環保從何做起？

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资料来源： http://www.greenchoice.cn/

每个人的购物行为都会对环境产生直接的影响。比如，使用一次性塑料袋而不是可重复使用的布袋，其实是在间接鼓励那些破坏环境的生产企业，同时也造成生产原材料的过度使用和浪费。购物消费是每个人生活的必需，人人有自由选择的权利，而绿色消费，在满足我们需要的同时又保护环境，我们何乐而不为呢？下面的提示可以帮助您在购买行为中避免或减少对环境的破坏性影响，避免或减少对动物的伤害，同时也作出更有利于自己身体健康的选择.

绿色购物提示

- 选购包装简单的商品。

- 购买使用寿命更长的高品质产品。购物时随身携带可重复使用的购物袋，避免使用一次性塑料袋。

- 使用非一次性产品来代替一次性的纸制品或塑料制品. 无论家里还是在办公室, 无论是举办宴会或是别的活动，不要使用一次性的杯子，餐具，桌布及餐巾等，可以避免浪费珍贵的自然资源。

- 我们还应避免使用其他的一次性产品 如一次性的剃须刀，铅笔及打火机等，可再生产品和可配填充装的产品是不错的选择。入住酒店，最好携带自用日用品，使用饭店提供的一次性产品可得小心！

- 日用必需品(洗涤剂、食用油、米、面等)的采购，尽量选择最大包装。 如方便，采购这些物品时携带自用容器，以减少塑料袋/包装物的使用。

- 选用充电电池和使用寿命长的灯泡。

- 根据需要购买食物 避免因浪费食物而带来的对垃圾填埋或城市排水系统的压力。

- 购买瓶装水时舍小取大 - 大瓶装水的生产过程对资源的浪费相对较小。

- 避免购买对环境和动物福利产生严重不利影响的产品。

- 购买有机食品不仅有利环境，更有利自身健康。

- 尽量购买当地生产产品支持当地生产商而不是大型超市。

- 当地产品不能满足需要时，选择购买公平贸易产品 。

[yuyawei]

今天帶了兩個包包去 Carrfour 購物；但還是用了一大堆的塑料袋，原因是 ：

1. 我買了三包已經包裝好的麵包，那包裝紙自然是塑料袋！
2. 我也買了一些菜和水果，那些菜和水果都須要各別用不同的塑料袋包起來，然後拿給購物中心的員工稱和票價。（霸級市場都是這樣做生意的！）

結果算一算，我還是用了九個塑料袋！如果沒有帶兩個包包去，應該會多用了好幾個塑料袋！

我在想着，要如何避免使用那九個塑料袋呢？

有什麼提議嗎？

这个问题，我自己找到方法解决了。方法就是不要去霸级市场购物！

其实我现在住的环境里有一间迷你市场，在这迷你市场购物就可以避免那九个塑料袋了；因为跟零售员熟悉，所以敢敢大大声跟他说 ：'No！No！No! No plastic bag!'

在家乡（Bagan Serai），那里有的是微型杂货店；买米、买糖、买饼干时（还有其他的），店老板都是从大大米袋、糖袋跟大大的饼干桶，把我们要的东西拿出来装在塑料袋，然后称一称卖给我们。因此，我想，去杂货店购物时可以带自己的饼干罐啦、糖罐子啦、米袋啦，那么我们连包装用的塑料袋都省下了！

现在，很多霸级市场在大城市如雨後春笋冒起来，其实对很多杂货店带来负面影响。很多消费者都喜欢到这些霸级市场购物，就连我们家乡的安哥安娣在过年过节时，都会驱车北上巴里文打、槟城购物，这怎不叫当地的杂货店经营者叫苦连天呢？

如果家附近有杂货店，应该多支持他们。功德无量！功德无量！

[yuyawei]

对于全球暖化，我们有多担忧？
根据 TIME 在去年四月的特备报导，全球暖化不是未来的事，而是当今的问题！！

Climate change isn't some vague future problem-it's already damaging the planet at an alarming pace.

[yuyawei]

Amphibians have been hopping, swimming and crawling about the planet for 350 million years. But their future is hardly assured. A global assessment of the state of this entire class of vertebrates found that nearly one-third of the 5,743 known species are in serious trouble. Climate change may well be the culprite in most cases,either directly or indirectly. …
Climate change seems to be making frogs more vulnerable to infection by the fungus.
What troubles scientists especially is that if we are only in the early stages of warming, all these lost and endangered animals might be just the first of many to go. One study estimates that more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by the year 2050.

资料来源： TIME § NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 杂志

[yuyawei]

小时候，马来西亚的天气都没现在这个年头热!

