What are the ways to conserve natural resources?

Answer 1

Turning the water off while brushing and giving the water I use to rinse out my water jug w/ to my plants.

Answer 2

HI I am Ashish from India

I think today the whole globe has understood the importance of Environmental resources. Environmental economists have developed several valuation methods so that the cost of human activities on the environment can be assessed. By the valuation of natural resources proper regulations and tax policies have been defined in many developed countries. In this way policy makers work to conserve natural resources.

Second would be to encourage research and development initiatives in this field. By doing so there is a possibility that in the near future we might be able to find out some substitute of natural resources by the modern method of recycling of waste products.

But I believe the best policy is the individual initiative. It is the people who make an environment worst, and only their effort can help the environment to sustain.

Answer 3

The truth is natural resources are renewable. That means that if you cut down a tree for a house you can plant another one. My suggestion is to plant more than you cut.

Another idea is to reuse it or recycle it. If you use paper for school, rather than throughing it into a landfill, use it to heat your home. Recycling saves a lot of energy to make containers etc.

Solar passive heat is free. That is where the sun shines on the bricks of your fireplace and the heat from the bricks goes back into your living room. Design your home to take advantage of passive solar. Placement on the lot makes a big difference. The savings last as long as you live in the home.

If you want to save water there is an old saying, "If it's brown flush it down, if its yellow, mellow". It sounds sort of gross but flushing takes a lot of water and if you can't do it during the day at least cut back in the middle of the night when flushing wakes everybody up anyway.

Energy companies publish huge volumes of material on energy conservation. Go to their websites. PG&E, AVISTA, etc.

Answer 4

Start at home. Don't forget that using electricity causes pollution so don't use electricity if you don't have to!! I mean do you really need a seperate device to make "Smores"? come on. Then of course, recycle, recycle, recycle, create a compost heap in your backyard of your organic refuse and grow your own veggies and fruits. Join organizations dedicated to this cause, such as The Sierra Club or Earth Justice or Greenpeace. Why not all three? Become a vegetarian. The meat industry pollutes the earth like crazy and if we took all the food that we feed to animals and gave it to humans instead, we could feed the planet several times over. Yes it is in our power. Write to congress to emphasise the importance of alternative energy sources such as wind and solar. Do not accept the lies spewing out of the current administration about the environment. They are in the pockets of polluting Big Business. Ok well that is a start.

Answer 5

That's a very broad question.

Here are some tips you, personally can do!

1) Install compact fluorscent light bulbs in your home. They often use like 50% less electricity than their incandescent counterparts. Less consumption = less production = less natural resources used!

2) Try and walk, ride a bike, or use public transportation.

3) Reuse and recycle various goods. You know what I mean here.

Eventually, we'll begin to run out of resources and we'll start using alternative sources, such as fuel cells instead of internal combustion engines. Wind/solar/nuclear over coal/natural gas. making plastics out of things other than petroleum-sources.

Answer 6

there are different ways to conserve our natural resources. you can start in your home by turning off the lights when no one is using it, turn the air-conditioning into fan 5 minutes before you leave the room, use a glass if you are brushing your teeth, and a lot more.

Answer 7

Stop being so greedy. In other words, it takes natural resources to build 2nd automobiles, 2nd homes, every pair of shoes so that if you own 200 pair and only wear 20 you've wasted the resources that it took to go into 180 pair of shoes. Over packaging of items in the marketplace--wasting anything, especially food.

Answer 8

Walk or ride the bicycle.

Try to buy things without packaging. Bring your own sacks (bags), boxes, a backpack to carry the items you buy.

Lower your thermostat, or turn off the air conditioning or heating altogether. Wear sweaters and thermal clothing in cold weather when you're inactive.

Reuse old lumber from houses, barns, and existing structures rather than buying new lumber. Reuse nails.

Don't waste anything. Used bathwater can water the plants, urine can be mixed with water to fertilize the garden outside. Hair is good for mixing with soil to fertilize roses and other flowers.

More ideas can be got from Mother Jones and other books and magazines.

Answer 9

Find alternative uses for ALL READY SPENT NATURAL RESOURCES.

Educate and retrain the present generation of users especially the young adults of today who seem to be the majority spenders of all natural resources. RECYCLE-RECYCLE-RECYCLE.

Set definitive rations of use as per local needs, in example more allowances for industrial users and less for homeowners with less actual need. I know to many people who leave their air conditioners on all day just so they won/t have to bother themselves with actually 'Having to turn it on when they get home'. This behavior is very selfish and extremely wasteful of electricity created by natural water power, fossil fuels etc.

Answer 10

if all items never had any packaging, i bet the dumps with be 1/2 of their size witch would mean way less natural resources being used in the packaging and the process of making the packaging

Answer 11

Take a look at your trash and see all the things you can do without or substitute. Pampers or paper towels? Use cloth. Get a high mpg hybrid car. You alone wont make that much of a difference but at least you know that you personally are doing what you can