Environmental Tips Video Series

Amid the swirl of forces endangering our environment, causing climate change and threatening certain species with extinction, there are things that each of us can do to make a difference.

"Environmental Tips" suggests some of them. The series looks at actions that we can take as individuals in a dozen different areas to help protect our planet.

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• Introduction to Environmental Tips - What You Can Do to Protect our Planet
• Tip 1 - CO2 Diet - Explains consequences of air pollution and offers ways we can reduce it.
• Tip 2 - Coffee - Growing coffee under the shade of tall trees instead of chopping down tropical forests will protect song birds. Drink only "shade grown coffee."
• Tip 3 - Fish - Over-fishing has depleted certain species of fish, endangering their survival. It recommends our eating only more abundant species.
• Tip 4 - Invasive Species - While nurturing song birds and endangered fish species, we can also erect defenses against so-called invasive species.

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• Tip 5 - Cotton - We need to be environmentally aware in selecting our clothes. When we wear cotton, make it organic cotton.
• Tip 6 - Water Quantity - Only about one percent of the earth's water is fresh water available for our use. Help protect this vital resource.
• Tip 7 - Water Quality - In considering water, quantity is important. So is quality. Avoid polluting our supply of it.
• Tip 8 - Trash - We can do better in our battle against a rising tide of trash. We can stop creating so much of it and recycle what we can.

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• Tip 9 - Trees - Traces the decimation of the world?s forests and explains how using ?certified? lumber will help perpetuate our forests.
• Tip 10 - Schools - Other environmental challenges come in unsuspecting and innocent places. We need to clear the polluted air in classrooms.
• Tip 11 - Plastic Bags - Grocery stores are environmental battle grounds where check-out clerks routinely ask: ?Paper or plastic?? Use fewer bags.
• Tip 12 - Cell Phones - They pose their own environmental challenges. Their toxic chemical content requires us to use care in disposing of old ones.
• Closing Comments - There are things that each of us can do as individuals to protect our planet.

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