Toay IAmgoing to ell you about 5 ways you can do save our enviornment .....which i read from the website WikiHow.com.Hope all of you will try it..........

How to Help Save the Environment

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Want to help save the environment? Taking steps to conserve and reuse is easier than you might think. Here's how to get started.

Saving Energy

Switch off anything that uses electricity. If you're not currently using it, turn it off. This goes for lights, televisions, computers, printers, and so on.
- Put timers on lamps that will turn off lamps at the same time on a daily basis. Timers like these can be found in hardware stores and they can be plugged into your lamp.
- Make it a routine to shut off lights and electrical appliances whenever you leave a room.
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Unplug. Leaving devices plugged in, such as laptop chargers or toasters, can eat up "phantom" energy. Even when an appliance is turned off, it may still use power. Try unplugging when possible.
- If it will be at least 36 hours before you use it again, unplug it.
- Turn lots of things off with a power strip. You can plug all your appliances in one area — say, your computer — into a power strip. Then when you're done using all appliances, simply turn the power strip off at the switch.
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Use renewable energy sources. In the USA around 71% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels. Burning coal or other fuels emits greenhouse gases and pollution in the environment. An average home powered by a coal utility will burn 12,000 pounds of coal a year and will cause about the same amount of pollution as 2 cars. By using renewable energy as the primary power source, the reduction of pollution per household would be equivalent to that of planting 400 trees.
- Many electric companies offer power from renewable sources (sometimes at a slightly higher fee). Another option is to rent solar panels, as these are becoming increasingly expensive. Contact your local energy provider for more information.
- Encourage your congressional representatives to support environmental issues and renewable energy.
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Trade in your dryer for a good old-fashioned clothesline. It makes your clothes smell nice and fresh, and, it's environmentally friendly. Tumble dryers are among the biggest energy users in most households, after the refrigerator and air conditioner. If you do use a dryer, make sure to keep the vent clear.
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Run your air conditioner sparingly or not at all. Air conditioners use a great deal of electricity. Use natural ventilation or a fan to keep cool, as much as possible. If you do use your air conditioner, set it to a higher temperature.
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Switch to compact florescent or LED light bulbs. While these cost more, they are also longer lasting than conventional light bulbs, and they use only one-quarter of the energy. Environmental LED lighting may cost more money, but last almost a lifetime and are even more efficient than CFL's.
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Get skylights. These windows go on your ceiling to provide more light, reducing the electric light you use. Some types can even transfer sunlight into electricity.
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Close doors after you leave a room. When you leave the house, or even when you have dinner downstairs, try to close the door to all the rooms you don't normally use or need. Doing this often will save a lot of excess heating or cooling that is needed to make your home warm.
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Don't use electronic exercise machines. Instead of using exercise equipment, use a real bicycle (or a unicycle), or walk on your own two feet and get somewhere. Walking and push-ups work as well.
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Load up that washing machine. If you need to do laundry, wash full loads. It saves water, electricity, and time to wash those clothes.

Saving Water

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Check for leaks.. If your faucets drip, get them fixed, or at least put a container under the drip in the meantime and use the water.
- To check your toilets, put a few drops of food coloring (go for a strong color) in the tank, not the bowl. Wait about ten minutes without flushing. If you see the dye in the bowl, repair your toilet.
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Turn off the water when you're not using it. If you're brushing your teeth, turn off the faucet between rinses. This also goes for shaving, washing dishes, and even taking a shower.
- If you tend to forget to turn it off, put a little sticky note on the wall in front of the sink, with the reminder, "Turn off the faucet. Don't waste water!"
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Avoid salt-based water softeners. These require excessive amounts of energy and water, and leave your local watershed's water quality impaired by excess salts.
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Install low-flow toilets. A low-flow toilet can save many gallons of water per year, both preserving the environment and lowering your water bill.
- Or put bottle of water in the tank (the back) of your current toilet. The space the bottle takes up in the bottom of the tank will permit you to use less water, but keep the toilet functioning.
- Also try adjusting the water level lower. Many toilets have an adjustment to lower the valve float.
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Conserve water. Take shorter showers or fill the bathtub only 1/4-1/3 full. Run your dishwasher only when it is completely full. Reuse water, if at all possible by boiling it. If you wash your own car, park it on your lawn and use buckets and sponges. Use the hose to rinse. Use pool covers to reduce evaporation and keep leaves out. Install low flow faucets or aerators.

