How to help the enviroment?

Question

can anyone tell me five things we can do to help the enviroment and how does it actually help it ? thnx

Answer 1

http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/gath...

Answer 2

Recycling-

Picking up trash at the beach (or anywhere else)- any easy way to help the the ocean and the animals that inhabit it from dying from our trash

Stop junk mail-The junk mail Americans receive in just one day is not only a nuisance, but could produce enough energy to heat a quarter of a million homes! If you saved up all the unwanted junk mail for one year, you would have the equivalent to one and a half trees, which would add up to 100 million trees every year in just the United States. To help stop junk mail, write to: Mail Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, 11 West 42nd St., PO Box 3861, New York, NY 10163-3861. By writing to them, you can reduce junk mail by up to 75%. You can recycle the rest of the junk mail you receive.

Get rid of air conditioning- The power required to run air conditioning consumes fossil fuel, depleting reserves, and again, adding to global warming.

Recharge Your Batteries -- Batteries contain heavy metals, such as mercury and cadmium, which have become a major source of contamination in dump sites. They either break apart and are released into the soil or are incinerated and the deadly heavy metals are released into the air. Did you know that the average annual use of mercury in batteries is over what the government limits in dump sites by four times. Here is what you can do to help: use batteries which are rechargeable. Recycle alkaline batteries if you can. They can extract the mercury and cadmium for reuse

Answer 3

recycle: all things should be recycled

ride a bike or walk: use less on the car and more on the bike/walk. fuel costs are high.

grow a garden: to promote clean air, to reduce your dependance on the grocery store. save your money.

use less energy: turn off lights, shut down unused things. read a book, turn the TV off.

don't overkill of shopping: only get what you need, not what you want.

It can, as well help your pocket book. There are more extreme ways to make things much better. Such as, getting into 'free energy' ;)