Love our Earth through Recycling

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The Climate is Changing
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Lifestyle Changes Can Curb Climate Change

• Please eat less meat - meat is a very carbon
  intensive commodity. Cycling or walking instead
  of jumping in a car to go 500 meters. Purchase
  only what you really need instead of buying
  something just because its there.

Dr. Pachauri, Chairman of Nobel Peace
Prize-Winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)
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Tzu Chis 3 Green Acts

• Tzu Chi Foundation has devoted to its mission in
  environmental protection since 1990. Based on our
  experiences, combined with UN IPCCs latest
  advocacy, Master Cheng Yen encourages every one
  of us to join in the 3 Green Acts.

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Act 1 Mindful Eating

• Try vegetarianism our diet contributes to global
  warming more than our cars
• Buy low carbon food buy seasonal/local, not
  air-freighted, less packaged food
• Reduce food waste proper portion size, donate
  food, composting

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Why Vegetarianism?

• Did you know
• To produce ONE pound of beef takes
• 2500 gallons of water,
• 16 pounds of grains,
• 36 pounds of carbon dioxide-equivalent is
  produced.

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Try Vegetarianism

• American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5
  more tons of carbon dioxide per person than
  vegetarians a year. - Univ. of Chicago Study

• Raising animals for food generates more
  greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars,
  trucks, trains, ships, and planes in the world
  combined. UN Food and Agriculture Organization
  (FAO)

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Famous Vegetarian

• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Abraham Lincoln
• Mark Twain
• Albert Schweitzer
• Benjamin Franklin
• Albert Einstein
• you!

Nothing will benefit human health and increase
chances of survival for life on earth as much as
the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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Buy low carbon food

• A low carbon diet minimizes the emissions
  released from the production, packaging,
  processing, transport, preparation and waste of
  food.
• Major tenets of a low carbon diet include eating
  less meat and cheese, eating food grown locally
  and seasonally, eating less processed and
  packaged foods and reducing waste from food by
  proper portion size, recycling or composting.

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Reduce food waste

• Almost half of the food in the US goes to waste.
  Household food waste alone adds up to 43
  million, making it a serious economic problem.
  - University of Arizona Study
• It is estimated that Americans throw away 40
  million plastic water bottles every day, and
  bottled water is often shipped trans-continentally
  . - Wikipedia

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Act 2 Eco-Friendly Living

• Bike or take public transit walk short distance,
  bike to work, carpool more
• Conserve water and electricity pollute less, use
  energy-efficient appliances
• Reduce paper consumption print double-sided, use
  scrap paper for notes

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Did you know
Transportation sector directly accounted for
about 27 of total U.S. greenhouse gases
emissions. - US EPA About 30 of the worlds
land is in serious drought condition. - National
Center of Atmospheric Research    
If the US cut office paper use by just 10, it
would prevent the emission of 1.6 million tons of
greenhouse gases - the equivalent of taking
280,000 cars off the road. - Environmental
Paper Network  
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Act 3 Frugal Living

• Buy only what you need shop smart, frugal
  fashion is chic
• Extend product lifespan recycle, donate to and
  buy from thrift store
• Stop using disposable products use reusable
  utensil, bring your own bags

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Did you know

• About 46,000 pieces of plastic float on each
  square mile of sea. - The Telegraph, UK
•  A garbage patch of floating waste in the
  Pacific Ocean now covers an area twice the size
  of the continental U.S. - The Independent, UK
•  Only 2 of plastic bags were recycled in the
  US - American Chemical Council

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Recycling Facts

• Recycling 100 lb of papers save a 20-year-old
  tree
• Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to
  run a TV for 3 hours
• Recycling 1 glass bottle saves enough energy to
  light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours

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Tzu Chi Promotes Recycling _at_ Gift of Books
Award Schools
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Master Cheng Yens Teaching

• Protecting the environment is a responsibility
  that all of us share. I hope everyone
  can live with greater environmental awareness.
  It is a simple concept, but if we
  can all put it into practice, the impact can be
  profound and far-reaching.

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Take the 3 Green Acts Pledge
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You Can Help Change the World

• Pledge Today or Online _at_
• http//greenacts.us.tzuchi.org/