what are some actions i can take that can contribute to a sustainable world.?

Answer 1

recycle, make your home more energy efficient, drive a hybrid vehicle, plant trees.

Answer 2

Well now that you ask, I think all of us have to become more aware of people around us. Hold a door open for the person in back of you.
Say thank you when you should.
If you use public transportation, get up and give a old person your seat. Or a pregnant women.
Let someone go before on a line at a cashier if they only have 1 or 2 items and your cart is full.
become aware of who lives in your neighborhood,If they are old, shovel there walk up to there door,so they have access out of there home. If its a bad storm, see if they need anything from the store. Not only will these actions make you feel good but maybe if we all took the time out to do this, It would catch on and if would make a better world to live in. These deeds we were all taught and sometimes I wonder what happen, You will make a difference You don't have to invent something. of be the CEO of a company to make a contribution to society.

Answer 3

"sustainable" is a tricky word. In today's modern world, it most often means using resources wisely, rather than putting back exactly what you have taken. one big thing you can do is stop driving a car, or at least use biodiesel. If you have a lawn, only keep a portion for recreation...turn the rest of your yard into a vegetable garden or garden with plants native to the area you live in. lawns use a tremendous amount of water and chemicals. cut down water usage. Install a greywater system in your house. eating vegetarian also contributes to a more sustainable world. the energy it takes to produce a vegetable is a tiny fraction that it takes to produce an animal product. Buy locally...this cuts down on fuel used to transport good from far away.

Right now I am reading "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered" by E.F. Schumacher. It was written about 30 years ago, but it's still profound today. The basic premis is that if earth was treated like a company, our capital is our natural resources. We are using our resources at such an alarming rate for income that corporation earth is sure to go bankrupt. Of course, he is way more eloquent. I'm only on the third chapter, but he also says that if the whole world was to live live North Americans and Western Europe, that we would need several Earths to provide us with resources. Scary.

Answer 4

Don't pour motor oil down drains, or green anti freeze down the toilet ,keep recycling it ,everything that the 1st way, other way is to make sure everyone else is doing it as well, don't buy a imported vehicles, American made only ! help the homeless and feed the children of the world and stop drug abuse some of these things are out of your control but be aware of whats going on around you always, good question, make sure your vehicle is up to EPA standards so its not a polluter, be nice to all people lend a helping hand to the disable, deliver hot meal to those most unfortunate, stop by down town L.A. and feed just one homeless person one every day make some ones day by being kind and the list is long but it all on how sincere you really are and what your willing to do

Answer 5

Great question!
Next year if you have space for a garden plant an extra row and donate that to your local food bank.
When you can donate extra items to the food bank all year.
Go to www.makepovertyhistory.org , they have some good political things you can do to help eradicate poverty.
Go to the HungerProject on line and donate food or money.

Participate in litter clean ups or rescuing waterways like the Roughe River in Detroit.

Make your home and office as 'green' as possible, install led lights, unplug appliances you're not using.
Calk your doors. Eliminate spaces where air comes through your windows.
Use non toxic cleaning products.
Buy stuff with less packaging and recycle what you can.

Answer 6

Donate condoms to the third world...they have many uses including carrying water.

But I think your question is a serious one. And I wish we had some serious Governments to focus on this issue.

Why is Bush so concerned about Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea etc when the primaeval rainforest is diappearing at a phenomenal rate?

Global climate change has a huge momentum : it cranks up ever so slow, but will take millenia ro slow down..if ever. Perhaps it will take a hurrican to flatten th White House before he wakes up.

We live on a spaceship called Earth. It has LIMITED resources. We, the crew, have to learn how to manage and keep house. The Earth cannot contnue to be raped and plundered in a free4all

Answer 7

The single most FURURE conservation effort you could make is to have no children. The next best is have just one. People are the polluters, so a lower population pollutes less.
What you can do today is recycle, and help educate others.
To get to a sustainable world we must first get rid of about 90% of present day pollution causes. As you are probably aware, about 75-90% of that comes from big business producing for us, the consumers. If everyone would rethink what they actually "need" to survive, then pollution would go away and we would be all around healthier for it.
...jj

Answer 8

Hi, Brandon. I really congratulate you for having thought of such a noble idea! Fine. We find quite a small amount of people who are really concerned about the planet in which we live in. I propose the following actions that you can think of implementing: 1. Recycling the waste products.
2. Plant a tree in a week at least for a year.
3. Select ten illiterates and make them literate in a year.
4. Encourage childless couples to adopt female children.
5. Choose at least five AIDS persons and counsel them that they too can live normally and honourably.

Answer 9

the only actions that you can take is the ones that you will be responsible for, you can't take responsibility for everyones action.
so when ever you are out in the world no matter where your travels may take you, you be a man and stand up for what is right
give respect to get respect treat every woman and child as if your own be thier potector and not their violator, if you are not already in school prepare yourself so that when you do go you will be the employer not the employee and then you can show the working world that all jobs don't take its employees for granted. and last but not least make sure you vote so that you count, remember he that donot vote cannot complain.

Answer 10

Any action/work/ activity that contributes to the development of society and the self, without harming the environment or with a low impact in it,and that creates wealth or income or goods or welfare and that is capable or being repeated time after time endlessly, is something one can do and certainly won't hurt any.
That is my humble opinion.

Answer 11

Zap your Tap...(use less water)
Grow some trees...(put more oxygen in the air)
Get an electric scooter...(they are fun and no pollution)
Lots of things and they are all the old ways of doing things, like back in the fifties, some things in order to sustain this earth for future generations have to go back in time..not as with technology which only goes forward....(What I want to know is, how come with the latest technology it cant work out how to sustain this earth, and it is us older people who have the answers)..