Simple Things We All Can Do To Help Stop Global Warming (Barbra's dishwashing and refrigerator tips)

www.barbrastreisand.com ^ | Posted October 18, 2006 | Barbra Streisand

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Posted October 18, 2006 ...Barbra Streisand Simple Things We All Can Do To Help Stop Global Warming

Below is a link to a great article from The NY Times titled “Beyond Fossil Fuels” by Robert B. Semple Jr. The piece acknowledges that while stopping global warming is an overwhelming and daunting task, everyone has the power to make a difference by making simple, conscious decisions in their every day lives. The Streisand Foundation supports the non-profit group Earth Day Network, and they have compiled a list of a few easy ways you can conserve energy and help protect the environment from further deterioration:

1) Change old, incandescent lights to newer energy-saving models (compact fluorescent lights), turn off lights when not in use and dim lights when in use. 2) Update your heating/cooling system to a more efficient model 3) Tune up old heating/cooling systems, clean out the vents, buy a programmable thermostat 4) Make sure windows are sealed and doors are closed when running air conditioners and heaters 5) Turn on the energy saver switch near your refrigerator’s thermostat 6) Make sure that your refrigerator door seals properly 7) Clean out the condenser coil on your refrigerator (can improve the efficiency of your refrigerator by one third) 8) Wait until you have a full load before running your dishwasher 9) Invest in green stocks and renewable energy companies through socially responsible funds 10) Eat locally grown food and fruits and vegetables that are in season (if the food doesn't have to travel far, there's less carbon dioxide from the trucks that ship it) 11) Eat organic (the pesticides used on crops releases carbon contained in soil into the atmosphere) 12) Buy recycled

"Beyond Fossil Fuel" by Robert B. Semple Jr., The New York Times http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/opinion/11talkingpoints.html?ex=1161230400&en=8f38f5ab39804078&ei=5121&emc=eta1

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Barbra Streisand gives tips to the plebians on changing lightbulbs, doing dishes, fixing your air conditioner, sealing windows and other handy tips.

[50sDad]

Barbra Streisand gives tips to the plebians on changing lightbulbs, doing dishes, fixing your air conditioner, sealing windows and other handy tips.

You mis-spelled lesbians.

[trisham]

Poor Babs. She's so irrelevant that she's stooping to educating the unwashed masses in household chores in a futile bid for attention.

[trisham]

LOL! You're bad.

[Perdogg]

How about stop buying music cds since cds are made from Benzine.

[Wage Slave]

I tried to view the photos of Babs demonstrating how to live properly, but my computer must be on the blink.

[trisham]

Speaking of which:

[ccmay]

How about this tip, Babs: "Don't buy 14,000 sq. foot Malibu mansions with thirty rooms and six air conditioners."

-ccm

[Right Cal Gal]

Until Babs shows up at the Oscars in a Hybrid and flies commercial, she can kiss my rosy Irish bum.

[Mo1]

So does this mean we will be seeing Solor Panels & Wind Mill installed on Babs property soon?

Yea .. I didn't think so

[Gay State Conservative]

Well,Babs,*you* could help by permanently grounding your Gulfstream 5 and crushing your fleet of 5 ton Mercedes stretch limos.

[Piquaboy]

Ole hose nose does all that kind of stuff herself, docha know?

[Right Cal Gal]

Don't you mean "speaking of WITCH?"

[FastCoyote]

Babs energy efficient home

[randog]

6) Make sure that your refrigerator door seals properly

I think Babs originally wrote that suggestion as: "6) Make sure that all your refrigerator doors seal properly"

[Sgt_Schultze]

Ms. Streisand could move to smaller digs and the NYTimes could cease publishing. Paper manufacturing is one of the highest polluting industries.

The Slimes' reliance on paper causes pollution.

[trisham]

I stand corrected. :)

[Alouette]

It's on the edge of a cliff! How many more years before coastal erosion topples in into the ocean?

[FastCoyote]

"Ole hose nose does all that kind of stuff herself, docha know?"

Wonder when was the last time she
'Clean(ed) out the condenser coil on your refrigerator (can improve the efficiency of your refrigerator by one third)'

[claptrap]

The best thing about Babs is we dont have to listen to her.

[steve8714]

..too many..

[basil]

I haven't yet gotten so bored with life that I would spend any part of it going to Streisand's web site.

[CountryBumpkin]

[Algore]Build a giant space shade between Earth and the Sun.[/Algore]

[GregB]

Well said fellow irishman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OpusatFR]

How about we confiscate Ms. Bab's excess worldly goods and distribute them to the needy along with her excess cash.

