2006-09-06 10:47:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
All but one of these suggestions are good- just to add to them, check with your local parks and/or botanical gardens for volunteer opportunites.
If you have a house with a yard, try to plant as many native plants as possible, reduce the area of lawn. Trees are always good, or prairie if you're in that area of the country.
I'd also like to plug my favorite charity, the Nature Conservancy. Because of the help of a lot of people giving a little bit, they were recently able to protect (either buy outright or get conservation easements on) about 700,000 acres of forestland along the East Coast.
http://www.nature.org/
2006-09-07 01:57:25 · answer #1 · answered by Megan S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have already done two thinks:
1. Acknowledge it is a problem, and
2. Asked what to do about it.
Next, I would rally friends, buy some cheap t-shirts with some snappy saying, and go to your park or walk the streets and pick up trash. Make a call to the paper about what you are doing and why, and see if any publicity rolls in.
All while, reduce pollution by:
Light pollution - Always turn off any electrical light or power source when not in use. Saved on your power bill, and resources
Noise pollution - Keep your TV, radio and iPods down to a respectable volume.
Air pollution - Don't smoke, walk or that PT when you can, ride a bike, keep your car well-maintained, carpool, watch for hazardous chemicals from household products.
Garbage - Fins a recycling center in your area. Most now accommodate old phone books, text books, newspapers, most plastics, glass, and all sort of metals. Keep your yard natural and clean at all times, and minimize chemicals to keep rivers and streams clear. If you see garbage on the street, pick it up and throw it away.
Just a little bit, as mentioned above, by a little bit of people everywhere, will protect the children from our nasty habits.
Way to go! Keep it up.
2006-09-06 17:59:09 · answer #2 · answered by rouschkateer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Promote Birth Control
2006-09-07 12:26:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Recycle, Recycle. Start a compost pile. Watch how you dispose of things. Get your yard certified as a national wildlife habitat so no one can kill the animals on your land. Catch rain water to water your plants. Put out bird feeders and bird baths. Grow plants with berries so the bird will have food in the winter.
2006-09-07 05:27:31 · answer #4 · answered by tensnut90_99 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless You Become The Next Bill-Gates Or President...Unfortunatly Nothing
2006-09-06 17:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Learn about water conservation - it's going to get more critical as time goes by, we'll be needing some expert leadership!
2006-09-06 22:08:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Study Steve Irwin. That is what his life was all about. He made (is making) millions of dollars and puts it all back into the environment and education (Australia Zoo)
2006-09-06 17:54:41 · answer #7 · answered by Aussie Ray 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
recycle, practice conservation, join local groups in
doing projects. if each of us will do our little part, the
cumulative effect will be enormous.
2006-09-06 17:56:36 · answer #8 · answered by agedlioness 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
buy private land, leave it natural and don't develope it!!!
2006-09-06 17:50:14 · answer #9 · answered by rooster2381 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