Save the world

Water everyday

2008-02-06T01:47:00.000-08:00

It is very easy, it is enough to take the practice and after one thinks of it more. For example, to turn off the tap during the three minutes when the teeth are washed can save a few tens of liters of water! When you savonez yourselves under your shower, cut off the water.

The tires on the road

2008-02-06T01:46:00.000-08:00

Under-inflated tires involve an overconsumption of approximately 3 % for a deficit of 0.3 bar. If you take the motorway, the pressure indicated by the manufacturer perhaps increased by 15%. With bicycle, you will have less efforts to make with well inflated tires.

Buy a car emitting little CO2

2008-02-06T01:45:00.002-08:00

The two wheels like certain scooters and the small urban cars post the best results in favour of the air: their consumption as their rejections are low. To know some more, consult the file of the ADEME which publishes every year comparative emissions of pollutants by vehicles, you will be able in particular to check the CO2 emissions of your vehicle.

Do not buy any more a large car or of 4x4

2008-02-06T01:45:00.001-08:00

The vehicles known as "cross-country" are most polluting with a surplus of consumption of 4 litres/100 km compared to the other vehicles. The 4x4 emit up to three times more CO2 than a small sparing car." And, to 50 km/h downtown, these machines with four driving wheels consume twice more fuel (diesel in 80 % of the cases) that traditional models. For as much, the market of the 4x4 continues to grow in spite of rather high prices. Indeed, the sales of 4X4 represent today 2,6 % of the automobile market in France against 1,1 % in 1994. We include/understand this effect of mode badly signs of an unreasoned and puerile snobbery in urban zone. Without forgetting the damage which these vehicles in the "wild" zones make more, in forest, on the country lanes under pretext of the recreation that that gets...

Launch in the covoiturage

2008-02-06T01:44:00.001-08:00

95% of the cars are only occupied by their condutor. Let us think there! Ask your colleagues, your friends, make circulate lists to centralize the needs. More passengers, they is less cars and thus less stoppers on the roads!

Wash your car in a station of washing

2008-02-06T01:43:00.000-08:00

To prefer the stations of washing which: - consume less water (from 50 to 60 L for a washing with high pressure against 150 L for a washing with the rollers and nearly 200 L by you even) - are equipped with evacuations adapted for the worn water polluted by the cleaning products, hydrocarbons and of the various residues which accumulated on the car. There are also some stations of washing which clean without water using products known as "biodegradable".

Avoid the full galleries

2008-02-06T01:42:00.002-08:00

As long as possible, to find other means to transport much businesses: they involve an overconsumption from 10% to 120 km/h and can be at the origin of accidents when the fasteners yield.

Take an economic water hunting

2008-02-06T01:42:00.001-08:00

Also called flushings to two tanks, they make it possible to reduce the volume of water used of approximately 15 liters per day for a hearth of two people. And if you do not have any, it is enough for you to place a water bottle full of sand in the tank to water hunting with your toilets, less water will be thus wasted. A traditional water hunting consumes between 6 and 12 water L, a double order 3 to 6 liters...

Check your taps

2008-02-06T01:41:00.002-08:00

A flow drop by drop can make spend more than 4 000 liters of water per annum. Thus make repair the taps and flushings which flee: of 10 liters per day for a tap with 500 liters per day in the case of a simple filament of water in the basin of the WC!

Prefer the shower with the bath

2008-02-06T01:41:00.001-08:00

The shower is more tonic and hygienic that the baths and consumes from 50 to 80 liters of water against 150 to 300 liters for a bath.

