How can I be environmentally friendly?

Question

All ideas are good, no matter how big or small.

Answer 1

a couple that haven't been mentioned:

1. Eat organic / locally grown foods...stops the production of more harmful chemicals, cuts down on transport costs and it's better for you as well! Also, make sure that the eggs you buy aren't from a battery farm!
2.Try going vegetarian as well...cows and cow farming is a big environmental / ethical nasty.
3. Buy ethical and fair trade goods
4. Try to break your addiction to your motor car. These beasts are the worst thing for the environment that we've ever had the misfortune to deal with!!! Try using public transport or ride places you'd normally drive to.
5. Use low energy light bulbs in your home. Consider buying high efficiency appliances (fridges etc.). Use gas to cook toast and heat water - toasters and kettles are huge consumers of power!
6. When it gets cold, put another jumper / sweater and thermal leggings on instead of switching on your heater.
7. Turn your television off at the wall at night, rather than leaving it on standby. This simple procedure can stop about 40kg. of CO2 getting into the atmosphere every year.
8. Consider buying "green" power from your energy supplier. It's not really "green" per se, but the premium you pay is used to subsidise people who are building sustainable homes and installing solar or wind generation equipment. The power so created is fed back into the main grid.
9. Go see your local politicians and question them about what they're doing in parliament to affect change. Tell them that you're worried and that their answers will shape how you vote in the next election. It's a long shot, but if you live in a country with a parliamentary system, it can be a grand way to get change happening. Look at the Green Party and the amount of effect they've had across the globe since their inception in the mid-eighties. It might not appear much, but at least we do have a choice these days! "Never underestimate the power of the individual".

Hope this helps!

Love and Light,

Jarrah

Answer 2

1. Start by using as little energy as possible.
2. Then cut way back on buying things.
3. Reduce the size of your lawn.
4. Plant native species.
5. Make a compost pile.
6. Recycle.
7. Read magazines and newspapers at the library.
8. Re-design your clothes into something new. Shop at thrift stores. Many items there still have the tags on.
9. Eat lower on the food chain and eat foods grown close to where you live.
10. Cut way back on water use.

Answer 3

I did a whole huge thing on this in geoscience. You can:
-use flourescent light bulbs
-talk to your energy provider, and you can spend just a little more money and they might b able to get you energy that is eco-friendly (solar panels, wind turnbines etc)
- put solar panels on your roof, or i hear you can buy small wind turbines for ur yard as well
- use public(train, bus) trans, and carpool, as it saves gas emissions
-drive a hybrid
-use energy star products, like fridges, tvs, comp monitors, etc
- there is more i cant think of now, hope i helped

Answer 4

if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.

Answer 5

Just by picking up trash, recycling, ride a bike places some times so you dont pollute the air, and planting tress,flowers, etc.

Theres many ways to be friendly to the earth.

p.s make mine a good one

Answer 6

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Environmentally_Friendly_Living

http://www.crazycolour.com/os/recycling_02.shtml

http://www.naturalcollection.com/natcolnew/foe.asp?from=foe.org.uk

http://www.treecycle.com/

Check out these websites. There are may suggestions! I could spend all day answering that question - good one!