how do i help the enviroment more?

Question

We use eco friendly cleaning project, i always turn off the light when i leave the room, buy as much organic food as possible, recycle, use the stairs instead of the lift in our flat.

How else can I help?

Answer 1

Go hug a tree.

Answer 2

This is a nice question. Ok, you have the inside of your home eco friendly, how about the outside of the home? Dark colored rooftops add more heat in the home, because dark holds heat fed by the sun. If your driveway is paved with black asphalt, to prevent pollution of the air and more heat building over the driveway, replace the asphalt with a light colored surface. There are many to choose from, i.e: light colored gravel rolled into a clay soil is practically maintenance free, instead of black use cement and if possible cover the driveway with grass and only have tire tracks to follow in and out of the driveway. Black asphalt has poor emission and low reflectivity that can raise the air temperature as much as 60 degrees F depending on the size of the surface. A smaller black covered area can raise the air temperature on average of 35 degrees F. Whatever the size they contribute to using more electricity to cool inside of buildings and the air becomes unhealthy that effects people with respiratory problems. Plant trees and shrubs wherever possible, because they will help cool the air and absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen.

Answer 3

Help build the machines I wrote Al Gore and asked for his help with:

Putting the technology together to start cleaning up and reintroducing new ozone to the atmosphere is possible. The cost and size of this project means taking a long term commitment. I am proposing the biggest cleanup in history. Al, I do not see any proposal that is realistic or proven at any cost, not even Washington can solve this problem. But if every person on earth does his or her share, we may be ok. Never-the-less, I see governments acting like a deer in a car’s headlights and people doing the same thing. The inevitable is almost upon us. Cleanup and change is the only option.
The first cleanup machine starts with a ten billion dollars investment. Ten year later with twenty-five machines operating, these machines will produce enough ozone to replace both holes at the poles. But more importantly, these machines will remove chemicals that deplete the ozone. Beyond making ozone, decreasing the poisons that deplete ozone, these machines reduce the major greenhouse gases and unbelievably we can have all this for fewer than one hundred billion dollars.
Beyond cleaning up our atmospheric mess as I am suggesting, we humans must do a better job reducing or cleaning up carbon monoxide, collecting and storing methane and ethane for fuel, burning less of everything, cleaning up our forests and using more solar insolation. Solar steam electric generators are the type of systems we need and are 90 percent efficient and near 100 percent if heat recovery is used. I believe nearly 30,000 MW are needed in the USA and Mexico over the next 30 years. This opens the door to new electric cars, new construction vital to our way of life, new bullet trains, and these industries produce new high paying jobs. From small scale solar generators on malls, to 2000 acre collector sights, these systems are viable and ready for production. The Federal Government must give up some land, money and have less regulation to help save the planet from disaster.
Al, spreading the message that we can help ourselves is a key to the development of these businesses. Washington can help: the businesses need grants, patents, land and regulations. Congress must create a pollution surcharge. From gas, coal, diesel, wood to cooling towers, from cattle, other ranches to cigarettes, from agriculture burning to airplane passengers, this surcharge can fund parts of these projects and many stationary pollution control devices in general.
Your personal support is very important to getting the atmosphere cleanup started and developing sights for solar generators.

Sincerely,

Answer 4

I don't know if you are looking for group involvement or to help on a personal level. In terms of groups I would suggest joining groups like Greenpeace or wildlife foundations to help preserve what we DO have.
On a personal level it all comes down to what you do on a daily basis. Try challening yourself (and if you live with other people, your household). Set goals. Eg. only one garbage bag every "x" number of days. Critically think about the things you do on a daily basis. For example if you buy something from a store don't ask for a bag or packaging. Little things like that add up and if everyone actually did it, there would a huge difference. Think about your daily taks and try to make each one more eco-friendly. I don't know what you do on a daily basis to give any personalized suggestions.

Answer 5

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 6

By thinking less about it. The lift is there to use. Not using it only forces you to climb stairs. Not using it saves nothing at all. Organic simply means plants are grown in horse manure. Mmmmmm~yummy?

Answer 7

Recycle everything,food should be scraped off plate,into seperate bags,then by paper,cans,plastics,ect.

Don't cut down trees,plant as many as possible.

Conserve water,by only watering plants twice weekly

Don't use pesticides,they drain into our water supply and carry out to oceans,lakes,and rivers and pollute everything

Have pets (indoor cats with litter box,small animals {guinea pigs,rabbits,hamsters,rats,ect.}) then use bedding that can be dumped outside,burried,or recycled.

Take shorter showers,for every 1 min. your in the shower,7 gallons of water are washed down the drain!!!!Taking a 10min shower,you have just wasted 70 gallons of water.


Doing the simplest of things can help the enviornment,so im glad to see people like you who care.Hope I helped alot and get best answer.

Good luck trying to help out!

Answer 8

Stop driving.....Stop eating....stop everything, everything you do as a human in the west is going to effect the enviroment.....things will change, and we are all to scared, wether we burn fosil fuels, or we use re-usable energies the earth will heat up, the earth will go into an ice age, billions of people will die in a short space of time...and in 10,000 years, when the ice sheets roll back, and the climate re builds again, we, as a human race, can sit back and become more linked to our enviroment.....its a cycle, we can never change it, im just affraid that we have brought it on just a little to early, bout 15,000 years...oh well....lets enjoy ourselfs while we are still here.....take care human.....

Answer 9

Go to your local authorities and demand that every new residential development set aside land that would serve as both a neighborhood park and a location for a large wind electric power generator that would serve that new neighborhood's power needs.

Answer 10

It's all a myth ... don't be suckered in by Governments who frighten you with all this rubbish. It's only to avoid industry in the Third World competing with the West

Answer 11

turn of all non essential electric goods,10% of the average homes energy is wasted this way,im to tired for maths but multiply that 10% by the ammount of homes in the uk and you have one huge carbon footprint