How we can Help the Planet: Part 6

         Five ideas you can use to help the Earth:

• Become truly motivated to make a difference in the world. You don't necessarily need to help the planet with this one, even though it is recommended, but the more people around the world who follow their dreams will make the world a better place as well as create a more pleasant atmosphere.
• Collecting rain water is a great way to save water in your community. The water that we don't catch just goes down the drain and into the ocean, but if we catch the rainwater, we can use if for practical purposes, like watering the plants and turning the sprinklers off, giving your pet some water, and even boil it for human consumption.
• Make sure to turn off everything when you leave a room for a long period of time. If you leave to go to the store or to go to an event, the lights, computer, air conditioning, fans, etc should all be off. It is just a waste of energy otherwise. The only argument is the air conditioning, but that uses a lot of electricity and cools a house fairly quickly once it is turned on, so you will only have to deal with a short period of heat in your house.
• Don't rinse dishes before putting them in the wash. Not only do you save time, but you can also save up to 20 gallons of water by just allowing the washing machine to do what it was designed to do. It also saves energy because many people rinse with hot water, and water requires energy to heat the temperature many people like.
• Run errands in bunches. Basically, if you know you need you need to go grocery shopping, but you also feel like you might want a book, a game, a new light bulb, or anything that you might need in the near future, buy it while you are out. Not only do you save time by not needing to go back and forth, but you also save gas and may not even have to drive to several places if everything you need is in one mall.

Help the Earth by sharing this blog. I know that this is not the most professional blog out there, nor the most informative, I just want to help the planet in the way I find as most effective. Thank you all for reading and these short lists will continue for as long as I can think of ways to help the Earth.
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League of Legends can help World: Part 1

         Before I start this off, I am using League of Legends because it is the biggest video game in the world, but this could apply to all video games.
         This may seem like an interesting topic to focus on considering this blog focuses on the well being of the Earth, but hear me out. The world is a beautiful, and video games simulate worlds that individual people see as beautiful in there own ways. So why can't we all just love Earth? Why can't we all form a community, like the thousands of enormous gaming communities, and play a game on Earth? A game where we try to make the most optimal Earth we possibly can. I am going to go over different genres of games and how each one could have an impact on the world, but for now I am going to focus on video games as a whole.
          People spend 3 billion of hours of games playing video games a week. Not a year, not a month, but a week. That is ridiculous and should be much less. I like video games, and believe me, I can sometimes get wrapped up in a game for hours if I don't pay attention to the time. However, that is not what I do all the time, I do other things, mostly school and sports, to help the community and make myself a better person. Every single person who spends too much time playing video games is just wasting their potential.
          Enough hating on video game players. Don't worry, I am one too and I know that I play too much at times. Anyway, video games and social media have opened up a huge new world for us. I said before that every new game creates a new world for people to explore, and this allows people to ignore reality. Some people may use it as an escape from stress, some from family or personal issues, and other because they are addicted. However, whatever the reason, people are beginning to lose sight of the world we live in right now, and that is unacceptable. People have to realize that the world we live on now is the most beautiful world they have ever seen.
          Video games have a hidden potential that could bring the entire world together without having to wait 4 years per event. Video games have formed great communities of millions of people, just imagine if these communities focused on something outside of the game. I know what they could do. They could stop pretending to be a hero in a game, and be a real hero and help save the world. Lets be honest, everyone, not just gamers, have dreamed of saving the world one time or another, and now with the power of communities formed by video games and social media anyone can do it.

Help the Earth by sharing this blog. I know that this is not the most professional blog out there, nor the most informative, I just want to help the planet in the way I find as most effective. Thank you all for reading and these short lists will continue for as long as I can think of ways to help the Earth.
          Follow on twitter at Planet Earth and visit the Facebook page at Let's Give The World A Chance. Don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe, oh wait, this isn't YouTube. Anyway, stay green Earth, see you all next post.

PART 2 WILL BE OUT THE DAY WORLDS BEGINS IN LEAGUE. 

How can we Help the Planet: Part 5

          Five ideas you can use to help the Earth:

• Stop and smell the roses, both figuratively and literally. Roses are an extremely beautiful part of nature, and it is something everyone can appreciate and love. Also, learning to love just one part of nature is a step in the right direction. The saying means "to appreciate life", which is something most people should do because we are human, the species with the most benefits in the world.
• Write smaller. This helps save paper and usually smaller hand writing is more neat anyway. However, don't write too small, because it still needs to be legible. You don't want to get an F on a paper just because you were trying to save a sheet of paper, just keep the size of your handwriting in the back of your mind.
• Take shorter showers. This one is a simple one that almost anyone can do. You don't have to sing, I mean perform, in the shower if it means you are in there for 10 minutes longer than you have to. A shower only needs to be 5 to 10 minutes and it can save several gallons of water as well as a lot of energy. Visit, http://www.greenlifestylechanges.com/take-5-minute-showers/, for more information.
• Don't charge your phone overnight. This wastes energy because the phone is constantly being charged throughout the night and kept on. It also drains the battery of your phone faster, just like keeping a laptop plugged in at all times leads to its battery have a very short life when not plugged in.
• Use a white board. A white board is a great place to write down notes without wasting any material. They last a long time and the markers last a long time as well if used correctly and not to color. It can have several notes on it depending on how big you right, the writing is easy to remove so you can have more notes, and it is magnetic, so you can stick papers to it to save room on your desk.

