What little ways do you do to help the environment?

Question

Share your tips and what you do to help the environment. Green is good.

Answer 1

i'm vegetarian, and that actually is helping the environment. you'd be surprised to see some of the levels of methane that are emitted just from livestock. but other really small things help too. like switching to flourescent bulbs. they are cheap, last long and help so much! also, be conservative with your water. watch the faucet when you brush your teeth or take shorter showers (9 minutes is plenty time, believe me!) and just take the extra 30 seconds to make sure that all lights in your house are switched off.

Answer 2

I don't,

and green is NOT good!

Answer 3

1:Being vegetarian.

2:not flying if not necessary

3:always buying ecologic.

4:dont buy poison stuff for example from china(if there is no made in sign ont he produt its always from china)

5:walk to shop.

6:taking bus,train(not so often though because the 1000times higher cellphone radiation in moving vehicles)

7:leaving recyclable stuff to recycle plant.

and much more :)

Answer 4

Well the first thing i did is make a video about global warming and show it too my peers at my school to educate them about the problem.

Then, although my family has always recycled, i started doing more seperation and i convinced my parents to get a second bin so we could recycle more of our stuff.

Another thing i do is ride my bike more places that i would normally get driven such as the park. I also convinced my family and some of my friends to get flourescent "green" light bulbs and low flow showerheads. I am getting a car next year and im trying to convince my dad to get me a hybrid.

That's what i've been doing!

P.S. I also turn more lights off but i have NOT become a vegetarian. I like meat and the more plants that are ripped out of the ground, the more carbon is released from the soil.

Answer 5

by recycling, try to use less plastic bags

use natural cleansers and natural household products

Answer 6

i recycle my cans and bottles. sweep instead hose the driveway, bike and walk to places intead of driving. and i do my number 1's and 2's in my backyard when no one is looking, lol to save all thise gallons of water!

Answer 7

Read Here...

http://article.ezedir.com/Environment/

Answer 8

Dont ride a car!!! use a bike!!!

Must have a garden at home!!!!

Never use CFC refrigerators or air conditioners!!!!

Always segregate your trash!!!!

Answer 9

I became a vegan, I make sure I keep the lights off if I don't need it. I don't drive around the corner. I don't litter, I actually pick up trash sometimes....if there's a trash can nearby. Got involved in an environment group at college. I don't leave my laptop/tv on all night like some people do....It's not that hard. Oh yeah and recycling when I can.

Answer 10

I recycle, I changed all light bulbs to fluorescents, I don't buy water in water bottles, I use less plastic bags, but what i do use, as i said i recycle, no lights unless necessary, only heat and cool house right now with open windows and a fan.

Answer 11

Became a pure vegetarian.

Answer 12

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Answer 13

I have several little tips that might be of help to you, one of them is recycle your old towels cut cutting them into large squares.  Then get yourself a plastic garbage can or a container to put all these rags, and you can use these rags again and again washing them separately from your other laundry.  This saves on the costs and the depletion of trees to make paper towels.

in recent years it has been brought to the attention of local community leaders, but garbage bags that are plastic and been flying all over the place they are a distraction and an eyesore.  Wal-Mart and some other companies have placed large containers where you can return your plastic bags at no cost to you, and they will recycle and reuse them again making it environmentally friendly.

One thing I like to do, is take aluminum cans, and go to the local recycling centers, and call around before I do to find the best price I can get for my aluminum cans.  If you would like to be kind other people, I oftentimes have too many aluminum cans if you can imagine that.  So I will call the local Habitat for Humanity company and they will come at no cost to me and pick up the aluminum cans.  This is good for our environment, this is good for people who need a new home, and it just makes good common sense to help out your own local community.  Let's face it not everybody can swing a hammer!  I'm not trying to sound preachy it's just something that it's nice to do.

another thing I like to do is to go through magazines that do arts and crafts or to check on the Internet or check with my friends to see if they know how to turn things like plastic containers into useful household objects.  I take the lids off of coffee cans, and put them under plant holders so that when I water my plants the water only escapes into the lid.  I have another friend who likes to collect bleach plastic containers, she uses the containers to make Santa Claus faces she uses a lot of yarn for this and some other byproducts that she comes across she's really insane I love it

I think what it takes is an inventive mind someone who thinks out of the box and is not afraid to use their talents.  I think the minute we start teaching our children the positive benefits from recycling, and using their noggin, I think this world will benefit immensely from it.  I hope this helps you!

Eventually, people will be forced in one way or another to sort their garbage or the recycling center will sort themselves.  This is going to be a big booming business and those that do so now are going to make a lot of money in the future.  This is a good thing in the environment also because it gives people jobs here in the United States.  I am very pro-environment

Answer 14

go green or go home

the environment  is a precious thing

think of the environment as a diamond

see u would take care of the diamond so take care of the environment many animals are dieing because of us

they shouldn't suffer are ways of life

i pick up trash and recycle. i plant trees and plants in parks, also i but bird feeders around parks and forests. also etc.