是否有察觉到蟾蜍、蜻蜓、蝴蝶已经少了？

小时候，常看到蟾蜍跳进屋里来，现在在屋外要看到一只也难！

蜻蜓、蝴蝶更不用说了。今年过年回乡，一只都没看到！！

唉，这些小动物是不是真的要离我们而去了？

如果蛙蛙离去了，整个 ecosystem 就会失调；到时侯，黑斑蚊會不會更猖獗？骨痛热症会不会更氾濫呢？

[yuyawei]

听说以上的大马奇景也快要濒临消失了，是吗？

来自瓜拉雪兰娥的朋友，是否真有其事？

[yuyawei]

听说以上的大马奇景也快要濒临消失了，是吗？

来自瓜拉雪兰娥的朋友，是否真有其事？

[碧蕊]

听说以上的大马奇景也快要濒临消失了，是吗？

来自瓜拉雪兰娥的朋友，是否真有其事？

乖乖，我来回帖了。
确实如此，萤火虫居住的环境受到破坏，附近建了个水坝为主因。

两个月前，香港的梁文道来马时也来瓜雪，结果却失望了，
因为现在的萤火虫没有以前多。

您八月多会回国吧？
如想看可以来找我，
七月与八月是萤火虫交配的季节，
萤火虫也会比其他月份来的多。

[珊]

是否有察觉到蟾蜍、蜻蜓、蝴蝶已经少了？

小时候，常看到蟾蜍跳进屋里来，现在在屋外要看到一只也难！

蜻蜓、蝴蝶更不用说了。今年过年回乡，一只都没看到！！

唉，这些小动物是不是真的要离我们而去了？

如果蛙蛙离去了，整个 ecosystem 就会失调；到时侯，黑斑蚊會不會更猖獗？骨痛热症会不会更氾濫

我家到处都是蟾蜍哦！！小狗还常常捉来玩，把我吓死！！！

[yuyawei]

确实如此，萤火虫居住的环境受到破坏，附近建了个水坝为主因。

两个月前，香港的梁文道来马时也来瓜雪，结果却失望了，
因为现在的萤火虫没有以前多。

您八月多会回国吧？
如想看可以来找我，
七月与八月是萤火虫交配的季节，
萤火虫也会比其他月份来的多。

誰是梁文道？
嗯，這個八月非到瓜拉雪籣娥不可了！
到時侯我們可不可以一塊到學林？
（不要談這些了，我沒有灌水許可證！ ）

我家到处都是蟾蜍哦！！小狗还常常捉来玩，把我吓死！！！

這個還算是好消息！！

在阿拉伯沒有聽到呱呱聲的機會，就連虫鳴也少得可憐！在這裡很懷念以前總是覺得吵死人的聲音！
如果人類繼續破壞大自然，這些聲音很快就會消聲匿跡了！到時候才懷念“呱呱呱”為時已晚！！

資料來源 ：The Guardian UK News
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story ... e_continue

Alok Jha, science correspondent
Friday October 15, 2004
The Guardian

A third of the world's amphibian species are in danger of extinction, according to the first ever global survey of the animals. Scientists think that the mysterious collapse in numbers might be a warning that our environment may be in a worse state than we think - amphibians are known to be the most sensitive of all animals to subtle changes in their ecosystems.

There is also a new spectre that has come to haunt the frogs, toads, salamanders and newts that live in and out of water - a fungus that has already destroyed entire populations in many parts of the world and could spread to Britain.

Scientists have known since the 1980s that the many of the world's amphibian species are vanishing but the scale of decline revealed by the new survey, published today in Science, has stunned them. Nobody knows what is causing the devastation but it is likely to be loss of habitat to pollution, climate change and increasing competition with humans.

More than 500 scientists from more than 60 countries took part in the three-year Global Amphibian Assessment, a study of the world's 5,743 known amphibian species. One in three - a total of 1,856 species altogether - are threatened with extinction, they say. The latest count shows 122 amphibian species have become extinct in the past 20 years.

At the global level, scientists say that the drop in amphibian numbers could be an indicator of the poor state of our environment. "Amphibians feel the effects of water pollution, climate change before other forms of life including mankind," said Neil Cox, a programme officer with the joint World Conservation Union and Conservation International biodiversity assessment unit, which coordinated the survey. "They are the best indicators overall of environmental health largely because their porous skins allow for water transpiration and movement of chemicals."

But damage to the environmental is not the whole story. Many species have disappeared from pristine habitats that have suffered little environmental damage. "This is thought to be a response partly to outbreak of the disease chytridiomycosis," said Mr Cox.

The disease is caused by a fungus of the chytrid family called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and it infests the skin of adult amphibians and the mouth-parts of their larvae. "Amphibians drink through their skin and they also breathe through their skin, so anything that happens to their skin really screws them up," said Dr Matthew Fisher, a molecular epidemiologist at Imperial College London. "Tadpoles carry it but they're absolutely healthy. It's when they metamorph into little froglets that they die instantly - as soon as they hop out of the pond."

There is no practical treatment for the disease, which is concentrated mainly in Australia, North and Central America and the Caribbean, and it is spreading. The fungus has been implicated in the extinction of the Kihansi spray toad from Tanzania and, in Europe, it has been found infesting the common midwife toad.

There have been no confirmed cases of the disease in Britain, but it could be just a matter of time.