Sustainable Transportation

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Organize a carpool for work or school. This way, if you take a highway with a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane, this can usually save time and money on gasoline.
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Plan your errands to avoid going around in circles. This will use more gas and waste time. Group outings into fewer, longer trips. This minimizes both trips out and cold starts (starting an engine that has not been run lately). Cold starts are hard on your car and the environment.
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Invest in a good bicycle and helmet. Use them when your destination is within 5-10 miles of home. You can also buy pannier racks, a bike trailer, or a sturdy basket to hold items.
- Get in the habit of riding your bike for short, local trips. Short trips are generally the hardest on your car and on the environment, and you will get more exercise and feel better.
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Get a hybrid. If you have been looking for a new vehicle, hybrids are becoming more and more popular. There are a wide variety of hybrids on the market from little sedans to big SUVs. They not only give off less emissions into the air, they can save you money with fewer trips to the gas station.

Recycling and Conserving

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Recycle all you can. In many countries, recycling is taken seriously. They have one trash can for bags, one for glass, one for cans, one for boxes, one for plastic, one for paper, even one for decomposed food. Try disciplining yourself to recycling the necessities we use when done.
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Avoid using disposable items. Anything you use only a few times and throw away consumes resources only to spend centuries in a landfill.
- Carry your own reusable cup or water bottle, eating utensils, and cloth shopping bags with you. Keep them in your car or bike panniers.
- Don't take a plastic bag if you don't need one. If you only got one or two things, you don't need a bag.
- Use rechargeable batteries instead of disposable batteries. Batteries not only take up landfill space (they can't be incinerated), they can leak acid into the Earth. Even then, only use the appliance when you must. If you have the choice, plug in the device instead of using batteries.
  - Make sure to dispose properly of any batteries you discard, including rechargable batteries that are past their usable lives.
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Avoid using plastic whenever you can. Steer clear of things like disposable plastic cups, plastic bags, and any item you don't need. It never breaks down, and has led to the poisoning and death of numerous sea creatures. Look into ways that plastic can be recycled in your area. Some cities have programs for recycling plastic bags and other difficult to recycle types of plastic.
- Use resealable, reusable containers instead of plastic wrap or plastic bags.
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Use only as much toilet paper as you need. Don't unwind a mile of it for one little wipe. Be reasonable. Go easy on the paper towels, too, and use a washable cloth or sponge for most of your kitchen cleanup.
- For the paper products you do use, look for products made from 80-100% recycled paper, preferably with a high post consumer content.
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Consider cloth diapers. They've come a long way from the things with pins and plastic covers that gen x-ers and previous generations wore. You will save a fortune (especially if you have more than one child), keep potentially dangerous chemicals away from your baby's bottom, and do a good thing for the planet while you're at it.
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Use reusable cloth pads, or a menstrual cup. It may sound strange to reuse these kinds of things, but imagine all the pads and tampons you use in your lifetime all piled up.
- If for some reason these are not options for you, consider using tampons and pads made of unbleached, organic cotton, and tampons without plastic applicators. These are better for your health as well as the planet.
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Coordinate recycling with your neighbors and friends. If the local recycling depot is at some distance, make a single drop-off spot in your neighborhood, where people can bring their recyclables, then use just one car to drive them to the depot. A garage is a good place to store things until they are taken. You might have different neighbors responsible for different kinds of recyclables, such as paper, glass, metal, etc.
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Don't waste food. The best way is to use up your leftovers and plan your meals so you buy no more than you need. If you do have an overrun, share it with friends or (if appropriate) with local wildlife.
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Buy secondhand clothes. Or if you have a neighbor with a child a year or so older than your child, ask if they can send their old clothes to you.
- You can also find many "organic clothes" at common department stores. These clothes are made with organic cotton in a more environmentally friendly factories.
