What are some ways a teen can help the environment?

Question

What are some ways a teen can help the environment?

Answer 1

Caring is the best way to help, congratulations!!

Read as much as you can about how to help the environment; things such as greenlightmag.com and motherearthnews.com and seventhgeneration.com and google things like composting, alternative energy, recycling.

The more you know, and the more you tell others, the more you get others to start thinking about it.

Kudos for wanting to help.

Answer 2

take your own canvas shoping bags to the grocery stores, don't accept bags from the stores if you do not really need it. You can also try to catch a ride to and from places if your all heading to the same place its the little things that matter. Always donate your stuff instead of throwing it away, and try to by products packaged in recycled material

Answer 3

-turn off computers, tvs, lights etc. when not in use

-pack a litterless lunch to school

-use www.blackle.com instead of www.google.com

-try to eat less meat, and eat more locally grown food

-instead of using the car, try to walk, bike, take public transit and etc. more

-reduce, reuse and recycle

-buy organic food and clothes (yes I said clothes!!!)

-take 5-minute showers (well try to, let yourself have a 10-minute shower once a week)

-when shopping, use a reusable bag (canvas bag)

The BEST thing you can do is educate others about helping the environment. You're spreading the word about green living, which is the BEST thing you can do.

Glad to see there are other environmentally savvy teens out there besides me :) (My friends and family say I care TOO much about the environment, but nothing is ever too much.)

Answer 4

not to smoke..pick up trash and separate.

Answer 5

And after you do all the suggestions your parents will see how passionate you are - then you can start asking them to buy or not to buy certain foods. Ask them to switch to green power (if u have that there- it helps wind farms)

You can talk to them about saving a bit of money and turning down the heat a few degrees.

  Give a talk at your school to you class about all the things you learnt... possibly if you write to a lighting company and tell them you will do this they  might even give  you free energy effecient light bulb samples to give to your class ( sound cute)...

Ask for a bike for christmas ( or a heavy duty lock for it)- insist on using it everywhere!

good luck..

Answer 6

Spend a single hour each week picking up trash alongside a roadway & transporting it to a proper waste disposal facility.  Good for your health, good for your community and good for the earth. Enjoy.

Answer 7

go to www.livinggreen.com and you'll find tons of ideas, just click on the "teens" link!

Answer 8

Yes we are doing it.

I mow the lawn with my horse

I only eat plants and animals that died of natural causes.

Never cook eat food raw or warmed in sun.

I drive a donkey cart to store

Wash clothes in creek by hand

dry the on rocks.

I only turn electric on for 1 hour a day.

take bath in creek or shower in rain.

Remodeling a cave to live in 50 degrees car battery for light.'

most of our clothes are hand woven out of hemp.

shoes for kids are made from leather road kill sandals and tires for bottom of shoes.

repaired old shopping cart for kids to collect empty soda cans.

Beds are old newspaper & tree Moss with hemp covering. furniture is made from logs and tree stumps.

Floor carpet is woven out of brightly colored plastic bags woven in circle.

My job is picking seed pine cones for forestry dept

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Henry Louis Mencken (1880- 1956 )

Answer 9

One thing that most teens do is use AIM. I know that most teens will put an away message up and simply walk away from their computers for hours at a time. A very simple way to save tons of energy would be to turn off the computer instead of putting an away message up or put the computer into 'sleep' mode.

Answer 10

try to recycle all those cans of soda you drinking....

Answer 11

Suzy Q has quite a number of good suggestions; here's a few more...

- keep frozen water bottles in the freezer to take up empty space.   Periodically move some of the ice bottles to the fridge...

your fridge & freezer will use alot less energy when extra space is filled with ice instead of air that escapes everytime you open the fridge...

if the power ever goes out, you'll have a ready-made ice box !

& less food will spoil.

- 4 watt night lights will keep you from having to turn on the overhead lights when you go into a room

- try to avoid using plastics & synthetics & when you do, recycle them...

- eating fruit instead of candy is better for the body & also the earth...sugarcane farming is destructive to natural eco-systems.

- check out the health food stores; lots of good ideas there.