ways to reduce your impact

For your own feeling of satisfaction, as well as the environment s approval, pick up litter and dispose of it properly. Who knows, maybe if you pick up litter candid camera will pay you $50. (I saw an episode where they did that)

Teach your acquaintances about environmental friendly ways. Make sure they fix their mistakes if you see them litter, or if they don t recycle. Tell them the impact that they can make by simple changes, and ways to help the environment. Encourage them to share the same tips to their acquaintances.

Join an environmental friendly club, such as Habitat for Humanity, or your school s Earth Club. Sign up for your area s Freecycle, which organizes people in your area, and they trade items that they have no use for, but others do. It limits the amount of waste that people produce from home devices, furniture, electronics, etc.

If you care a lot about the environment, vote YES in your community s environment votes. Encourage others to do the same. Support local, state, as well as national voting junctures that are about helping the environment.

If you have an opinion on an issue in your community...contact your local representative. They have lots of power over your community, and voice your opinions to them.

Do you not have curbside recycling? Lobby for it in your community. Recycling is one of the single most important duties of a community, and if your community does not have it, encourage a program to do so.

You can t spread information if you do not know it. Research renewable energy sources in your library, read books about solar, wind, geothermal, and all forms of energy. Your local library is bound to have numerous articles, magazines, and books on suggested topics about environmental sciences.

Upgrade your current computer, instead of going all out and purchasing a completely new one. Load it with new software and anti virus, graphic cards, and sound cards, and you are on your way. However, this should be used for the computer savvy people. Unless you want to take your computer to a shop and have them upgrade it for you. It will be less expensive than having to purchase a whole new system. Including a monitor and mouse and keyboard.

Try to use your email as often as possible, and reduce the amount of snail mail you use. Letters which are already on the computer should be sent via email, rather than printing them out and sending them. Obviously it reduces the amount of paper, and the amount of mail that your mail carrier has to carry.

Instead of using pencils that are used in a week to two weeks, use a mechanical pencil. Thats way, you can refill your mechanical pencils, and not have to continually waste wooden pencils.