CBC's George Stroumboulopoulos has started a project called One Million Acts of Green. In an attempt to raise awareness about the environment, the project encourages everyone to change one "little thing" that will mean so much to the environment. Each day on the Website, green.cbc.ca, these "little" suggestions are posted. For example, today's Act of Green was to replace and recycle old appliances with ENERGY STAR Appliances (green.cbc.ca). Of course, not all of these daily acts are affordable at that exact moment to all people. All the daily acts serve as are suggestions to help save the environment. They even suggest simple actions, such as switching your household lightbulbs to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (green.cbc.ca).
I'm not an environmental nut, but I feel strongly when it comes to doing these "little things" to help the environment because they are often so simple to take part in. This Website is fantastic because it is not only user friendly, but it brings awareness to people via the Internet, the most commonly observed medium in our society. Many people would take on these daily projects, such as changing their lightbulbs if they only knew that carrying out this action would actually make a difference for the environment. One Million Acts of Green educates us on what we should and should not do, as well as keeps tabs on how many people admitted to taking the advice that the Website provides. From that total, another total is provided with a count of how many greenhouse gases have been saved on a given day. The count of Green Acts currently stands at 380, 186, and the goal is, of course, one million.
To get involved with a project such as this one can be fulfilling because you feel that you are making a difference. We all know that there is so much wrong with this world, but by failing to positively contribute to it we are guilty too. One way or another we're here to make a difference, and I'm starting with the environment. Today when I started my car in the morning I made sure I left within a minute, as opposed to being distracted by which song my iPod should play first (and for me, that's quite the tough decision in the morning). Instead I left right away, put my iPod on shuffle and luckily "A Day in the Life", by The Beatles began playing. That's a true story, and who knows what lies in store for me tomorrow?
Put down the television remote, get off Facebook and go engage yourself with society, with YOUR society. We can't all change the world, but the least you could do is try.
Works Cited
"What is One Million Acts of Green?." CBC. One Million Acts of Green. 25 Nov 2008. . <http://green.cbc.ca/View.aspx?uid=About_WhatisOneMillionActsofGreen>
I'm not an environmental nut, but I feel strongly when it comes to doing these "little things" to help the environment because they are often so simple to take part in. This Website is fantastic because it is not only user friendly, but it brings awareness to people via the Internet, the most commonly observed medium in our society. Many people would take on these daily projects, such as changing their lightbulbs if they only knew that carrying out this action would actually make a difference for the environment. One Million Acts of Green educates us on what we should and should not do, as well as keeps tabs on how many people admitted to taking the advice that the Website provides. From that total, another total is provided with a count of how many greenhouse gases have been saved on a given day. The count of Green Acts currently stands at 380, 186, and the goal is, of course, one million.
To get involved with a project such as this one can be fulfilling because you feel that you are making a difference. We all know that there is so much wrong with this world, but by failing to positively contribute to it we are guilty too. One way or another we're here to make a difference, and I'm starting with the environment. Today when I started my car in the morning I made sure I left within a minute, as opposed to being distracted by which song my iPod should play first (and for me, that's quite the tough decision in the morning). Instead I left right away, put my iPod on shuffle and luckily "A Day in the Life", by The Beatles began playing. That's a true story, and who knows what lies in store for me tomorrow?
Put down the television remote, get off Facebook and go engage yourself with society, with YOUR society. We can't all change the world, but the least you could do is try.
Works Cited
"What is One Million Acts of Green?." CBC. One Million Acts of Green. 25 Nov 2008
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