Help the Earth by sharing this blog. I know that this is not the most professional blog out there, nor the most informative, I just want to help the planet in the way I find as most effective. Thank you all for reading and these short lists will continue for as long as I can think of ways to help the Earth.
          Follow on twitter at Planet Earth and visit the Facebook page at Let's Give The World A Chance. Don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe, oh wait, this isn't YouTube. Anyway, stay green Earth, see you all next post.

How Can we Help the Earth: Part 4

          Five ideas you can use to help the Earth:

• Use paper instead of plastic. Those trash islands in the oceans are made up of mostly plastic, especially plastic bags. Next time you get asked the question, "Paper or Plastic?", chose paper.
• Bring your own cloth bags from home. It may be a hassle, but just imagine how much less trash would litter our ocean if every person brought their own bags to the store.
• Use plastic cups. This may seem like it goes against things i have said in the past, but hear me out. Write your name on an individual cup and use that cup, rinse it out when you are done with it, then use it again next time. This works especially well with water, but works with all drinks. This saves water because it means you can fit more stuff in the washing machine, and it isn't extremely wasteful because you get several uses out of one cup.
• Get more sleep. This one is more helpful to you but think about it this way, the more you are asleep, the less you can damage the environment. The less you eat, use electricity, produce waste, etc.
• Take a moment before doing anything and ask yourself if what you are doing will damage the environment. For example, should you drive 5 minutes to the drug store or ride a bike/walk? Which one will damage the environment less? What you do should be based on the answer to the second question. Lastly, this tip should be used within reason. You should drive if you work 30 minutes away, you don't need to reuse everything, drive if you re pressed for time, etc.

           Help the Earth by sharing this blog. I know that this is not the most professional blog out there, nor the most informative, I just want to help the planet in the way I find as most effective. Thank you all for reading and these short lists will continue for as long as I can think of ways to help the Earth.
          Follow on twitter at Planet Earth and visit the Facebook page at Let's Give The World A Chance. Don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe, oh wait, this isn't YouTube. Anyway, stay green Earth, see you all next post.

Being Human on a Planet that is 4.5 Billion Years Old

Everyone reading this blog post is Human, unless someone trained their dog REALLY well, and we share this planet with approximately 8.7 million other species. We are not the fastest, the biggest, the most numerous, or the strongest, but we are the smartest. we have explored the majority of the surface of our planet and explored a lot of space outside of our planet. We have solved almost every problem we have come across. It was cold so we made fire, we wanted to explore so we invented the wheel, we got sick so we found an antidote, we wanted to entertain ourselves constantly so we made social media, etc. We have done a lot of good for ourselves, but at what cost to everything else?

          First of all, we have polluted and damaged almost every part of the Earth if not all of it. we had devastating wars that make large amounts of land uninhabitable by anything without consequence, and we tend to believe that all other life on this planet is less than our own. Don't git me wrong, I love being a human, but we have done some pretty bad things. Worst part is, we have done so much bad in such a short period of time that the Earth can not keep up. 

          So the Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years, and humans have existed for 200,000 years. To put this into perspective, if you take the longest book in the world, Artamene with 2.1 million words, and compared it to the Earth's existence, human's existence wouldn't even be a paragraph. If the height of mount Everest represented the Earth's age, then the mountain representing our existence  would be shorter than a newborn baby. 

          You see, up until about 200 years ago, humans were not all that harmful to the environment, but these past 200 years have ruined that reputation. The Earth has had a system of taking care of itself for its whole life, it just takes a while. The dinosaurs going extinct and dust filling the sky after the meteor hit 65 million years ago took millions of years for the Earth to recover. An ice age lasts for thousands of years to go away. In fact, an increase of CO2 levels like ours today would take 5000 to 20000 years under normal circumstances. Yet here we are, raising the world’s average temp by 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit in 200 years and raising the oceans acidity by .1 pH, or lowering the pH by .1 on the pH scale. This means that, at this rate, at the end of the century most of the shelled species in our oceans will be extinct or endangered which will devastate our oceans. Not only that, but the increase of the Earth’s temperature also creates a lot of problems, most of which I went over in another post.

            It is true that the Earth goes through stages and has always recovered from them, but up until now it has always had time to adapt. Humans have disturbed 4.5 billion years of evolution and sustainability in 200 years all because we want to make things better for us. Being a Human on Earth is great, but being any other species is miserable. If we don’t change our ways and learn to respect the 8.7 million other species we share this Earth with, we will bring about the end of the world.

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