Oh my god!

My roommates yesterday had a little party which i also attended. They played this game where people have to drink and flip their cups in order for the next in their team to drink until everyone has drank and flipped their cup and then the team wins. Three rounds were enough for me bu they kept going for the next three hours.

They consumed over 30 cans of beer. Do not ask me I still wonder where they put all that beer only six people. for me this is a big number. Today i decided to clean the mess we made yesterday at the kitchen and i saw the pyramid of cans on the kitchen table and i wondered. I went and talked about it with my roommates and they said they are going to bring the cans for recycling and receive a refund for the cans.

In my first post about recycling bottles and cans i did not realize the weight of my words. Since i came here i have observed most Americans consuming huge amounts of alcohol of all kinds. imagine all those amounts of cans and glass being able to be recycled. The people who bring those for recycling can actually take back a significant amount of their money when they give them back. Imagine in the Bills games for example!!!
Just think about these amounts!


NOTICE: the picture is not that good but this is the first pyramid they made. These are only half the cans they actually drank so you can think how many there were left to be consumed.

Picture of the week

A Picture from a forest. This is real Beauty.

Picture belong to Ashen-fox

Important Announcement

Today I received great news. The university will place recycling Totes all over the school's ground for recycling tin, plastic and glass. I really hope that the students will actually use them and understand their importance.
Not only will everyone be able to help the environment but also will make the school a healthier and cleaner environment.

I bet the squirrels will enjoy it too....!!!

Issues: Do I have enough money to spend for the environment?

Everyone is talking these days about the economic crisis around the world, that people do not have enough money to live and so on. Well, this is the world the human kind has created and i have to admit that some of us are really lucky to even have a job and make some money. In most big nations people live happy and have money to spare for an extra shirt or something that their heart desires. It all depends on how lucky you and how you use the opportunities that are given to you.

What does the whole matter have to do with my blogs theme? well it is simple. When doing some simple things like close the electrical devices that are not being use to conserve energy, do not throw paper away and so on, a family can actually save money even if it is not obvious. Lets get an example a simple one. A family starts to collect all the plastic and glass bottles in order to recycle them. If a glass bottle costs 15 cents to sell and the family spends one and a half glass bottles each week the income from recycling them then is 12 dollars roughly a year. This does not sound much but for poor families it can make a difference.

Other devices such as the rain barrel i mentioned in one of my previous posts can also cost cut from the families expenses. In order to buy it it might cost a lot and might cause a difficulty to a family for two months but think about it in a long term. This family will have water available to use taken from nature itself and will be able to save a lot of money from their water bill. The same can be with other devices such as home water recycling facilities which can make the water clean enough to be used again and again if needed. I know that because my family has the same problem and now we are glad to have that water recycling facility at our house and we can water our garden which porvides us with fruits and other vegetables.

Everyone is thinking is "oh, i don't have the money to buy this rain barrel so i wont take it" but what that someone should be thinking about is "I have some money to spend now and i might have future problems with paying the bill for the water". At that moment that someone will regret not having made the right choice.

So if your money aren't enough to spend and you still want to help the environment, don't think its impossible but try to think what is possible to happen in the near future with all the predictions about the economy and see for yourself.

Picture of the week

So, this week i decided to post something different. I want all of you to guess what the picture depicts and next week i will reveal what is it!

Picture belongs to Oetzy

P.S: I posted the owners site in order to show to whom it rightfully belongs to, so please do not check his profile just to give me the right answer. Thank you!

P.S: The picture is actually a mushroom as some comments were right.

Internet Menace!

Did you ever think of the internet as something harmful to the environment? I guess not. Internet by itself is not bad. but in the hands of students and offices it is a deadly weapon against the environment.

I say offices because in all kinds of offices (tour operators, financial offices,lawyer offices are some examples) print most of their conversations and information about their customers on paper. You can imagine how much paper is wasted and then thrown away since most offices do not think for the environment because someone will have to bring that paper to a recycle facility. and that costs. so its easier to just throw it away. Oh yes, if seen that. So do you wanna be like that i ask you.

What do you do with the power points slides that need reading for tomorrow? you print them. actually i do it too sometimes but i at least have my recycle bin at home and at the end of the semester i recycle them. so try to do something about it. either just store everything at your computer and read it from there or at least try to print as little as possible and only the things that you really need.

So next time you are going to print a page think if you really need it. Trees are dying to help you print! I hope you get the irony.

Picture belongs to Black42x