What activities can be done by Environment club in colleges?

Question

we, a group of students have started a environment club in our college. but we are are not clear in what direction we should proceed. what actions can we undertake as college students(engineering college) to help protect our environment and spread awareness. please help!

Answer 1

Help a school, church, daycare center or nonprofit agancy to start a recycling program; regularly clean a section of road and/or river;  since u are engineering students u could work on a project to invent a new product that would save energy.  Solar lawn equipment would be fabulous since lawn mowers, leaf blowers, etc have no pollution equipment and create more pollution per minute run than cars.

Answer 2

Research how the health of your community is impacted by sanitary sewer overflows.   In the early 1900's mortality rates went down when people were hooked up to sewers, but now those sewer lines are deteriorating, and fixing them in lower class neighborhoods is not a big political priority.  

Look at cities and towns that allow old wildcat connections through other people's property, especially if they also allow storm water from roofs to be dumped into those sewer lines.

Pipes in the late 1800's and early 1900's were made of terra cotta, and many are now cracked and filled with silt.

Not only the people in the neighborhoods get sick.  The overflow finds its way into the groundwater, and then into streams and the water supply.

Answer 3

go on 1 long walk 1 day out in the country where its really clean and then on anouther day go into the town and then on ANOTHER day, go to a place where ther is like a big road in the middle of the countryside [like weatherby if your near their]

Answer 4

hold a jean drive at your school and donate the jeans to a recyclinig plant

Answer 5

Why don't you discuss "NASA's Clean Air Plant Study" with your group and see if this is the right direction.  

You may use my best recycling idea if you wish.

My Best Recycling Idea

Besides recycling the plastic containers, you can improve your work or home environments by bringing live potted plants indoors.

Major items needed:

One empty plastic gallon container.   Tree Top Apple Juice is preferred, or equal in shape.

One empty plastic ½ gallon container.  Langers All Pomergranate Juice is preferred or equal.

Directions:  Lay the plastic gallon container on its side so the front label is facing up.  Place the empty plastic half gallon container on the label and with a sharpie pen outline the bottom on the Tree Top label and with a sharp knife carefully cut the outline.  Insert the half gallon into the hole until it rest on the back label of the gallon container.  Then mark and cut approximately one inch above the cut on the ½ gallon  to complete your planter container.  Remove and drill several ¼ inch holes on the bottom of the ½ gallon cut container for drainage.

Fill the cut ½ gallon planter with one inch of gravel before putting in good potting mix soil and live growing plant.  If you make two or more you can pour the water back and forth and not waste the water with the nutrients.

Go to NASA’s Clean Air Plant Study for the top ten plants that cleans the indoor air better than the rest.   http://www.zone10.com/tech/NASA/Fyh.htm

You could set a goal to have at least one live potted plant in each room of your office or home.

Answer 6

beach clean up, plant some trees, protest animal testing.

Answer 7

How about trying to recycle all the non-returnable drink containers that end up in the trash ?  BILLIONS of these things are tossed every year.