Equip your taps with reducers

2008-02-06T01:40:00.001-08:00

Mixing valves and aerators limit your water consumption significantly. Called mixing valve, aerator, saver or moussor, this device is placed easily on the outlet side of your taps. Its role is to decrease the water flow which runs by dispersing flow. That does not harm at all the everyday usage of water (shower, crockery...). by defect, the water of the distribution network is delivered with 3 bars, i.e. 17 l/mn, a traditional mixing valve can lower the flow to 12 l/mn while the certain top-of-the-range mechanical mixing valves save up to water 50%. For a hearth of 4 people, the aerators placed on the taps and the éco-scanner heads generate an annual economy of about 30 % is 6,5 m3 with a moussor and 29 m3 with a éco-scanner head.

Buy little packed products

2008-02-06T01:39:00.001-08:00

The products should nevertheless be privileged in bulk, in economic conditioning, in order to reduce the local packing, and products, in order to moderate the gas emissions for purpose of greenhouse related to transport. In addition, the products having undergone various transformations (puffed up cereals, rice précuit...) also generally represent additional transport and energy expenditure (passage by the sites of agroalimentary development): the closer the bought product is to the gross product, the more it is ecological and, often, nutritive; because the refined products often lose their qualities (like the white flours, which contain less fibres, minerals and proteins that the whole-wheat flours).

Buy products of season

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While providing you out of fruit and vegetables of season, you improve gustatory quality of your food which was not produced by artificially recreating their normal conditions of development. They thus undergo less external contributions aiming at ensuring their growth. In addition, they are less expensive and you will support necessarily the local products which did not undergo an often detrimental transport for the foodstuffs. Lastly, on a human level, to buy local products and of season makes it possible to privilege the short circuits which remunerate less intermediaries and more the producers. This table should help you with better knowing the products of season available in France (nonexhaustive list):
Spring: artichoke, sprinkles, cabbages, pea, cucumber, radish, salad (lettuce, endive), broad bean, cauliflower, mushroom, spinach, lemon, orange, rhubarb...
Summer: garlic, aubergine, onion, potato, French bean, melon, water melon, sweet pepper, salad, tomato, carrot, broccoli, zucchini, apricot, cherry, cutter, raspberry, blackberry, bilberry, fishing...
Autumn: broccoli, sweet chestnut, quince, pear, grape, apple, carrot, celery, shallot, mushroom, pumpkin, turnip, mushroom, spinach...
Winter: lawyer, celery, endive, corn salad, leek, Jerusalem artichoke, salad (cornea of Anjou, chews), Brussels sprout, radish, mushroom, spinach, leek, lawyer, clementine, kiwi, orange, pear, apple...

Avoid the wasting

2008-02-06T01:37:00.001-08:00

On average, 26% of our food finish with the dustbin, do not buy in large quantity if you are not really sûr(e) to be able to finish. The fruits and the vegetables, even in the refrigerator lose their vitamins quickly and fade (MEDD, 2004).

Eat less meats

2008-02-06T01:36:00.001-08:00

The production of only one kilo of meat requires 4 to 5 kg food (to nourish the cattle) which, on a world level, 38% of the surfaces cultivated out of cereals (A. NICOLAS, 2004) monopolize. We consume meat more and more whereas our daily ration exceeds already the recommendations of the World Health Organization. This overconsumption involves the maintenance and the development of important livestock which in particular takes their vital space on the forest (case in Amazonia).

Extinguish the useless lights or apparatuses

2008-02-06T01:35:00.001-08:00

At the office as on your premise, when you are not in a part, extinguish the light. Close your computer while leaving the evening or when you do not make use of it on your premise. Avoid the days before and use the multi-grip ones with switch so as to stop all the apparatuses easily.

Use the natural light preferably

2008-02-06T01:34:00.001-08:00

Before lighting the light at the office systematically, check that you cannot benefit from our sun by moving a piece of furniture, a plant or quite simply by opening the blinds. The natural light is much more pleasant and less tiring to work.

Reduce your paper consumption

2008-02-06T01:32:00.000-08:00

For that print on recto-back or use the economic mode of your printer for printed pages on a A4 format when that is possible. Do not throw paper without you put the question: can I use it out of paper of draft?