Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection.

Its primary focus is upon

maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity.
Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as
important to protect the natural world. Those who follow the conservation ethic and,
especially, those who advocate or work toward conservation goals are
termedconservationists.

Contents
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• 1 Introduction

• 2 Terminology

• 3 Practice

• 4 See also

• 5 References

• 6 Further reading

• 7 External links

[edit]Introduction

Much attention has been given to preserving the natural characteristics of Hopetoun Falls,Australia, while
allowing access for visitors.

To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by
many groups with a wide variety of motivations.

To protect sea life from extinction due to overfishing is another commonly stated goal of
conservation — ensuring that "some will be available for our children" to continue a way of
life.

The consumer conservation ethic is sometimes expressed by the four R's: " Rethink, Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle," This social ethic primarily relates to local purchasing, moral purchasing,
the sustained, and efficient use of renewable resources, the moderation of destructive use of
finite resources, and the prevention of harm to common resources such
asair and water quality, the natural functions of a living earth, and cultural values in a built
environment.

The principal value underlying most expressions of the conservation ethic is that the natural
world has intrinsic and intangible worth along with utilitarian value — a view carried forward
by the scientific conservation movement and some of the older Romantic schools of ecology
movement.

More Utilitarian schools of conservation seek a proper valuation of local and global impacts of
human activity upon nature in their effect upon human well being, now and to our posterity.
How such values are assessed and exchanged among people determines the social, political,
and personal restraints and imperatives by which conservation is practiced. This is a view
common in the modern environmental movement.

These movements have diverged but they have deep and common roots in the conservation
movement.

In the United States of America, the year 1864 saw the publication of two books which laid the
foundation for Romantic and Utilitarian conservation traditions in America. The posthumous
publication of Henry David Thoreau's Walden established the grandeur of unspoiled nature as
a citadel to nourish the spirit of man. From George Perkins Marsh a very different book, Man
and Nature, later subtitled "The Earth as Modified by Human Action", catalogued his
observations of man exhausting and altering the land from which his sustenance derives.

[edit]Terminology

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem, it will avail

us little to solve all others.

Theodore Roosevelt[1]

In common usage, the term refers to the activity of systematically protecting natural resources
such as forests, including biological diversity. Carl F. Jordan defines the term as:[2]

biological conservation as being a philosophy of managing the environment in a manner that

does not despoil, exhaust or extinguish.

While this usage is not new, the idea of biological conservation has been applied to the
principles ofecology, biogeography, anthropology, economy and sociology to
maintain biodiversity.

The term "conservation" itself may cover the concepts such as cultural diversity, genetic
diversity and the concept of movementsenvironmental conservation, seedbank (preservation
of seeds). These are often summarized as the priority to respect diversity, especially
byGreens.

Much recent movement in conservation can be considered a resistance

to commercialism and globalization. Slow food is a consequence of rejecting these as moral
priorities, and embracing a slower and more locally focused lifestyle

Conservation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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the free dictionary.

Conservation may refer to:

 Conservation movement, to protect plants, animals and their habitats

 Conservation biology, the science of the protection and management of biodiversity

 Conservation genetics - "an interdisciplinary science that aims to apply genetic methods to the

conservation and restoration of biodiversity."

 Conservation (ethic), an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection, especially of the

natural environment

 Conservationist, a person who advocates for conservation of plants, animals and their habitats

 Energy conservation, the reduction of non-renewable energy consumption

 Habitat conservation, a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore,

habitat areas for wild plants and animals

 Water conservation, reducing the use of water to protect the environment

 Wetland conservation, protecting wetlands to conserve their ecological processes

 Wildlife management, multidisciplinary practices, including conservation of species and their

habitats

 Conservation authority (Canada)

 Marine conservation, the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas

 Soil conservation, management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s

surface or becoming chemically altered

 Conservation-restoration, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural resources

 Art conservation, protecting works of art

 Photograph conservation

 Architectural conservation

 Conservation laws, a set of laws in physics

 Conservation of energy

 Other meanings

 Conserved sequence - "similar drugs or identical sequences that may occur within nucleic acid

sequences, protein sequences, protein structures or polymeric carbohydrates."

 Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget

 Conserved name (Latin nomen conservandum), a scientific name with specific nomenclatural

protection.
 An expanding global population, rapid conversion of
critical habitat to other uses, and the spread of invasive
species to non-native habitats pose a serious threat to
the world's natural resources and to all of us who
depend on them for food, fuel, shelter and medicine.
Policies that distort markets and provide incentives for
unsustainable development intensify the problem.
Every year, there is a net loss of 22 million acres of forest area worldwide. Every year, toxic
chemicals, some capable of traveling thousands of miles from their source and lasting
decades in the environment, are released into the earth's atmosphere.

Many environmental problems respect no borders and threaten the health, prosperity and
even the national security of Americans. Pesticide contamination of food and water,
polluted air, and invasive plant and animal species can take their toll on our welfare and
economy. Twenty-five percent of prescription drugs come from rapidly-disappearing
tropical forests. When people around the globe lack access to energy, clean water, food, or
a livable environment, the economic instability and political unrest that may result can be
felt at home in the form of costly peacekeeping and humanitarian interventions or lost
markets.

Addressing these problems and achieving sustainable management of natural resources

worldwide requires the cooperation and commitment of all countries. The State
Department, through its environmental offices in the Bureau of Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs and working with other federal agencies, is seeking to
forge this cooperation and these commitments through a variety of diplomatic approaches
globally, regionally and bilaterally. These include negotiating effective science-based global
treaties and promoting their enforcement, developing international initiatives with key
countries to harness market forces to the cause of sustainable development, and creating
a foreign policy framework in which innovative public-private partnerships involving US
interests can flourish in developed and developing countries worldwide. This movement of
environmental issues into the mainstream of U.S. foreign policy has come to be known as
Environmental Diplomacy.

The Office of Environmental Policy (ENV) develops U.S. policy on environmental issues in
the areas of air pollution, toxic chemicals and pesticides, hazardous wastes and other
pollutants, and water resources. Key chemicals and pollution agreements include the
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Basel Convention on
Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, the Rotterdam Convention on Prior
Informed Consent, and the UN ECE Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Agreement.
The Office also focuses on a variety of multilateral organizations and issues such as the UN
Environment Program, the OECD Environment Policy Committee, the North American
Commission on Environmental Cooperation, trade and the environment, and the
integration of environmental considerations into the work of the World Bank and other
multilateral development banks.
The Office of Ecology and Natural Resource Conservation (ENRC) coordinates the
development of U.S. foreign policy approaches to conserving and sustainably managing the
world's ecologically and economically important ecosystems, including forests, wetlands,
drylands and coral reefs, and the species that depend on them. ENRC also leads the
formulation of policies to address international threats to biodiversity, notably land
degradation, invasive species and illegal trade, as well as issues associated with the safe
handling of living modified organisms and with access to genertic resources and the
sharing of benefits arising from subsequent resource use. The Office advances U.S.
interests on these matters in a wide variety of international organizations, institutions,
treaties and other fora within and outside the United Nations system. Among these are the
UN Forum on Forests, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the Convention to
Combat Desertification, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention of Wetlands of International
Importance, and the International Coral Reef Initiative. ENRC also oversees bilateral
agreements under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act, an innovative program of debt
reduction.

The need for conservation

‘Save your forests’

Conservation Day poster

Heaphy’s dog attacking penguins

Extinct birds

The history of conservation in New Zealand charts how people slowly realised the effects of
human activity on the environment, followed by attempts in the later 20th century to repair the
damage.

Changing meaning of ‘conservation’

The meaning of ‘conservation’ has changed over the last 150 years, and the term has been used
differently by different groups. Foresters have traditionally used it for the wise management of
forests to ensure future timber supplies, giving their chief foresters the title conservator. Until
the 1960s, conservation meant preserving natural features so that they could be used in the
future – the concept of wise husbandry, now called sustainable use.

