LYK's Green Revolution

Ovaltine

Since Gregor Robertson is hyping us to be one of the greenest city by 2020, I would like to spark some awareness through going Green.

Things we can do:

Composting

Start a compost, not only yard trimming, get a compost bin through vancouver.ca. Throw all our organic garbage in there, banana peels, etc etc etc


Rain Barrels

Connect rain barrel to your storm drain.

Beekeeping

Cultivating bees in your garden can be fun, you can yield up to 200lbs of honey through a single honeybee hive.

Cycling

Gonna brag a bit, I am planning to buy a Valencia Trek bike to be my summer transportation.

Chicken Coop

Since Vancouver just allowed chicken raising, why not own a few chicken to off-set the costs of going to supermarket?


Okay, enough of my ideas and rambling, these are my plans for the next year, what are yours?

布小熊

Since I live in an apartment and don't really want to have warm composting, I will start collecting and bringing organic garbage to my parents' place for composting.
They have been doing that for years with good fertilizer for their garden.
I guess the next thing i can do is cycling/walking. And I will do that more.

Ovaltine

Since I live in an apartment and don't really want to have warm composting, I will start collecting  ...
布小熊 發表於 2010-7-15 09:39

To speed the process, you can by red worms from local pet store to bring the composting time down to 2-3 months.

Ovaltine

I am not suprised many chinese people are not interested in this thread, but as a Chinese in a foreign country, we are actually the future leaders of the world in terms of power and knowledge. We do not have the power in which government and other institution has, but i hope many chinese people in this little online community can influence others to do some environmental work. I was back in Asia last month, and it hurts me to see the degree of pollution affecting the lives of so many people. It is really time to change our lifestyle to be more sustainable. Being green is not some hippie **** anymore, it's about saving the world from destruction in your own hands.

peter236

I am not suprised many chinese people are not interested in this thread, but as a Chinese in a forei ...
Ovaltine 發表於 2010-8-4 13:36

In China, they are building solar power, wind power, highspeed railway, subway etc. These are all designed to reduce pollution and to reduce the reliance on cars.
Shame on Canadians and Americans who drive their cars way too much every day.

China is now the leader in green revolution. Why don't you read some of my threads on China's green revolution?

Ovaltine

回復 5# peter236


Yes, china is doing it's share in the green revolution. its true, there is no doubt about it.  But on this delicate subject, its not the question who is doing what, rather its how come we are not doing more. China has 1.5 billion people, neighboring India has 1 billion people. This global warming pollution problem is not going to go away after one night, economic growth and population growth will just add more salt to the wound.  The American and Canadian lifestyle is not sustainable at all, our footprint on earth is about 4 times the size of a normal Chinese peasant in China.  The problem with the Chinese culture is, we have this inferiority complex, our inferiority complex allows us to accumulate lots of wealth through hard work and labor. After wealth what happens? leave it for the next generation to waste it away of LV, fly cars and things of the materialistic nature. Evidence of that all around you today, all these Chinese businessmen bringing kids from overseas to gain knowledge. They be taking all these business administration, economic classes? What else do they learn other than doing good business and accumulating wealth?

The extravagant lifestyle of Euro, Canada and America.

This is the major problem!  We keep thinking their culture is better than ours. The endless partying, the entertainment and the high life. How long is this gonna last until every inch of the earth's resource is stripped away through our extravagance?

I was raised in Vancouver, came here since I was 7, back in the day, there was no need to wear t-shirts in the summer due to the cold, that was only 15 years ago. What do y'all think we happen to the next generation?

peter236

回復  peter236


Yes, china is doing it's share in the green revolution. its true, there is no doub ...
Ovaltine 發表於 2010-8-4 14:02

hahaha, that is why the Chinese should buy their own brand names Chinese hand bags and Chinese luxury cars, so that the money stays in China.

From what I can see in North America, there are many Chinese scholars and students doing research in the areas of biological sciences, medicine, various types of engineering etc, not only business administration.

vilium

Just wondering how raising chicken in the backyard can contribute to a greener environment?

布小熊

Just wondering how raising chicken in the backyard can contribute to a greener environment?
vilium 發表於 2010-8-10 10:26 AM

cos that's 0 mile food for the eggs. no carbon foot print to transport eggs from far away to supermarket then to you home.

Ovaltine

Green films:

What A Way to Go: Life at the end of an empire
A Crude Awakening

Green Dude:

http://www.ranprieur.com/ Ran Prieur is actually a homeless dude in Spokane, he has a 10-acre piece of land that he envision to transform in to sustainable enviroment.

Daniel Quinn, author of Ismael, must read book, will change your life. Basically he believes the agricultural revolution was a wrong way to go for human civilization.