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Plz help save the earth!!!?

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Can you plz help save the earth the earth needs our help can you plz write that you will save the earth heres some ways you can:

In your home

1. Recycle everything: newspapers, bottles and cans, aluminum foil, etc.

2. Don't use electrical appliances when you can easily do by hand, such as opening cans.

3. Use cold water in the washer whenever possible.

4. Re-use brown paper bags to line your trash can instead of plastic bags. Re-use bread bags and produce bags.

5. Store food in re-usable containers.

6. Save wire hangers and return them to the dry cleaners.

7. Donate used items to a charitable organization or thrift shop.

8. Don't leave water running needlessly.

9. Turn your heat down, and wear a sweater.

10. Turn off the lights, TV, or other electrical appliances when you are out of a room.

11. Flush the toilet less often.

12. Turn down the heat and turn off the water heater before you leave for vacation.

13. Recycle your Christmas Tree. Learn how

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In the yard

14. Start a compost pile.

15. Put up birdfeeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths.

16. Pull weeds instead of using herbicides.

17. Use only organic fertilizers.

18. Compost your leaves and yard debris, or take them to a yard debris recycler.

19. Take extra plastic and rubber pots back to the nursery.

20. Plant short, dense shrubs close to your home's foundation to help insulate your home against cold.

21. Use mulch to conserve water in your garden.

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In the car

22. Keep your car tuned up and your oil changed.

23. Carpool, if possible.

24. Use public transit whenever possible.

25. On weekends, ride your bike or walk instead.

26. Buy a car that is more fuel-efficient and produces lower emissions.

27. Recycle your engine oil.

28. Keep your tires properly inflated.

29. Keep your wheels properly aligned.

30. Save trash and dispose of it at a rest stop.

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In the office

31. Recycle office and computer paper, cardboard, etc.

32. Use scrap paper for informal notes to yourself and others.

33. Print or copy on both sides of the paper.

34. Use smaller paper for smaller memos.

35. Re-use manila envelopes and file folders.

36. Use dishes, glassware and coffee cups instead of disposible dishes and cups.

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At the store

37. Avoid buying food or products packaged in plastic or styrofoam containers since they cannot be recycled.

38. Think twice about buying "disposable" products. (They end up in landfills.)

39. Buy paper products instead of plastic if you must buy "disposables."

40. Buy energy-efficient appliancess.

41. Don't buy products, such as styrofoam, that are hazardous to the environment or manufactured at the expense of important habitats such as rainforests.

42. Buy locally grown food and locally made products when possible.

43. Don't buy products made from endangered animals.

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In your life

44. Join a conservation organization. Browse the JustGive Guide to find an environmental organization you would like to support.

45. Volunteer your time to conservation projects.

46. Give money to conservation projects.

47. Switch to a vegetarian diet. (Raising animals for food consumes vast quantities of natural resources, including water, land, and oil; destroys habitats; and generates a tremendous amount of water and air pollution.)

48. Encourage your family, friends, and neighbors to save resources too.

49. Learn about conservation issues in your community or state. Write your legislators and let them know where you stand on the issues.

50. Teach children to respect nature and the environment. Take them on hikes or camping. Help them plant a tree or build a birdhouse.

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  1. That is just too much work. I am so lazy that I am not worried about the planet. I leave all of my lights, tv, radio, and computer on 24 hours a day. I drive a hummer also. The way I figure it is that I will be dead before the environment goes to c**p.


  2. I try to do all I can to help save the planet, but it's hard.

  3. A couple of problems with your cut and paste

    4. paper bags use more energy than plastic. the dont decompose in landfills for up to 40 years. It takes the same amout of energy to make 1 paper bag as it does to make 500 plastic bags.

    37. most plastics can be recycled

    38. What do you mean?

    39. Paper is not energy efficent and is more harmful than the manufacturing of plastic.

    41. Styrofoam does not come from trees. Dont buy ethonal that is a major cause of rainforest defoesstation

    43. Can't import endangered products

    47. What if you hunt? I am not farming just eating what I kill and helping to control a population of wild deer.

  4. Is letting my Hummer idle in my driveway all night good, cause thats what i do.

  5. we do try to keep up with going green,we have replaced all of our lightbulbs also, thanks for the new ideas..

  6. i am very glad to see when people are concious to environment.... and i m doing so... it's my humble request to all people.come forward to save lovely, clean and green environment...and make sure that the devils of environment cannot accomplish their s**t tasks...

       GUD LUCK to clean and green environment

  7. wtg. i try to do all i can

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