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The problem is so vast and the urgency so great that advice which suggests you turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or switch off lights and standbys when they are not needed or go vegetarian for one day a week seems, well, ridiculous. But it’s very use. We can do everything even the little thing, we must be able to do it for our lovely planet.Here is twenty ways How to stop global warming.

1. Do not leave appliances on standby
Use the "on/off" function on the machine itself. A TV set that's switched on for 3 hours a day (the average time Europeans spend watching TV) and in standby mode during the remaining 21 hours uses about 40% of its energy in standby mode.

2. Buy Recycled products

There has to be a market for products made with recycled goods. Support this movement by purchasing recycled goods. Recycled paper products include toilet paper (which is no longer scratchy, like it used to be), copy paper, paper towels, and tissues. Look for garbage bags and bin liners labeled "recycled plastic," and buy recycled toner cartridges for your fax machines and printers.

3. Rinse NO More

According to Consumer Reports, pre-rinsing dishes does not necessarily improve a dishwasher's ability to clean them. By skipping the wash before the wash, you can save up to 20 gallons of water per dishload. At one load a day, that's 7,300 gallons over the course of the year. Not to mention that you're saving time, dishwashing soap, and the energy used to heat the additional water.

4. Cover your pots while cooking
Doing so can save a lot of the energy needed for preparing the dish. Even better are pressure cookers and steamers: they can save around 70%!

5. Take a shower instead of a bath
A shower takes up to four times less energy than a bath. To maximize the energy saving, avoid power showers and use low-flow showerheads, which are cheap and provide the same comfort.

6. Re-gift Gift Wrap

Help cut down on the consumption of paper and plastic by re-using wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, and gift bags. These items should be good for at least one more wrapping. If you are feeling creative, use old calendars, pages from magazines, or even newspaper to wrap gifts.

7. Plant a tree
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

8. Switch to green power
In many areas, you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar.

9. Buy fresh foods instead of frozen
Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.

10. Reuse your shopping bag
When shopping, it saves energy and waste to use a reusable bag instead of accepting a disposable one in each shop.

11. Reduce waste
Most products we buy cause greenhouse gas emissions in one or another way, e.g. during production and distribution. By taking your lunch in a reusable lunch box instead of a disposable one, you save the energy needed to produce new lunch boxes.

12. Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water.

13. Use the washing machine or dishwasher only when they are full
If you need to use it when it is half full, then use the half-load or economy setting. There is also no need to set the temperatures high. Nowadays detergents are so efficient that they get your clothes and dishes clean at low temperatures.

14. Green Paint

Most paint is made from petrochemicals, and its manufacturing process can create 10 times its own weight in toxic waste.

15. Go vegetarian One day a week

To produce one pound of beef requires 2,500 gallons of water—that's 40 times more water than is used to produce a pound of potatoes.

16. Stop the water

By leaving the water running while you brush your teeth, you can waste 150 gallons of water per month.

17. Turn off your chargers

Most cell-phone chargers continue to draw electricity even when the phone isn't plugged into it. If your cell-phone charger averages five watts per hour and is plugged in all the time, that means a total of more than 40 kilowatt-hours every year, or about 93 pounds of CO2. The same problem applies to your other electronic equipment—your laptop, iPod, digital camera, and BlackBerry. Unplug all your chargers when they are not in use.

18. Turn off your computer when you leave at night

While computers do require a power surge when you first turn them on, they don't need enormous amounts of electricity to function for lengthy periods. Also, you can set your computer on "sleep" mode, which uses about three watts per hour, if you are going to be away from your desk for more than 15 minutes.

19. Recycle your newspaper

There are many million newspapers printed each day in the in Indonesia, about 50 percent, of these will be thrown away.

20. WALK OR BIKE

Always consider alternatives to driving, especially for journeys under two miles. It's better for the environment to walk, cycle, or even take the bus than to hop in your car.

would you like to do these?? I believe you can do it, a little thing but have a big changed, Why not?? LET'S DO IT...LET'S HAVE A BEAUTIFUL EARTH...