What Steps Can I Take To Be More Eco-Friendly?

Question

What Steps Can I Take To Be More Eco-Friendly?

Answer 1

It's easy to start, and just doing a little bit goes a long way.  Start by checking out your local dump/recycling center, usually they will take:  Glass bottles, tin cans, cardboard,( and this includes ALL packaging from food, toys, mail packages, egg cartons,electronics, etc) plastics....You'll be amazed at how little trash you will have after you recycle everything.  Grocery stores usually have bins that recycle your old plastic and paper bags.  Get a compost bucket for your compostable food and BUY LOCAL ITEMS WHEN AVAILABLE (Think of the energy used to transport those hard to get foods from Peru) Just think, if everyone did this, our planet would be that much better!

Answer 2

Send an e-card instead of a paper card. this saves paper. a good ecard website is www.123greetings.com.

also read this cool book called `50 SAVES TO SAVE THE EARTH`. it has some good ideas.

Answer 3

walk more, dont use the car as much,

use the computer less, make a vegetable plot and eat from there or sell it, plant trees, recycle and put all your u eaten food in a composter!

hope that helps

Answer 4

Plant seeds. Those that grow in soil and those that grow in fertile minds as good ideas. You already are, you know! Find a vacant lot or a vacant mind  and begin. Image planting tulips bulbs in a patch of dirt where a child might pick them for his Mom on his way home from school next spring.

Answer 5

recycle

walk, use public transit, carpool, drive an small compact car or a hybrid.

use florescent lightbulbs throughout your house

compost

plant native plants in your garden, plant a tree

eat organic

buy environmentally friendly products

turn off water when brushing your teeth

take short showers

wear a sweater when cold rather than running your heater

get involved in a neighborhood clean-up

become on online activist for environmental issues..sign petitions etc.

Answer 6

check your backyard environmentally friendly you can ask people to do this

Answer 7

Good morning!

By lowering your carbon footprint.  

    http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

By recycling to curb pollution

By conserving energy to lower your green house emissions

By using recycled products

By planting trees

By using public transportation or walking

By conserving water

In Hawaii we say, "Malama the aina."  Or take care of the land.  

I think this is a great start to living a more eco-friendly lifestyle.  There's so much more we can do to help our world to be a better place for the future.

Aloha!  =0)

Answer 8

I have started saving newpapers. Wal mart has a been bin that one can bring their papers and throw them in. I take mine at least every 2 weeks there.

Answer 9

reduce, reuse & recycle

reduce youre carbon footprint, buy localy grown foods, plant a tree, send a letter to youre senator asking them to do as much as you do, urge youre friends to save the planet for future generations remember that ALL of youre ancestors saved what you are now using. Keep asking these kinds of questions

Answer 10

Get off the computer and save electricity.