Pay attention to turn off the lights. Turn off the lights when people leave. Use efficient and energy-saving light bulbs. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that 400 million tons of carbon dioxide can be prevented from being released only by using energy-saving light bulbs instead of traditional ones. It is best not to switch the energy-saving lamps for a short time, because the energy-saving lamps consume the most electricity when switching. Don't leave what you can finish during the day to do at night. Wash clothes and do homework before dark. Going to bed early and getting up early is good for health, environmental protection and energy saving.
2. Low-carbon cooking
Try to save energy in the kitchen. When cooking oil is heated, it produces carcinogens, which leads to the indoor environment pollution by oil fume. Reduce cooking and cook more vegetables. Don't fill the rice cooker and kettle too full, otherwise the soup will overflow after boiling, which will not only waste energy, but also easily put out the stove fire and cause gas leakage. Adjust the combustion range of the flame so that it does not exceed the outer edge of the bottom of the pot to obtain the best heating effect. If the fire in the pot is small, the flames burning around the bottom of the pot will only be wasted.
Please?Save?Water
Taomi water is a good detergent, which can be kept for washing dishes or watering flowers. Pots and plates stained with oil are cleaned with used napkins first, which saves water and time, and can also use less detergent to reduce water pollution. When washing clothes, you can add a small amount of soap powder, because washing powder will reduce a lot of foam when it meets soap, which saves water and cleaning time. Wash your face and hands. Use a small washbasin to collect water, and then pour it into a vat for collection. Water for washing hands, bathing, washing clothes and vegetables and relatively clean dishwashing water can be collected to wash rags, floors and toilets.
4. Energy-saving use of household appliances
When buying washing machines, televisions or other electrical appliances, choose reliable low-consumption and energy-saving products. Cut off the power supply in time when the TV and computer are not in use, which not only saves electricity, but also prevents the hidden danger of fire caused by short circuit of sockets. Please turn off the power of the water dispenser when not in use. Keep the refrigerator frost-free
recycle
By recycling materials, the amount of new raw materials can be reduced, thus reducing carbon dioxide emissions. For example, the recycling of organic materials such as paper and cardboard can avoid methane released from landfills. According to statistics, recycling one ton of waste paper can produce 800 kilograms of recycled paper, which can reduce the felling of 17 trees, save more than half of papermaking raw materials and reduce water pollution. Therefore, saving paper means protecting forests and the environment.
6. Energy-saving fitness methods
If you live in a building with good ventilation and lighting conditions and complete safety facilities, you can do "stair climbing" every day, save electricity at the same time, and you can complete fitness, mental health and temperament improvement at one time. Hand washing light clothes is also good exercise. Standing in front of the laundry pool in a standing position not only exercises the strength of the feet, but also relaxes the waist and back that are often in a state of tension. Wash clothes with both hands at the same time, saving water and electricity while exercising the flexibility of fingers and the coordination ability of left and right brains.
7. Save energy for heating and cooling.
Most families consume energy for heating and cooling. As long as natural ventilation is effectively used to avoid room overheating, the cost and carbon dioxide emission can be simply reduced by 10%. Check the insulation quality of attic and hollow wall. Check whether the gaps between doors and windows are closed in winter. When the weather is not very hot in summer, it is best to use fans or electric fans instead of air conditioners. When using the air conditioner, don't turn the temperature too low.
8. Economy cars
Energy-efficient cars produce less carbon dioxide per kilometer. Generally speaking, the heavier a car is, the more fuel it consumes and the more carbon dioxide it produces. And it's economical
Compared with small-cylinder cars, large SUVs and luxury cars emit at least twice as much carbon dioxide as small-cylinder cars. Off-road vehicles have a high safety factor, but they consume a lot of fuel. The power transmission of automatic transmission cars is accomplished by hydraulic pressure, which will cause power loss when working, especially when driving at low speed or parking in traffic jam, and the fuel consumption is even greater.
9. Bring your own shopping bag or reuse plastic bags for shopping.
The raw materials of plastics mainly come from non-renewable mineral energy such as coal, oil and natural gas. Saving plastic bags means saving the earth's energy. There are more than one million tons of plastic waste in China every year, and "disposable" plastic bags not only cause huge waste of resources, but also increase the amount of waste.
10. Use less disposable products.
Shopping malls are full of disposable items: disposable tableware, disposable toothbrushes, disposable raincoats, disposable pens ... disposable items bring temporary convenience to people, but bring disasters to the ecological environment. They accelerate the depletion of the earth's resources, and produce a large amount of garbage that causes environmental pollution. Taking disposable chopsticks as an example, China exports about 6.5438+0.5 million cubic meters to Japan and South Korea every year, which consumes 2 million square meters of forest resources.
1 1. Use computers and printers reasonably.
When the computer is not in use, use standby instead of screen protection, each desktop can save electricity by 6.3 degrees per year, and correspondingly reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 6 kilograms; Each laptop can save electricity 1.5 kwh per year, and correspondingly reduce carbon dioxide emissions 1.4 kg. If this measure is adopted for 77 million computers in China, 450 million kWh of electricity can be saved and 430,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced every year.