1. Responding to climate change
Participation in environmental community services

2. How should we respond to climate change?
There are a few things we can do to try and respond to climate change or to slow it down:
The three Rs – Reuse, reduce and recycle.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
REDUCE
REUSE
RECYCLE
Walk or ride a bike instead of driving
Use old water bottles – sterilize if necessary
Recycle plastic bottles and products
Use electricity efficient appliance or switch off when not in use
Use recyclable shopping bags instead of buying plastic bags at shops
Recycle paper, magazines or newspapers ( read articles online)
Turn off taps
Use re-usable lunch boxes
Recycle cardboard boxes
Buy less!
Write on both sides of paper
Recycle soda cans
Compost food to change into rich soil
Reuse materials to create something new or for crafts
Compost leaves or yard waste

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Never let water run while shaving, brushing teeth or doing dishes. Close all taps and make sure you are water wise.
Water can be saved in many ways- be creative. Give water that was used for cooking to plants for example. Only wash clothes or dishes when the washing machine / dishwasher is full to capacity.
Catch rainwater and redistribute to other areas in your house.
If you have a borehole use this water to water your garden and to fill your pool if you have to,
Displace water in toilet cisterns.

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Save electricity by turning off lights when they are not needed or when you leave a room.
Install solar water heaters ( geysers) or put a timer on your geyser at home to only warm water at certain times of the day.
Use gas for cooking to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce electricity consumption. (Show learners appliance electricity usage document)

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Use energy saving bulbs such as compact fluorescent and LED lights. They use far less energy than normal globes ( incandescent) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Fluorescent refers to gas discharge lamps or tubes that uses energy to produce short wave ultra violet light
Incandescent is the light bulb we all know, here light it produced through heating a wire at high temperatures using more electricity that fluorescent technology

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Plant indigenous trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the air and to produce oxygen we breath.
Walk or cycle, car pool, or use a bus rather than a private car. Emissions from cars are the fastest growing source of carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect.
Avoid building houses in areas where there may be risk for severe weather events like floods and storms.

7. Meatless Monday: who, what, where and why
Watch the below YouTube video on meatless Monday
Producing beef requires significantly more resources (e.g. land, fertilizer, and water) than other sources of meat.  As ruminant animals, cattle also produce methane that other sources (e.g. pigs and chickens) don't.
Eschel et al. 2014 estimated that producing beef requires 28 times more land, 6 times more fertilizer and 11 times more water than producing pork or chicken.  As a result, the study estimated that producing beef releases 4 times more greenhouse gases than a calorie-equivalent amount of pork, and 5 times as much as an equivalent amount of poultry.
Eating vegetables produces lower greenhouse gas emissions yet.  For example, potatoes, rice, and broccoli produce approximately 3–5 times lower emissions than an equivalent mass of poultry and pork (Environmental Working Group 2011).  The reason is simple – it's more efficient to grow a crop and eat it than to grow a crop, feed it to an animal as it builds up muscle mass, then eat the animal.
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