accounts for 33 percent of the trash we make. It is amazing to think about what we leave behind just in landfills.
What do you hope viewers will learn from this show?
Vargas: I hope that everyone watching this show can see that as each of us has an impact, each of us has a footprint. We also each have a responsibility to monitor our consumption and work on reducing our footprint. I know that every new fact I learned has helped me to look at my household and ways that we can reduce our consumption.
If each of us just lowers the thermostat 2 degrees in wintertime and raises it 2 degrees in summertime, we could each save 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year.
Louie
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It is a problem, I would like to think there was a way of preserving edible rubbish, compacting it ( hate to use that word) and send it overseas to needy areas but things just do not seem to work that way.
Starting with packaging excesses in supermarkets would be a useful start.
But food scraps, I'm miffed, just what else can you do with banana skins and vegetable peelings?
Thanks for drawing our attention to the program, Louie.