Nature conservation

In the 1960s the term ‘nature conservation’ started to be used in New Zealand, and gradually
became the general meaning of conservation. It includes the belief that natural features should
be preserved for their inherent value, and so they can be appreciated rather than exploited by
future generations. This meaning has been formalised by an unambiguous definition in the 1987
Conservation Act:

Conservation means the preservation and protection of natural and historic resources for the purpose of
maintaining their intrinsic values, providing for their appreciation and recreational enjoyment by the public, and
safeguarding the options of future generations.

Conservation and environmentalism

‘Environmentalism’ and ‘conservation’ are often used interchangeably, but there is a distinction.
Environmentalism is concerned with all aspects of the world in which humans live – from air
pollution to the implications of nuclear power. Conservation is one aspect of environmentalism –
the protection and preservation of natural heritage, including plants, animals, and other
features such as rivers and volcanic cones.

Why New Zealand is special

Separated from the rest of the world by large oceans, New Zealand was the last major land to
be settled. Before the first people arrived, about 1250–1300 AD, the country had been isolated
for about 85 million years. A distinctive assemblage of plants and animals had evolved or made
their way across the sea. Biologist Jared Diamond calls New Zealand ‘the nearest approach to
life on another planet’. 1 It had unusual plant life, and no ground-dwelling land mammals – their
ecological niche was filled by flightless birds, as well as insects and lizards.
Giving trees the chop
When Europeans first came to New Zealand, they placed little value on the native forests. In 1894, MP
Thomas Kelly wrote: ‘The best way of dealing with the forest-covered land was to utilise it for agricultural
purposes. The forest trees if not cut down and utilised would simply rot, they arrived at a state of maturity and
then declined … the best way of using the land was to get it under grass as speedily as possible and to get the
population on it.’ 2

Human impact

First Māori and then European settlers changed the environment. Large birds were easily caught
for food, and rapidly disappeared. Much of the forest was burnt to clear the land for agriculture,
and the remaining forests were damaged by introduced browsing mammals, especially deer and
possums. Some of New Zealand’s unique animals and plants are now extinct, and others are
endangered.

Early European visitors remarked on the volume of birdsong. But forest clearance, wetland
drainage and introduced predators have decimated the bird population. Today a full bird chorus
can be heard in only a few island sanctuaries and some protected mainland sites.

Next: Māori conservation traditions

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editSteps

1. 1
Switch off anything that uses electricity. Stick to a routine of shutting off as many
electrical appliances as possible when you leave a room. If it will be at least 36 hours
before you use it again, unplug it. Even when an appliance is off, it may still use
power. Just imagine. You will save hundreds of dollars and you could donate the
money to acharity in need or buy yourself something nice.
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o Power strips are convenient devices. You can plug all your appliances
in one area - say, your computer, fax, printer, and modem; or your
toaster, blender, and coffee maker - into a power strip. Then when
you're done using all appliances, simply turn the power strip switch
from "reset" to "off".
o It is important to note that cell phone and laptop chargers, as well as
some other plug-in devices, continue to drain energy from your
electrical circuit, even when the item being charged or utilized is no
longer connected. Unplug the chargers altogether or use a power
strip.
 2. 2
Use renewable energy sources. In the USA around 71% of electricity is produced
by burning fossil fuels. Burning coal or other fuels emits green-house 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 less expensive. Contact your local energy provider for more information.

3. 3
Encourage your congressional representatives to support environmental
issues and renewable energy

4. 4

One drop per minute can add up over time.

Check your faucets and any other appliance that uses water straight from your
source. 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.

5. 5
Turn off the water when you're not using it. As Ellen Degeneres says, "Turn off
the water while brushing your teeth." Why is the water running for so long? There is
no point, is there? It is okay if you forget a few times, but if you forget a lot, put a little
sticky note on the wall in front of the sink, with the reminder, "Turn off the faucet.
Don't waste water!" This goes for shaving, washing dishes, and even taking a
shower.
 6. 6
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. If you
have hard water, use an electronic descaling device instead, such
as Scalewatcher or Small Wonder.

