The Adventures of Katie Rotolo: Your five minutes a day can change the world!

Ok everyone, it's really simple! Start by logging off Facebook now go...! Everyday we spend so much wasted time online. I mean how many of you truthfully are guilty of looking at someone's status, end up going through their pictures, finding someone else interesting or you haven't talk to in a while then going to their page?..you get the drift. Think about how much time you WASTE on social networking sites. Yes, there are some great causes on Facebook and I'm in no way saying there aren't also valuable resources and contacts but can we just deal with 5 minutes less of it? Can we take 5 minutes out to research something important that is impacting us, our wildlife, our pets, our children, future children...? Let's bless forward. If once a week we signed a valuable petition or bought one less coffee to donate to help save the rain forest couldn't we change the world? We may not be able to storm the Oval Office to tell the boss how we really feel about every issue but we can do our part in making positive changes. People think their one voice, one vote won't make the difference but if we stop being so negative and ignorant and we all give our one vote that'd be amazing! Miracles could happen! The world's population is almost almost 7 billion people?! You're not the only one who is trying to convey a certain message. Spread knowledge, learn, research and most importantly give back and take care of this beautiful place we destroy everyday. Yes, we are all guilty of it by living the lives we do but by not being ignorant about things we can make small changes that can go a long way.

Click here and do a small favor to your earth, yourself and your peers. Some of these take under a minute and you don't have to put your full address ever when signing. Just a simple petition against something that's wrong and you just put something in the blank, others are e-mails. Take 5 to right an email on how you feel about the issue. Maybe nothing will come of it but maybe something great will. Besides what do you have to lose? One less picture comment?

http://www2.aspca.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=73165.0

http://www.change.org/petitions/more_petitions?change_id=2811&event_id=31703

Since about 1750 human activity has increased the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Measured atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are currently 100 ppmv higher than pre-industrial levels.^[22] Natural sources of carbon dioxide are more than 20 times greater than sources due to human activity,^[23] but over periods longer than a few years natural sources are closely balanced by natural sinks, mainly photosynthesis of carbon compounds by plants and marine plankton. As a result of this balance, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide remained between 260 and 280 parts per million for the 10,000 years between the end of the last glacial maximum and the start of the industrial era.^[24]

It is likely that anthropogenic warming, such as that due to elevated greenhouse gas levels, has had a discernible influence on many physical and biological systems. Warming is projected to affect various issues such as freshwater resources, industry, food and health.^[25]

The main sources of greenhouse gases due to human activity are:

burning of fossil fuels and deforestation leading to higher carbon dioxide concentrations. Land use change (mainly deforestation in the tropics) account for up to one third of total anthropogenic CO₂ emissions.^[24]
livestock enteric fermentation and manure management,^[26] paddy rice farming, land use and wetland changes, pipeline losses, and covered vented landfill emissions leading to higher methane atmospheric concentrations. Many of the newer style fully vented septic systems that enhance and target the fermentation process also are sources ofatmospheric methane.
use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigeration systems, and use of CFCs and halons in fire suppression systems and manufacturing processes.
agricultural activities, including the use of fertilizers, that lead to higher nitrous oxide (N₂O) concentrations.