Five New Environmentally Friendly Home Innovations
There are many catalogs out now that allows you to shop for products that offer you an easy way to live in a more environmentally friendly matter. With the threat of global climate change becoming more prescient each year, it has become clear that even those of us who would not describe themselves as environmentalists will have to make some adjustments in the coming years as global warming becomes an even more urgent cause. Thankfully, there are scores of cool new products and innovations that can help the transition that much more easy for you and your family. Here are five environmentally friendly home innovations that will keep you content and green. 1. Solar Lights. Solar lights are the latest things to use in landscaping your yard. Not only are they lovely to look at, they are very environmentally friendly. Solar lights can be staked to the ground wherever you wish to place them in or around your property. They contain strong solar panels that absorb the light's warm energy all day and then radiate it back at night in a smooth, soothing glow of light. There are many different models to choose from. 2. Backyard Composters. The new backyard composters make it easier than every to recycle your yard waste and kitchen scarps. Simply put all of your waste as indicated into the large spinner and turn to aerate the soil. Keep the compost slightly wet and spins the waste often for the best and fastest results. 3. Composting toilets. If you are really into keeping the earth waste-free, you may be interested in the new composting toilets that are geared toward the environmentally friendly crowd. These fine toilets work just like regular toilets, except that they compost much of your waste. 4. Solar Flashlight and Radio. Every household needs a good radio and flashlight. Why not get both in a cozy package that is not only convenient, but also very environmentally friendly? The solar flashlight and radio package allows you to charge the device simply by letting it sit in the sun. You can also turn the crank whenever you need an extra dose of power. 5. Rain Harvesting Barrels. Indigenous people in many parts of the world, especially the dry places, have long done rain harvesting. Rain harvesting barrels work no matter where you live. They are a great way to be much less wasteful of one of the earth's most important natural resources--the rain. This is especially important in desert areas that do not receive much rainfall each year. With an ongoing drought, it makes sense to conserve and safe water whenever possible. These are just five of many of the fine products that are currently available for those among us who want to live a more reasonable and environmentally friendly lifestyle. It is now easier than ever to make a positive impact on this world. This happens when you live greener each day, taking each green day one by one. Simply making one small change each week can help make a big difference in the world. **** Dividing Environmental Colors - Light vs. Dark Green Environmentalists all the world over have argued about campaign strategies which involve the degree as to which they should take side with the government or private firms. Often, there is an inability of environmentalists to agree on issues. Strategies are available to environmentalist and ideology plays a large part in choice of strategy. A general way of explaining the differences within the environmental movement is as an uninterrupted spectrum from light to dark green. This spectrum, at times, is broken, due to incompatible goals within the environment movement. The spectrum from light green to dark green is explained as follows: Light green environmentalists have environmental strategies available which range from activism to negotiation. Groups who want a good ongoing working relationship with policy makers to smooth the progress of negotiation; activism becomes less of an option because it can cause confrontation, which can hamper the mutual trust needed for the relationship to work. Likewise, the power of groups who negotiate with governments count on their capability to sway voters and this requires respectability and restraint which many types of activism ruin. Light green environmental groups prefer non-violent actions, however, even activists in lightest green spectrum are considered as being provoking and show a lack of trust towards society's decision-makers. Dark green environmentalists are more willing to be confrontational towards corporate and political power, unwilling to avoid activism in order to advance the relations necessary for negotiation. They are usually ideologically against negotiation and the compromises that it involves. Successful negotiations are difficult due to the lack of shared goals and theories between them and the policy-makers. Environmental organizations use protest actions such as demonstrations, blockades, pickets, protest marches and meetings are the traditional method for groups of people to get their message across to the wider public. It is used as technique for getting people involved in a meaningful way to challenge unfair policy, a heartfelt commitment felt by a group about an important issue, and a way to get publicity to put pressure on government officials. The environmental group, Greenpeace, uses symbolic actions such as pipe blocking to garner publicity. They raise public awareness about issues by concentrating on the worst, and have been successful at raising funds rather than changing behaviors. Greenpeace is considered as becoming increasingly a lighter shade of green but with dark green roots. The dark greens make deals that raise fundamental ethical questions. They feel that the environment is a resource and those who subscribe to it believe it is acceptable to compromise it in order to save the most valuable areas, thus the dark greens often agree to trade-offs that can lead to some environmental sacrifices. The capability to make deals and accept trade-offs, and to tone down on the confrontation, allows entry into the decision-making process. For others the road to power is through an involvement with the government. Positive activism is intended to create a sense of necessity and crisis so that people will scream out for immediate change. However, negotiation can work against this by diffusing that sense of crisis and giving the feeling that there is no need to worry since environmentalists are leading government in the right direction. This can create an inaccurate sense of confidence given the lack of power of negotiating environmentalists. Of course any one environmental group will have different types of people as members and it is not so easy to characterize large groups as light or dark green. It is argued that there is room in any social movement for both reformers and the more radical, thus the environmental movement is able to have room for both the light and the dark green. But, conflicts arise from the differing perspectives and ideologies, and also from effects of differing strategies. |
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