7. 7
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.

8. 8
Install low-flow toilets in your home, or put a brick in the reservoir (the back) of
your current toilet. The space the brick 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 down. Many toilets have an adjustment to lower the valve float.

9. 9

Be Reasonable, and care about the earth!

Use only as much toilet paper as you need, and don't use a mile of it for one
little wiping. Be reasonable. Go easy on the paper towels, too. More importantly, to
protect virgin forest from being cut down unnecessarily, use paper products made
from 80-100% recycled paper, preferably with a high post consumer content.
 10. 10
Organize a carpool for work or school. This way, if you take a highway with
a HighOccupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane, this can usually save time and money on
gasoline. For bonus points, use a hybrid or other car that gets high gas mileage.

11. 11
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.

12. 12

Your low-cost, low-emissions vehicle.

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 to local areas. Plus, you will get more
exercise and feel better!

13. 13
Avoid using disposable items as much as possible. Anything you use only a few
times and throw away consumes resources only to spend centuries in a landfill.

o You can do this by carrying your own reusable mug, eating utensils,
and cloth shopping bags with you. Keep them in your car or bike
panniers.

14. 14
Avoid using plastic whenever you can; it is a poison of the earth (things like
disposable plastic cups, plastic bags, nonsense plastic items 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.

o Use resealable, reusable containers instead of plastic wrap or plastic

bags.

15. 15
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.

16. 16
Consider cloth diapers. They've come a long way from the things with pins and
plastic covers that gen x-ers and ALL 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!

17. 17
Use reusable cloth pads, or a menstrual cup. It may sound gross to reuse these
kinds of things, but imagine all the pads and tampons you use in your lifetime all piled
up. Can you say "EW"?

o 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.

18. 18
Trade in your dryer for a good old fashioned clothesline. It makes your clothes
smell nice and fresh, and, it's environmentally friendly! If you do use a dryer, make
sure to keep the vent clear.

19. 19
 These new light bulbs look like this.
Switch to compact florescent light bulbs. While these cost more, they are also
longer lasting than conventional light bulbs, and they use only one-quarter of the
energy. They may cost more money, but last much longer.

20. 20
Coordinate 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.

21. 21
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 youwash 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. Try
installing eco-friendly faucets, such as Grohe faucets which are equipped with low-
flow fittings to reduce wasteful water consumption.

22. 22

It may look yucky, but it's a whole lot better than gasoline!
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.

23. 23
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. They are in style
nowadays.

24. 24
Stop Some of Your Junk Mail. 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 oil, 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.

25. 25

You can get a nice view of the clouds, too!

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.

26. 26
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.

27. 27
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.

o If you are a gardener, check out permaculture, integrative pest

management, polycropping, and other techniques that reduce or
eliminate the need for chemical inputs.

28. 28
Reuse glass bottles. Buy a glass 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 1 glass bottle instead of 30 plastic water bottles per week.
Glass bottles are also healthy! Plastic is not. All different types of chemicals get
released into your water from the plastic, and even more if you squeeze it!

29. 29
Turn useless junk into something fun and cute, or fresh and funky! Jewelery!
You can take a look around wikiHow and find tons of articles about how to make
different things.

30. 30
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.

31. 31
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.

32. 32
Buy or make a few reusable fabric bags, and 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. Isn't that a lot of garbage?

33. 33
Recycle old plastic bags. There are a lot of things which you can do with old plastic
bags. Don't throw them away! They will come in handy! You can reuse them when
shopping. Check out how to recycle old plastic bags.

34. 34
Ask for any leftover meat when you go to your meat shop. If the meat is OK to
feed to dogs, feed that to your dog instead. Maybe even your cat! They may even
give it to you for free. You will also save money by not having to buy dog/cat food.
Also, at some super markets, they also give dog bones free with any purchase.

