1. food and drink: vegetables and meat need trucks which consist of metal and utilize oil, and on top of that my food has plastic wrapping and bad commercials using electricity advertise me these products.
2.housing: my apartment is mostly wood supported by steel beams.
3.transportation: I drive a bus, yes a bus. My bus has 8 wheels , that means a lot of rubber. Since I have a lot of company we are slowly saving the earth through mass carpool but it still has terrible mileage.
4. My clothing consist of 100% cotton. Since I deserve the best I buy the best quality. Cotton needs a decent amount of water if I'm correct.
5.school supplies, this is an emotional one because i think about all the school textbooks that I have had to buy. All that paper, there's a lonely tree out there somewhere.
5.For personal care products, I'll admit deodorant and and hair gel isn't made of the most world friendly chemicals, usually we just watch it go down the sink, but it all ends up somewhere.
So basically the Item I use the most involves electricity.
Coal is dug up and sent on trains and boats.
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The coal is burned to heat water to make steam.
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Inside the generator, the steam spins a big fan called a turbine.
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The spinning turbine rotates a big magnet around a piece of wire & that motion creates a magnetic field that electrifies the wire.
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The electric current flows through the wire and is pushed out through high-voltage transformers.
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