Save the Planet Think Green Eco Climate Lights Off T-Shirt

Lights off, life on. A simple environmental message. It doesn't require people to give up big things to help make a difference. Granted big things make big differences, but so do millions of small things. You don't need to be an environmental activist or tree huggerto do your bit to save the planet. Just a little bit of think green could help with climate change. ### WANT TO KNOW MORE ? ### For example, if everyone switched off lights that they weren't using, it could have a big impact on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by power stations. Turning the lights off when you leave your room will also help save electricity and lower your utility bills. As a homeowner, turning the lights off when you’re not using them can help save money by not only reducing your electricity bills, but also extend the life of your light bulbs, and buy bulbs less often. Did you get that? It saves money, so even if you aren't fussed about the environment saving money has to be good. Turning off the lights when you leave your room can help save energy, but there is more. It can also help reduce carbon emission and other harmful greenhouse gases. Hence, turning off your lights is a simple way to help protect the environment and save the planet.Turning off your lights will also help reduce the use of non-renewable resources that are harmful to the environment. You can turn off the lights during the day especially if you don’t need them to help reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet. ### WANT TO KNOW MORE ? ### By turning off lights you could be saving lives. Turning off light switches and unplugging appliances could be all it takes to save almost 500 lives and prevent some 127,000 asthma cases annually, according to a recent study on what can be saved, besides money, with increased energy efficiency. Many of those health improvements are based on a projected 12% increase in summertime energy efficiency clustered around states like Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Those states had populations near power plants now using coal, the new research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, found. ### LIGHT POLLUTION ### Ever thought about it? Light pollution (eg lighting at night) affects many animals, since light and dark often signals when to eat, sleep, hunt, migrate, or reproduce. Artificial light at night disrupts nocturnal pollination. Bright urban lights can mask the moon’s phases, throwing the corals’,on coral reefs, biological clocks out of sync. Most songbirds migrate at night, light pollution disrupts their circadian rhythms and can disorient birds during migration. Bright lights at night on large buildings attract birds in the same way that bright porch lights attract moths, which can result in fatal collisions. OK so animals are confused, but even trees have problems. Trees evolved with regular day to night cycles so they can measure light with their own form of clock. This clock tells them how long the sun is out for, the season and distance from other trees measured by the shadows those trees cast. From this information, trees decide when to photosynthesize, when to send out leaves in spring, leaf coloring and when to shed leaves. Artificial light wreaks havoc with this system by extending the length of a day which changes flowering patterns and storing up energy to survive the winter. I could go on and on and on........but I won't I'll stop there. You can do your bit to spread the word with this t-shirt or any of the other items we have this design on in store. Just remember "Lights off, life on".