Good post. I am looking into these issues on my blog….

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THE WHITE ROOF PAPER
A single page of action you can adopt to combat global warming. Pass it on!
THE WHITE ROOF IDEA: Install white or light roofs. Replace or repaint dark roofs. Dark roofs absorb heat. White roofs reflect heat off the planet. Paint things white.
THE THICK WALL IDEA: Build homes with thick walls able to withstand heat, cold & high wind.
THE WHITE ROAD IDEA: Change to white or light-colored materials for all paving. Asphalt pollutes. Dark roads act like hot wires in car windows that melt ice—heating the planet.
BURY UTILITY LINES: Have your city bury utility lines, reducing outages from storms, live wire hazards & animal deaths, saving tree trimming & tree cutting costs & utility poles made of wood.
THE CISTERN IDEA: Have your city dig covered cisterns to gather runoff water to provide drought insurance & water for public & private gardens, trees, game fields &parks.
THE RAIN BARREL IDEA: Provide cheap, covered rain barrels for homes, apartments & buildings to collect rainwater for lawns, gardens, ponds, fountains, & pools.
THE PAPER PRINTING IDEA: Use both sides of the paper for printing whenever possible.
THE COLORED SACK IDEA: Use color-coded/marked sacks to recycle, world-wide. Glass, Plastic, or Metal = Black (marked “G,” “P” or “M.” ). Other Sacks: White = paper, Green = organic, lawn & general garbage. Red = dangerous materials (batteries, poisons, chemicals, etc.).
THE DOUBLE-WINDOW IDEA: Have your city require double-paned windows & efficient insulation in new construction, & make cheap insulation kits available for older buildings.
THE SAVE-WATER TOILET IDEA: Install 2-button toilets (uses less water for liquid waste).
THE CO2 ABSORPTION IDEA: Make your city require all new construction & paving to set aside an equal area (on-site or close by) for trees and/or install giant CO2 absorption towers.
ROOFTOPS: ALL urban buildings must cover 50% of rooftops with solar panels or live plants.
THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT IDEA: Carry a list of clean, green companies & buy from them.
THE SHOP & WALK IDEA: Have your city create free parking centers with handicap-friendly bike/walk shopping zones, & bicycle lanes on roads & highways. See #20, below, for surface ideas.
THE SMOKY EMISSIONS IDEA: Smoky emissions from trucks & cars will get ticketed.
THE AIR CONDITIONER IDEA: All commercial buildings to re-route heat from air conditioners into hot water heating systems & electric generators. ALSO: (1) 25% of side-or-roof surface areas of new construction to have solar panels. (2) Develop geothermal energy. (3) Use pipes under drives & pavement to heat water. (4) Duct heat from clothes dryers & refrigerators into water heaters. (5) Lay brick instead of pavement over utility lines buried under/across roads, thus easy to find & repair, reducing road repair time/repaving/traffic delays. (6) Ban products raised on destroyed rainforest acreage. (7) Ban meat from mass feedlots. (8) Buy “free-roam” eggs & poultry. (9) Eat no big fish, incl. whale, shark & dolphin. (11) Create nature preserves in your area. (12) Protect natural predators for wildlife health & control. (13) Ban all wild animal products. (14) Buy organic foods. (15) Plant varieties of trees. (16) Teach ecology & conservation in schools. (17) Ban coal electric plants. (18) Use big signs showing O2, CO2 & CO levels in traffic areas. (19) Recycle chopped plastic & tire bits into low-impact pavements for sidewalks, bike trails, roads. (20) To develop: catch lightning & create giant batteries from wet phosphate pits, etc.). For fun: use the ampersand (“&”) in informal printing to save paper. ? PASS IT ON! For more ideas, contact JVB at voice4vindication@yahoo.com