I have too much money so would like to spend some on improving the environment, how would you help me spend it

Question

I live in Australia and Hong Kong, maybe someone has an invention or development idea that needs an injection of capital?

Answer 1

too much money? are you bill gates? anyway, just put it to a good cause like cancer research, HIV research, genocide in sudan, i read something in sports illustrated about buying mosquito nets for kids in africa to help keep malaria down, etc.... there's plenty of things you could donate too, especially a lot of money like that, but if you want to help the environment, maybe put it towards research for finding another energy source besides gas (though there are already many), or global warming research, etc.

Answer 2

I would like to say first off, that if you can do something positive for the environment, you can benefit the world and all of it's enhabitants. You can't go wrong there. Secondly, you must watch your money and how it's being used very closely, or other country's govts. will squander the money and very little good will come out of your donations. The USA has sent much money, food , and supplies to other countries, just to have it end up rotting in warehouses because the people had no way to get it, and the gov't. of their country didn't bother to distribute it to the starving masses.

Answer 3

I have ocean front property in Idaho for sale. Interested?

Actually, if one had too much money, finding a way to collect all plastic, rubber and glass from the worlds trash cans and reusing it would be perhaps one of the most helpful to our environment. Most of the remaining trash is degradable. Aluminum and other metals have a value and are easily salable. (I don't believe we can change weather patterns, so don't waste any money on that).

Perhaps we could put pressure on soda, milk, juice and bottled water companies to put a refund amount for returning empties. Like we once had on pop bottles. Plenty were tossed along side the road, but there was always someone eager to collect them. They were rarely put into the trash.

Answer 4

What you can do is... Buy trees and plant them. Or donate your spare $$ to a zoo, or something! XD

Answer 5

You could invest in large scale solar and wind power.  They are up and coming but don't seem to have corporate or large scale support yet.  Also encourage businesses to begin using it.  If it could become mainstream we could cut down on fossil fuel use significantly.

Answer 6

Invest in solar energy.  Help others who can't afford it convert to solar.  Also, water.  The biggest issue of the future.  Fund research to clean our water sources and ways to make it accessible globally (particularly in land-locked countries).

Answer 7

Donate some or all of it to a nonprofit like Greenpeace that has proven results in helping the environment.

Here are just a few of Greenpeace's victories for the Earth since their inception in 1971:

*an end to nuclear testing.

*a global ban on dumping radioactive waste at sea.

*an international moratorium on commercial whale hunting (Japan now claims to be killing whales for "scientific purposes" and GP is fighting to end the slaughter.)

*saving five million acres of the Canadian Great Bear Rainforest from logging destruction.

Answer 8

Announce a "Ansari-X" like prize. Ansari X prize gave a real boost to space exploration by private parties. The key is to introduce "extraordinary rewards for extraordinary performance" to energize people.

http://www.xprize.org

At the moment the biggest problem is gas guzzling vehicles. It will take forever till hybrids become majority. But you can offer a prize to come up with "Hybrid retrofit". That is a system that will enable aftermarket tweaking of existing cars to make them hybrid.

Please refer my blog for some more ideas on conservation.

http://savingenergy.wordpress.com

If I have still kept your interest so far, then the second thing to work on is power generation. It is myth that the technology for windmills and solar panels is the bottleneck. The real bottleneck is innovative business models to take existing technology and make it fit peoples' lives. For example, Microsoft did not wait to offer a user friendly operating system till fast PCs came. They made things user friendly, they took whatever computer they had and turned it in household machine. The Moore's law and curve of expanding returns followed later.

Me and a couple of my friends are working on innovative business models to "deliver" solar and wind energy products to peoples' lives. I believe we have potential to begin "the curve of expanding return". The curve of expanding returns for alternative energy is right around the corner. I believe it and I have invested significant portion of my retirement savings in alternative energy. But I did not begin the answer with my idea because we are still in rigorous brainstorming stage.

