Reducing Your EF By Muhammad Abukar

Reducing Your EF By Muhammad Abukar

1. Transportation

   • Carpool with friends
   • Walk or bike when there is the oppurtunity to rather than driving
     • Going to school
   • Takes less trips and vacations
     • On vacations, rather than taking a plane, take a train or bus
   • Avoid traffic and try not to drive in times of heavy traffic
   • Use public transit instead of driving in a car

2. Housing

   • Use more energy efficient light bulbs
     • CFL and LED
   • Turning electronics off completly instead of leaving them on standby where they would waste electricity
     • Computers, Setup-boxes, televisions
   • Choose more energy efficient cleaning options
     • Instead of using a clothes dryer, use drying racks to save energy
     • Making sure the washing machine is filled for every wash
     • Washing in cold water opposed to hot water
   • Take shorter showers and less baths
   • Reducing waste
     • Recycling and reusing more material
     • Start using a compost bin

3. Food Choices

   • Purchase more local and organics food
     • Buy food in season
   • When buying, choose food with less packaging
   • Cutting down on eating meat in our meals
   • Reduce food waste
     • Make sure to eat all foods before they spoil
     • Buy foods we will actually eat
   • Eat less processed food
   • Eat less fast food or food from restaurants
   • Buy less bottled water

4. Greening My Community: For my community I think that we need to create a variety of transportation choices in order for my community to become greener.

   • I think that creating a variety of transportation choices would benefit a community because it would decrease the amount of traffic, and decrease the amount of pollution, and toxins that the cars release during those jams. In Richmond Hill currently traffic isn't that much of a problem but it could become a huge problem in the future because there would a increase in population and many cars to go along the the amount of people. We need to consider this and start to carpool, or even use public transportation. so that this issue doesn't occur in the future.
     • As an example, Richmond Hill does not have as many roads so this issue may occur, unless we start to do something about then we wont have to worry about it. But ways to prevent this from happening are, Carpooling, Using public Transit/Transportation, Walk, or bike, and many more. By just doing these things we can prevent environmental harm and we can contribute to Greening Our Community.

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