How You can Help
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
Chris Maser
The Seven Steps To Living An Environmentally Friendly Life:
First: The Common One:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It is stated constantly and is the number one thing that is easiest to do. Reduce: Lessen what you use. The average American uses 6 paper napkins per day. Do we really need that many? We have to reduce what we use, especially paper and plastic materials. Reuse: Use this again! Many products really can be used more than once. Those six napkins you use every day? You can wipe your mouth more than once on them! Recycle: Many products can be recycled, more than most people think. The common materials can be recycled, like tin, paper, and plastic, and the less common items like glass and batteries can be recycled, too. It is easy and the products can be used again and again.
Pick it Up! If you see a piece of trash on the ground, just pick it up. A large percentage of the litter we see somehow ends up on our beaches, oceans, rivers, and streams even if we don't live close to them. On another note, throw your trash away! If everyone in the world does something this simple each day, there would be so much less litter in the world.
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm
Take the quiz! The more you know, the more you can change. The average carbon released from a American is about 27 tons every year. My personal carbon footprint is 18 tons per year. This quiz determined how much carbon you release into the environment by the common ways you act. Once you find out some ways that you can make your daily routine more eco-friendly, you can try and do it! After all- you can't change something you don't know is wrong!
Ride Your Bike! If your neighborhood park is a mile from you, and you plan to drive there, try riding your bike there! This not only saves money and gives you exercise, but riding your bike also does not release carbon dioxide and hazardous fuels into the air!
Pull The Plug! This is one of the easiest of the tips. Turn off the lights if you are not in the room. Unplug the cord if you don't have to charge your phone anymore. Most of our electricity comes from harvesting oil and other fossil fuels. Using and wasting electricity releases these fossil fuels into the air, giving harmful chemicals to the air and atmosphere, poisoning our breathing air.
Give Back! All of the plants, trees, and flowers give us our precious oxygen through photosynthesis. Without them, our atmosphere would not contain enough oxygen for us to breathe. About 6 billion trees are cut down every year to make us paper and give us other materials. Rainforests are diminishing, cutting down animals' habitats. Plant a few plants or trees or even a garden. Even out the trees cut down by planting more and replenishing.
Pass It On! One of the best and most effective ways to help save the environment is to just share all of the information you already know, and other creative methods of saving the environment. Pass the information on to others! A group of people are more effective than one single person.
First: The Common One:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It is stated constantly and is the number one thing that is easiest to do. Reduce: Lessen what you use. The average American uses 6 paper napkins per day. Do we really need that many? We have to reduce what we use, especially paper and plastic materials. Reuse: Use this again! Many products really can be used more than once. Those six napkins you use every day? You can wipe your mouth more than once on them! Recycle: Many products can be recycled, more than most people think. The common materials can be recycled, like tin, paper, and plastic, and the less common items like glass and batteries can be recycled, too. It is easy and the products can be used again and again.
Pick it Up! If you see a piece of trash on the ground, just pick it up. A large percentage of the litter we see somehow ends up on our beaches, oceans, rivers, and streams even if we don't live close to them. On another note, throw your trash away! If everyone in the world does something this simple each day, there would be so much less litter in the world.
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm
Take the quiz! The more you know, the more you can change. The average carbon released from a American is about 27 tons every year. My personal carbon footprint is 18 tons per year. This quiz determined how much carbon you release into the environment by the common ways you act. Once you find out some ways that you can make your daily routine more eco-friendly, you can try and do it! After all- you can't change something you don't know is wrong!
Ride Your Bike! If your neighborhood park is a mile from you, and you plan to drive there, try riding your bike there! This not only saves money and gives you exercise, but riding your bike also does not release carbon dioxide and hazardous fuels into the air!
Pull The Plug! This is one of the easiest of the tips. Turn off the lights if you are not in the room. Unplug the cord if you don't have to charge your phone anymore. Most of our electricity comes from harvesting oil and other fossil fuels. Using and wasting electricity releases these fossil fuels into the air, giving harmful chemicals to the air and atmosphere, poisoning our breathing air.
Give Back! All of the plants, trees, and flowers give us our precious oxygen through photosynthesis. Without them, our atmosphere would not contain enough oxygen for us to breathe. About 6 billion trees are cut down every year to make us paper and give us other materials. Rainforests are diminishing, cutting down animals' habitats. Plant a few plants or trees or even a garden. Even out the trees cut down by planting more and replenishing.
Pass It On! One of the best and most effective ways to help save the environment is to just share all of the information you already know, and other creative methods of saving the environment. Pass the information on to others! A group of people are more effective than one single person.