What are some things you can do to help the planets enviroment?

Question

I am asking what each individual person can do, and what you may already do. I hope this question will bring good ideas out for everyone to use.

There are so many good answers here that I am going to have to put this up for a vote, please read through these (there aren't many) and pick your favorite!

Answer 1

You don't really need to ask this question because you already know the answer. The most effective ways an individual can help are pretty much cliche nowadays.

First, do whatever you can to use less gasoline. Walk when you can, carpool if you have to drive, and drive an efficient vehicle, there is no reason for most people to drive trucks unless they are working on a farm.

Second, go open your window blinds and turn off the lights. What you may not know is that even if you pay some power company that operates off wind generators, you are not necessarily getting power from those generators alone. Electricity goes into the national grid and gets all mixed together so everyone is using wind power, coal power, natural gas, nuclear, everything. Just decrease the amount you use, and you will decrease the amount of fossil fuels being burned.

Use paper instead of plastic/styrofoam. Styrofoam causes air pollution when it is produced, and can not be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner, Burning it causes air pollution, burying it in a landfill can make the ground toxic. Plastic simply does not biodegrade. The plastic bag you got at the grocery store and threw out will still be in the landfill a million years from now, which leads to the next thing you can do...

Recycle. It is a fairly easy thing to do, and it ensures that we are not wasting materials. Aluminum has to be mined and processed, same with glass. Plastic is bad for the environment when thrown away.

Obviously always dispose of things in the proper manner, like don't throw batteries in with your regular trash, find out what your city offers in recycling them. I just have a box I keep my used batteries in and twice a year the city sets up someplace to accept all the hazardous waste that people have.

Just spend some time thinking about this stuff, you already know it all.

Answer 2

LOL, I love the recycle comments. House hold recycling is a waste of money and resources and was not initially promoted to 'help the environment'. It was derived out of a bad EPA study that suggested we are running out of landfills. The EPA later went and retracted that study as bogus - too late to stop the recycling craze. If you look at the data, household recycling costs a ton of money (~3 billion in taxes in the US/year), wastes water and fuel. It is a net energy loser.

Industrial recycling has a bit of energy benefit, simply because it is more efficient in gathering the resources, and the resources are typically metal - esp. aluminum and steel, which are energy intensive to smelt from ore. However, steel recycling has a negative impact in some cases as the quality of steel that contains recycled material is often inferior to raw smelted steel 100% from ore.

Anyway - what can you do that has real impact? Leave as small an environmental footprint as possible. Drive a car that gets good gas mileage (>30mpg city). Own a modest house that is well built and insulated. Don’t fall into fads like e85fuel (again, ADM's lobby inspires massive misinformation). Use high efficiency appliances, don’t become a super consumer that has to replace all your clothes/cars/TVs/etc when the ones you have are just fine. Contact your congressional representatives and tell them you want tighter controls on emissions from industry. Tell them you want tax benefits to farmers who use no-till, low fertilizer fields.

Oh, and don’t have a litter of children. One is fine. The causes for many of these issues is that there are just too many people now.

There is surprisingly little you can directly do to impact the environment positively – however if you pressure the law makers, there is much that can be done by them with a stroke of the pen. However, most lobby groups are simply misinformed of the actual issue and spend time on stuff they are told are good (E85 fuel, recycling, etc).

Answer 3

Recycle, Reduce and Reuse. Buy products that say they are made from Recycled materials. Ride a Bike instead of driving. If you have to drive then use a Hybrid or car that runs on Biodiesel or E85 Ethanol. Plant trees anywhere and everywhere you can. Consider buying Solar panels or a Wind mill or Geothermal Energy. Where organic clothing such as Hemp. Recycle all cardboard, paper, Metal, Aluminum, Glass, Steel, Plastic bottles and bags, Paper grocery bags. Also if You have enough money
consider Investing In green Companies or Organizations. Also come and Join this Website www.StopGlobalWarming.org

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Dear imaBiggles the U.S. waste alot of money on a lot more than Recylcling and Yes it is cheaper to Recycle rather than use Equipment, Drilling, and transportation to just harvest raw resources. Plus it cost alot more Electricity and Fossil Fuels just to purify Metal that has been mined such as steel. You are Stupid. Remember to think before you Type.

Answer 4

1. Unplug un-used items ... like when my cell phone isn't being charged, unplug the charger ... unplug the TV when not in use.

2. Use energy efficient light bulbs.

3. Minimize using energy between 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM.

4. Fill up on gas late at night --- In the middle of the day the gases hurt the environment.

5. Find a job that lets me work from home or get a job close to the office to eliminate/reduce commuting time.

Answer 5

you've more suitable than some fallacies or misunderstandings on your actuality. one million. Earth the planet should not be destroyed. it really is nigh not plausible to damage 1000000000 more than a number of iron it really is quite a lot what the earth is. 2. people will die, not all life. We because the apex predators are vastly more suitable tender to creatures demise lower than us on the nutrition chain. As more suitable stuff lower than us dies out then we lose nutrition sources. As nutrition turns into more suitable scarce then we commence to die off using starvation and such. micro organism is so more suitable adaptable than we are. Even now those who keep using the antibacterial hand sanitizers are arising more suitable more suitable resistant micro organism. 3. international Warming is a undeniable actuality. The temperatures are raising globally. that is been getting hotter and hotter considering we all started recording temperatures oftentimes. it somewhat is irrefuttable actuality. The earth is going via temperatues ameliorations evidently. no matter if that is going to cool off lower back to the way it replaced into is a diverse tale. no matter if our planet will finally end up like Venus is people using information to come back to conclusions yet those conclusions at the prompt are not absolute. more suitable than in all likelihood they're genuine and we are destroying our preserving layer of ozone and arising too a lot CO2 so as that warmth isn't allowed to deplete outdoors our ecosystem. not purely that yet Oil organizations and different countless destroyers of the enviorment are hiring "scientists" to declare that we are not doing that. The very last time this got here about in us of a of america replaced into even as tobacco replaced into being accused of being horribly undesirable for us. Tobacco organizations paid scientists somewhat properly to lie and say smoking did not reason any of the topic matters it did. This confident a large style of people that it wasn't as undesirable because that is because they fell for the propaganda.

Answer 6

I recycle as much as possible and have a compost pile in my backyard. I also take public transportation and when I can't, I drive a small car that is fuel efficient. I use hydrogen light bulbs. I buy organic food (helps with water pollution!!).

Answer 7

REturn, REuse, and REcycle.

Stop using styrofoam cups and plastic baggies that are not biodegradable and cannot easily be disposed of in any ecologically-friendly way.

Instead of letting all your trash be hauled away and buried in a landfill, take it to a recycling center where they accept scrap paper; newsprint; magazines; aluminum; plastic; tin cans; steel; cardboard; phone books; cooking oil; asphalt; and anything else that can possibly be recycled. -RKO-

Answer 8

recycle, buy items that are not overpackaged, replace regular light bulbs with florescent bulbs, take a bus, or ride a bike to work or school instead of driving a couple times a week, drive a hybrid car, buy organic food, run your air conditioner less, buy recycled paper products.

Answer 9

I am doing the following to help the environment:
-Recycle
-Drive less
-Maintain species of carnivorous plants that exsist in a small portion of the US in my back yard.
-I embrace wild life in my back yard. (bird feeders, pond, etc.)
-I do not waste water.
-I conserve engergy.

Answer 10

I don't really do anything to help the environment. The way i see it is that I will be dead by the time my lifestyle effects the environment.