environment protection

My Environment Inc.

Everyone can make a big 
difference

It is obvious that we can see and felt the earth is changing significantly. All the creatures are experiencing climate change, global warming, and natural disasters that are more frequent than back in old days. It has alarmed us is time to awake and not until the world become irremediable.

Importance of Environmental protections

Environmental protection means that human beings consciously protect and reasonably make use of natural resources and prevent natural environment from pollution and destruction;to the environment that has been polluted and destroyed comprehensive management measures have to be taken to create an environment suitable for human life and work. 

• Our existence (human, animals and plants) depend on environment because we live in a closed interrelated system.
• Maintaining the environment helps preserve animal species that combine with the environment to help maintain plants (seed dispersion, pollination by insects, etc) on which we depend.
• Maintaining the environment allows future generations of humans to grow and live without having to deal with anything we've done to contaminate the environment in which we do live and they will live.

How can you help to protect it?
1. Electricity


Electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels namely natural gas and crude oil, which are non-renewable sources of energy. The burning of these fuels produces pollutants and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), which is often associated with global warming. 

Tips:
- Switch these offwhen not in use: Lights, Air conditioning (do not over cool and close doors and windows when the air-conditioning is on), computers,and other appliance that consume electricity. 
- Shopping: Many products are now helping you to reduce your energy use and your parents’ energy bills! Check new products for their efficiency grade and rating and keep an eye out for the Energy Efficiency Recommended logo.
- Solar Panel: Solar panels create electricity from sunlight, which can then be used to power their homes. Solar heating panels make hot water, reducing the need for electricity or gas to heat water or run the central heating system.

2. Pollution

Pollution is caused when harmful or poisonous substances are released or found in the air, rivers, seas, animals, plants or even our bodies from the factories and cars. 

Tips:
- Don’t drop litter: Birds and animals can mistake litter for food. Litter can end up in rivers and block drains, or in the sea and be eaten by fish. Also, some litter will stay around for thousands of years
- On your bike: Instead of taking the car get your bicycle out or walk, it is also good for health and exercise too. 
- Pleasing products : Many household cleaning products contain harmful chemicals which are washed down the drain. Encourage your parents to buy eco-friendly products or even make your own from natural substances

3. Rubbish


Every year we produce millions and millions tonnes of waste. We throw them away and many of these things are made up of natural resources such as trees, coal, oil and aluminium and one day some of these resources will be used up completely. Also recycling those substances would save up lots of energy to make a new one. 

Tips:
- Packaging: Packaging is a big problem for the environment, so avoid buying products that have a lot of paper and plastic around them.
- sort it out: Classify those rubbish into several category at home or use the recycle bin in the public place.
- Plastic Bags: Reusing the bags to shop 
- Reuse them: Give any unwanted clothes to charity shops or to a Salvation Army recycling bank and save trees by recycling your own paper.Paper with a clean side can be made into notepads with a simple staple.

4. Deforestations


Rainforest are important because they can produce us oxygen through photosynthesis and help to regulate the world's climate and atmosphere. About half of all the species of animals and plants in the world live in rainforests and thousands of rainforest plants contain substances that can be used in medicines. Rainforests has been destroyed every year and now only cover 6% of the world as we cut down the trees for materials

Tips:
- Good wood & flowers: Tropical hardwoods such as teak and mahogany are grown in rainforests and take hundreds of years to grow so avoid any products made with these woods. It is better have products made with pine, beech, ash or oak. Orchids are popular in florists, but many come from the rainforest, check before you buy them 
- Protected Pets: Avoid purchase those pets comes from the wild for example parrots and macaws, this can gradually stops buyers from importing. 
- Save trees: reused of papers.


DO YOUR BITS & SAVE THE EARTH!