Conservation
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Introduction | Threats | Solutions | What can You do?

1. Do you know that 45% of metropolitan waste is paper?
> Choose for recycled paper.
> Separate your garbage.
> Avoid printing redundant information, just save it electronically.
> Check Earth 911 for recycling tips about specific products.

2. Did you know that recycling provides 6 times more jobs than landfilling and incinerating?

3. Do you know that around 80% of tropical wood arriving in Europe is illegally or destructively logged?
> Choose for FSC labelled wood/furniture or antique furniture.
> Conserve your wooden furniture.
> Select dead wood as your fire wood.
> Avoid the purchase of furniture made of hard-woods.

4. Do you know that after the "sustainable" collection of 30% of a tropical forest's wood, only 10% of the forest remains pristine?

5. Do you know that palm-oil plantations are the biggest threat to the most dense orangutan populations in the world in Sumatran West-coast?
> Check the ingredients of your products (cookies, chocolate, soap, shampoo, etc) and reduce your palm-oil consumption (and improve your health).
> Choose for local and biological/organic products.

6. Did you know that a study in 1986 by Harvard University scientists showed that air pollution inside households is 2 to 5 times worse than outdoors?
> Choose environmental friendly cleaning products in your house and avoid using hazardous products.
> Use vinegar, baking soda and natural soap.
> Beautify your house with plants to refresh and clean the air.
> Check Greenpeace List of Chemicals of Very High Concern for your health which are currently used in standard cleaning products.

7. Do you know that ONE already makes a difference?

For more information about your contribution to Indonesia and worldwide see:

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Global Warming @ NGS
Forests Now Declaration
Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance

8. Recommended literature:
> Diaper Free, 2001, by Ingrid Bauer
> Green Clean, 2005, by Linda Mason Hunter and Mikki Halpin
> The World without Us, 2007, by Alan Weisman
> In Defense of Food, 2008, by Michael Pollan
> Green, Inc., 2008, by Christine Catherine MacDonald
> Eco Barons, 2009, by Edward Humes