The crux of the idea is to provide windmills and solar panels as service, not as products. That will enable end users a lot of flexibility and reduce the threshold of technical expertise required. This can be done in various ways, like letting people host their windmill on a farm, charge them for land lease and maintenance, sell the electricity generated and give part of the revenue to the windmill owner.

I can keep writing forever, but don't want to bother you and all readers with all the details at one place. So contact me if you are interested.

K

Answer 9

I have several good ideas

One is an electric automobile that functions just as well as a petro automobile but generates its on power. I have no funding to make it a reality.

I have a couple of ideas for a device that I believe will create energy on its own without using any outside resources and will produce no pollution.

I believe that my ideas with a little trial and error will work, the initial cost to attempt these is actually quite small. Obviously once I could prove that they work funding would come in from all directions. If the oil companies don't have me assassinated :)

I have no funding what so ever. If you would like to more information send me an email. I am willing to share limited information to someone that is interested in investing. Otherwise I am going to continue to keep them to myself.

I don't know how I could help you any more then by offering pollution free transportation and energy generation.

Answer 10

Definitely, solar power. This technology is enticing but not ready for prime time. I lived "off-grid" in Arizona for seven years. Even with Arizona's abundance of sunny days, it was a struggle at times to get by on the available solar power. Even though we had a generator, our "game" was to try not to use it. The batteries failed often and expensively. I would say that the two aspects needing the most urgent attention are lowering the cost of solar panels and improving battery technology. Whoever solves the battery issues will be very wealthy!

Answer 11

Invest in education. We need creative thinkers to help solve problems. If you give research funding to universities, there will be students and faculty members able to make some important advancements.

Answer 12

First of all, don't give your money to your communist government. I say spend money on your community. Buy trees and plant flower and make it pretty. Or solar panels and such.

Answer 13

Dude, I recycle, ride a bike and work for a wind energy company.  Give some to me :)  A really great place to start would be searching the internet for investor conferences such as the 2007 Clean Energy Venture Summit that took place in May in Austin, TX.  You can check out the Austin Clean Energy Incubator website for some great venture-capital backed companies that still need funding:  

http://www.cleanenergyincubator.org/

Try to find similar conferences and go to them.  Early stage companies always need money.  The absolute last thing I would do is post a message on Yahoo Answers.  Unless you're just s******g around.

Answer 14

give to the recovery of endangered gray wolves

Answer 15

if you have as much money as you are suggesting buy an empty lot and turn it into a community garden and allow everyone to plant something in there.Or you could buy solar panels to cut down on electricity and save you money because i watch that show "extreme makeover home edition" and they used those solar panels on a home they built and the electric bill for the people that lived there was only $20 a year!How about doing your yard to make it animal-safe?You could buy squirel and bird feeders and put out a water feature and flowers.Every little bit helps.

Answer 16

Use your money to make gas alternatives. Charge people a dollar less a gallon than gas is now. At these prices lots of hard working people are going broke. Spend money-make money.

Answer 17

Lots of money buys property ,which you can then protect ,and to make it viable ,then devellop it as an eco tourist project .

which  can be used as an educational platform as well as a safe haven for all manner of Fauna .

Answer 18

You can pour capital to the poor coconut farmers here in the philippines for intercropping fruit trees. Two birds in one shot-you plant trees and its income generating.

You can also help in the restoration of the devastated coral reefs, the shellter of the fishes. Its also two birds in one shot-you help the environment and you also help the fishermen by having abundant catch of fish.

Answer 19

Wish someone would come up with a way to dispose of the world's tires without polluting....making mats/rugs for outdoor patios,flower pots, etc.  I'm sure there are a bunch of things that could be done with this material once it was shredded.  How about it?  Do you want to invest in a project such as this???   Good luck and God bless

Answer 20

Buy some bracelets and give them to your friends who want to support the cause.

http://www.isupportgreen.org