In that way, no further energy expenditure to produce the goods necessary for the poor's survival will be necessary. Bab's uses way too much energy in a living spaces that are too large and require too much precious energy. She needs at least four migrant families to fill up that space. Land isn't being made anymore, Babs, and you have more than you are entitled to inhabit.

Live green, Babs. I can show you how.

Opus
(The conservative permaculturalist)

[Brad from Tennessee]

13) Attempt to reduce personal and entourage cocaine use due to the carbon factors associated with aircraft fuel expended in the atmosphere to transport the product from Bogota to Hollywood.

[bondjamesbond]

Most of us little people save energy to save money. It is only the super-rich class that has to pretend that by saving energy they are saving the World.

Oh, and BTW, they don't worry too much about saving energy, anyway.

[babble-on]

install bi-directional windmills on her nostrils, connect to power grid.

[FastCoyote]

"I haven't yet gotten so bored with life that I would spend any part of it going to Streisand's web site."

I was researching for a novel I'm writing, you just can't make up stuff like Babs! The scene: my hero has to meet the president (Clint Williams) at a fundraiser. All hell breaks loose :)

[bradthebuilder]

Suggestions one through eight are good sense energy saving tips. I had not thought to clean the condenser on my fridge. I'll do that tonight. However, as a warning, we should remember not to dim the fluorescent bulbs.

[Lee'sGhost]

Here's an idea. Quit wasting energy making crappy movies and concerts.

[bondjamesbond]

The caustic soda used in the primary refining operation for Cocaine is an ecological disaster, not to mention the destruction of wild space for cultivation. If the Hollywood super-rich really wanted to save the rain forest, they would cut down on their Cocaine consumption.

[Last Laugh]

Even babbles DOG looks unhappy. Poor thing.

[Fairview]

Here are some more cool suggestions on ways you too can help our environment and fight global warming:
13. Park your private jet, leave the helicopter in the hangar, and fly on scheduled airlines!
14. Tell your entourage to ride in hybrids!
15. Sell your mansion and buy a house with only the square footage you actually need. Instead of air-conditioning, open the windows to the breezes in the summer and take lots of showers to stay fragrant!
16. Send your staff of gardeners back to Mexico, store that polluting mower, and buy some environmentally-friendly sheep to keep your acreage looking neat!

[Brad from Tennessee]

This airhead, like the rest of the sheep in Hollywood, never had an original idea in her life. Link below is for Al Gordo's website which lists the exact same "tips" Barbara offers:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/

[Brad from Tennessee]

Not to mention the toxic affects of hydrochloric acid, acetone and ether.

[kromike]

Even babbles DOG looks unhappy. Poor thing.

Nice jab on Rosie. Or did you mean the other dog?

[agere_contra]

Babs, how will mending my fridge -

a) alter volcano activity?
b) alter the Milankovitch cycle?
c) change the cyclical heat output of the sun?

[reagan_fanatic]

I think Babs could do her part to stop visual pollution...

[massgopguy]

I'm sorry, did Babs say something? I was busy spraying component freeze into a styrofoam cup.

[thinking]

Dear Barbara,

I learned a few things in the military, and on the job: if you are going lead, then you have to stand in the front of the troops, and utter the words; follow me...hence I suggest, that you have an open house, and show the proletarian, how energy frugal you are, demonstrate, your new solar panels, your recently installed wind generator, how you have downsized your limos to a bicycle, how you turn off the electrical power at 7:30 pm....

Until you have demonstrated leadership, I will continue to view you, as one good looking women....

Yours truly

Fellow Citizen

[Elyse]

How about stop buying music cds since cds are made from Benzine.

I predict that Babs response to your suggestion would be - "I'm all verklempt *sniff*...talk amongst yourselves... let me give you a new topic."

[Cincinatus]

Reminds me of an old joke...

"What are you doing with that pig!?!?" he asked.

Babs: "This happens to be a dog!"

"I was talking to the dog!!"

[Piquaboy]

That would solve California's electrical problems. Great idea!

[Last Laugh]

Nice jab on Rosie. Or did you mean the other dog?

LOL!

[layman]

Make sure doors are closed when running heaters

Damn! Why didn't I think of that? Thanks for the tip, Babs.

[RSmithOpt]

Yup! Now that's an energy effecient use of resources and labor to replace that mansion when it goes swimming, isn't it?

Awwwh Heck! I ain't suppoda sayz zem thangs. I'z nots a rich elitist liberal like sheez beeze. Sheez zackly knowz howz to run the plantation for all us poor dumb bastards, right?

[nascarnation]

why do I feel the urge to buy a big honkin motorhome?

[trisham]

Which one?

[trisham]

My eyes! My eyes!