Everybody can do a little for our world! Donate a few bucks and join Greenpeace or the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). I don't have much money, but nevertheless I donate 5 Euro every month.
How does one say so beautifully?
Many mickles make a muckle!
Spend as much as you can and help to stop whaling or to stop the termination of ancient forests.
No money but a Computer with an internet connection? Become a Greenpeace Ocean Defender or sign up and get completely involved. You can also become a WWF Cyberactivist and send e-cards to tell friends about the work they can do with some words and mouthclicks or some money.
In several protest actions you can send already prefabricated letters via e-mail to politicians or industrial companies. The more people take part in, the more attention we will get.
You have an own Homepage? Place links (with banner) to Greenpeace etc. or create a web page like this one and get free Webspace if needed!
Visit the Greenpeace Homepage and start working.
Felix is cool, planting trees ist cool!
Visit Ric O'Barry's Website and sign the Petition to stop the Dolphin slaughter in the cove of Taijii!
Support the Madamfo Ghana association and help Bettina Landgrafe to fight against the child slavery in Ghana and help the villagers to help themselves!
Visit PETA today and sign petition to urge Canada to stop the cruel seal hunt!
Energy Safing Tips
Tips for the ecological and environment friendly use of TV sets, satellite receivers etc.:
Use timer switches (less than 10 €/$/£) to switch off your TV and satellite receiver automatically for the night and times when you're not at home!
Sadly, many manufacturers are producing modems, routers and more hardware without switches. Use multiple sockets with on/off switches for these kind of hardware and also for Computers, Printers etc., cause it's NOT necessary to have all this equipment turned on for 24 hours, 7 days a week! It's also easier to switch all hardware on and off and consider that it will be good for your wallet if you want save money.
Apropos printing: You want to print whole websites? Why??? You want to save some text to show it to your family in the evening? So, ask yourself what to do! You can save the whole web page to your USB flash card or pendrive. You can select the text you want to show to your family and paste it to a simple textfile and save it to your pendrive. If you don't want to start your Computer at home only for showing the text, then print only the selected text! You'll save ink and paper (Screenshot)! Reminder: Each sheet of paper has two sides for printing, do it!
Get Green Power in: Australia, Germany, United Kingdom and look forward to repower America. For other countries: Investigate your local electricity market to get green energy if available!
Green Webspace is also available! Greenest Host is located in San Diego, California and directly powered by 100% solar energy. Here is a List with reviewed green providers.
Attention! Look for REAL Green Energy and Green Webspace Providers! There are providers who calling themselves Green but bought only RECs (Renewable Energy Credits) or carbon credits. Read an article about chosing the right green webspace provider.
Energy saving lamps? Yes, they save power and that's good for our environment. But, what about the mercury within the lamps? Please, do NOT throw away these lamps into the household garbage! Find informations on how to recycle the lamps in the right way on LampRecycle.org (USA) and RecOlight.co.uk or contact your local garbage collecting service and your City Hall Office respectively.
You should also keep an eye on green products when buying new hardware!
1. Example: My Computers 550 Watt power supply (LC6550GP2 V2.2) is one of the Silent Giant Serie - Green Power Edition products from LC-Power and eats less power than traditional 550 Watt power supplies cause the two 12 Volt connectors working with a current rating of 16 and 18 Ampere respectively, not with 20, 30 or more than 40 Ampere.
Also a good choice for eco-friendly power supplies: be quiet!
2. Example: My 3.5-inch hard drives (HD502HI and HD103SI) are Eco Green products from Samsung, running with 5400 rpm instead of 7200 rpm. Seagate offers the Barracuda 5900 rpm HDD and other producers offer similar products. Windows XP, Linux Mint and other Linux systems are running very well on my PC with the HD502HI. Windows 7 and several Linux OS are running very well on Notebooks with 5400 rpm HDDS while Notebooks are mostly provided with 2.5-inch, 5400 rpm HDDs. Ok, you can measure a difference to 7200 rpm HDDs but i do not really notice a difference while working. Only SSDs saving more energy (compare, some are not very efficient), working much faster than 7200 rpm HDDs and are more shock resistant but still very expensive.
3. Example: My CPU (AMD Phenom II X4 905e) works with 65 Watt input power (TDP) instead of 95 or 125 Watt like conventional AMD processors. Intel provides also low Watt processors!
4. Example: My video card (ASUS EN9600GT/DI/1GD3) is lower-clocked, that saves energy!
A lot of (not all) modern graphics adapters are working with integrated power safe functions but be careful with some green products! I've seen some which need 550 Watt (Minimum) power supplies with a minimum of a current rating of 40 Ampere on the 12 Volt connectors. That's not really green!
Please click also on the banners (below) and help to stop the termination of our ancient forests and help to protect endangered animals. Thanx!
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