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Stop your junk mail from coming. If you get several catalogs which you do not need, then call one company each day or each week and ask for them to stop sending this to you. This will save trees, and will use less energy, as something you do not need will not have to be made and transported to you. There is sometimes more paper in the local newspaper that you would use in 2 months. Remember to recycle the old newspapers, or the ones that you do not need anymore.
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Donate or share usable household items rather than sending them to a landfill.
- Join your local chapter of www.freecycle.org. These groups offer unwanted or unneeded household stuff for free to each other, usually through a Yahoo! Group. Keep your unwanted stuff out of the landfill and in the hands of someone who will actually USE it. You will make someone happy, and the earth happier too! Craigslist.org is another useful resource for buying, selling, and giving away used items locally.
- Donate your usable clothes and household items to charity. Many will send a truck for pickup.
- Use the for sale and free lists on Craigslist.
- Hold a garage sale.
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Use reusable bottles for water. Most tap water in developed countries is safe to drink, and most cities can supply a water quality report if you are concerned. Buy a glass or metal bottle and use it for a long time. It will not rot or go bad like a plastic bottle will. You could decrease the amount of water bottles in the garbage dumps if you use one glass bottle instead of 30 plastic water bottles per week. Glass bottles are also healthy.
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Turn useless junk into something fun and cute, or fresh and funky. Make jewelry, household accessories, and restyled clothing from things you already own. You can take a look around wikiHow and find tons of articles about how to make different things.
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Stop reading newspapers. If you can look up the news on your computer, it takes up less energy than cutting down the trees, making the paper, and transporting it to your house.
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Brew tea using bulk leaves rather than disposable tea bags. You can buy teas of all sorts in bulk, more affordably than buying boxes of tea bags. Then brew using a mesh strainer, filter, teapot, carafe, or french press.
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Buy or make a few reusable fabric bags. Bring them with you whenever you go shopping. Or, reuse your old plastic bags. Just imagine all of the plastic bags in the world added up.
- Recycle or reuse old plastic bags. There are a lot of things which you can do with old plastic bags. Reuse them when shopping. Check out how to recycle old plastic bags.
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Eat less meat. Meat production is highly resource intensive and inefficient. Meatless Monday is a national non-profit public health campaign that encourages people to give up meat one day a week. Attempting vegetarianism or veganism is definitely one of the best things you can do for the environment and also for your health. Check out the site for some meatless recipes.
- Ask for any leftover meat when you go to your meat shop. If the meat is OK to feed to pets, feed it to your dog or cat. They may even give it to you for free. You will also save money by not having to buy pet food. Also, at some supermarkets, they also give dog bones free with any purchase.
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Avoid fast food. Many fast food restaurants have grazing lands for beef cattle where rain forest used to be.
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Buy less stuff. If you don't need it, don't buy it. Besides saving money and not cluttering up your house, not buying things in the first place means never using the resources (materials, energy, labor) necessary to create it. Could you borrow something, get it used, or simply do without it?

Ideas for Outdoors

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Don't use pesticides, herbicides, or chemicals. Pesticides kill hundreds of birds and other animals per year. If you have unwanted weeds, pull or hoe them out yourself, clip them down, plant a ground cover in their place, or use mulch to control weeds and limit evaporation.
- If you are a gardener, check out permaculture, integrative pest management, polycropping, and other techniques that reduce or eliminate the need for chemical pesticides and fertilizer.
- If you do apply chemical fertilizer, apply no more than is really necessary, and take steps to ensure that excess is not washed into waterways.
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Plant a tree. They absorb carbon dioxide. If you can't plant one, try potted plants. Deciduous trees carefully located near your home can also help keep your home warmer in winter (when there are no leaves) and cooler in summer (when they supply plenty of shade).
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Create a frog pond in your back yard. Frog populations are dwindling because their breeding areas are disappearing. If you create a habitat for them in your back yard, they may breed there.
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Compost. Designate an area in your yard to put your yard waste, fruit peels, and uneaten food. Find some worms who can break the waste down and produce a very rich soil that works great with your landscaping. Keep your compost heap as far from a water source as possible, and if you can, put a couple layers of concrete blocks or bricks around your heap to avoid a mess on your lawn.