What one action could each of us take would make a significant difference in terms of conservation?

Question

With global warming gaining more and more scientific backing there is much discussion about how to minimize usage of fossil fuels etc and ways to dimish waste. But is there one thing that, if each of us did, would make a significant difference? As I did a random search with my question I found the website below. It offers an interesting idea, but will it work? If so, how can we encourage everyone to do it and if not, then is there anything that will?

Thanks for reading!

http://donoevil.netscape.com/story/2007/02/23/18-seconds-can-change-the-world

Answer 1

recycle,recycle,recycle.....

Answer 2

Build a network of friends and willing particapents for a "clean up crew".

Answer 3

Crack the light bulb in your room and keep procrastinating in getting a new one. Save energy!

Answer 4

Don't eat out, especially fast food.

Answer 5

Conservation merely delays the identification and implementation of the solution to global warming.

Answer 6

That's a great idea, it'd be easy for everyone to do and can help those with less money or electricity, for example people in developing nations or Iraq.

Reduce how much you buy, Reuse what you have, and Recycle. Eat as little meat as possible, have less or no children- those will save you a lot of time, the former in keeping plaqued fat out of your arteries. Don't use electricity that's unecessary: no electric juicers or electric fragrance spreaders.

Answer 7

I can give you a ton of options, not using water while brushing teeth (as in during you are actually brushing not before and after) because each minute is 3 to 5 gallons down the drain.  Recycle soda cans and cardboard.  Turn down the temperature at nights or when you are gone (or don't play around with the thermostat constantly, it takes a lot of energy to keep changing temperatures).  Any one of these suggestions can make a big help

Answer 8

Start a compost pile and a little garden that makes fruit so you can reduce your need to drive to grocery stores and reduce the need to purchase fruits/transportation of the fruits.  Composting also reduces landfill waste and the weight that landfill trucks must transfer.  Also it reduces landfill waste junk and the need to destroy climax ecosystems (with trees and stuff) to put landfills.

Answer 9

Just one? Carpool.

Answer 10

Question your Government!

Answer 11

Stop wasting, and pray.

Answer 12

we can stop wiping our as* after we take a sh** and conserve tissue paper

Answer 13

Our only source of rain water is the monsoon,it has fallen short of average these past few years,this year it is late ,so sensible use of water is our main concern in India.I don't know if this taking things too far but i keep a large bucket by my kitchen sink,water that can be used in the garden is poured into the bucket,this means washing fruit vegetables,rinsing out utensils & such jobs need to be done in a container rather than in running water.It is amazing how many plants can be watered this way.A friend recently asked ,"  Do you have a blocked sink,why do you need to do this ? " ,so I'm wondering.

Answer 14

I think that if we can we need to be vegetarian, plant as many plants or crops as we can, and take the bus. Better yet just walk. And, it may seem weird but we need to ALL be considerate of other people and animals.

This may not be what they will do, but I think that someday, someone will pass a law that will make us give up our first born or something like that.

Answer 15

If half of the world would recycle and the other would stop riding in cars the effects of global would eventually come to a stop.

Answer 16

Global warming beyond the natural is a myth.

Answer 17

Easy.  Give up one's car.

Answer 18

STOP BREEDING!!!!! If you didn't have offspring, they wouldn't be around to leave the lights on, consume electricity, gas, kill animals, etc., etc.

Just stop having kids!

Live long and die out!