Solar Powered Greenhouses
If you want to hear your indoor plants really giggle this spring, treat them to a "spa" vacation by making them a mini-greenhouse in your bathroom. Yes, you've probably been thinking that in order to have a greenhouse of your very own you would have to go to great expense and effort. Nay, nay. You can start "where you're at," so to speak, without spending a dime, or at least not more than a couple of bucks.
First, gather up all your green children—Fern, Ivy and Spidey—and take them into the bathroom. Fill your tub about six inches deep with water. Place your plants on top of inverted terra cotta pots. Get out the masking tape that you last used for mailing Christmas packages and tape a large plastic bag (dry-cleaner size) to the walls over the top of the tub. Then turn on the bathroom light. Viola! Instant greenhouse for your leafy loves. You can even take a vacation yourself for a couple of weeks and they will be perfectly happy while you are away. But don't be gone longer than two weeks.
Another way to get the greenhouse effect is to thoroughly water your plants, then stick bamboo sticks (or other tube-type device) into the pots and fasten a baggie around the pot with masking tape. Set your plants on a tray filled with pebbles. Add enough water so that the plants are sitting on the moistened pebbles. Then you can leave for a week if you want to.
Plants just love greenhouses because they stay warm and moist. They love that humidity stuff. The greenhouse effect for people, however, is different. The Greenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect that you hear so much about in the news combined with the words "global warming" is something environmentalists are especially concerned about. Environmentalists feel that the greenhouse effect—caused by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other gases—is threatening the future of the world's climate.
The theory is that a buildup in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases is causing the atmosphere to warm. This global warming is called the greenhouse effect because the growing accumulation of gases acts like a glass roof and traps heat, like a greenhouse does. Since weather statistics have only been taken for the last 150 years it's debatable whether the world is warming or not. But if it is warming, then it is feared that its effects would alter crop yields and water supplies, seas would rise, floods would swamp cities, pests would proliferate, diseases would spread, and humankind would suffer from drought, fires, and searing heat. What is really ironic, though, is that if people started raising their own food in greenhouses, then the greenhouse effect would be considerably lessened.
How's That? The increasing worldwide demand for food and transportation contributes to more greenhouse gases in the air every year. According to Saving The Earth, "Just getting up in the morning starts the cycle: When you turn on the bathroom light it probably uses electricity generated by the burning of fossil fuels, which pumps carbon dioxide into the air.
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