35. 35
Reuse clothing, and find something snazzy to do with it. You can reinvent
wearable pieces or donate them to charity. You could use an old t-shirt as
housekeeping rags, make mop tie out of them, or sew patches onto things. Be
creative! Did you know you can make construction paper out of denim jeans?!

36. 36
Start a neighborhood clean-up that will clean up the neighborhood, every week
or so. Get the whole neighborhood involved! Try and get the community involved
with the projects, and even do a public park clean up - this is everyone's home.

37. 37
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.

38. 38
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.

39. 39
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?

40. 40
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 that is needed to make
your home warm. Something simple anyone can do:)

41. 41
Limit your shower water. Use less water when showering and don't take longer
than fifteen minutes. There are also devices there days that can limit the amount of
heated water used per shower, such as Grohe faucets, equipped with low-flow
fittings.

42. 42
Don't use too much fertilizer. Do you know what happens to all the fertilizer that is
washed off lawns and gardens? Some way or another, it ends up in a body of water.
Stop this indirect pollution! Organic fertilizer is better than chemical fertilizer. So next
time you buy fertilizer, buy organic or even make your own!

43. 43
Don't use electronic exercise machines. Instead of using treadmills and similar,
use a bicycle or a unicycle maybe. Walking and push-ups work as well.

44. 44
Plant a tree in your neighborhood or near your home; They suck up harmful
CO2 gases. If you can't plant one, try potted plants.

45. 45
When you're not too dirty, plug up the shower and use the remaining water to
clean your dog.

46. 46
Crank it up! At many electronic stores, they sell flashlights or radios powered by
cranks. They're a tad expensive, but they'll soon pay for themselves, as they don't
need batteries!

47. 47
Turn it off Buy a power strip, and plug your TV, computer, lights, etc. into it. At
night, when you're not using them, turn off the power strip, because even an
appliance that is off sucks up energy if there's nothing stopping it. Not only does it
save electricity, it shaves money off your electric bill.

48. 48
Use Canvas To Conserve. Using canvas bags help the environment because
plastic bags take hundreds of years to disintegrate. Also,using canvas bags is a very
cheap way to help out planet.

49. 49
Create a frog pond in your backyard. Frog populations are dwindling, If you create
a habitat for them in your backyard, they may breed there, which will help because
their breeding areas are disappearing.

50. 50
Eat less meat. The production of meat is one of the most significant contributors to
the most serious environmental problems, including global climate change. 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.

51. 51
Never eat fast food. Many fast food restaurants have grazing lands for beef cattle
where rain forest used to be. Not only does eating from these places cut down the
rain forest, it uses CO2 to ship the cows, or whats left of them, up in to wherever the
restaurant is.

52. 52
 Load up that washing machine If you need to do laundry, try to wash as much
clothes as possible in it. It saves water, electricity, and time to wash those clothes.
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editTips
• Try organic fresh fruits and vegetables. Generally things with the fewest
ingredients on the label are the safest bet.
• If you can't ride a bike or don't own one, try to walk to places as much as
possible, but if you need transportation, see if you can use mass transit (like a
train, bus, or subway). Since more people use them (so less people are using
cars), less fossil fuels are being released.
• Generally, don't waste anything (this does not mean eating every left-over
you find; you can pack it in containers and put it in the refrigerator or freezer).
If you know of some poor people, they could appreciate this a lot and look up
to you for it. Help your neighbors! And, if you are sure you don't want it
anymore or that your fridge/freezer is full, try putting it outside of your house,
or somewhere close to starving animals. They would be more than happy to
gobble it up. For example, bread from your breakfast that you just can't eat
anymore - break it down and leave it outside for the birds.
• Although recycling is great, it's even better to conserve. That means reusing
paper as much as possible, or refilling your water bottle instead of buying a
new one, and so on.
• If you are just getting a soda, or something else that does not require a bag
(or if you're just not going to use it), don't take one. Otherwise, use scrap
fabric to sew a 'Bag Bunny' to hold plastic bags to be reused.
• When grocery shopping, bring your own bag(s) (cloth ones are the best kind).
Some places even give slight discounts for you bringing in your own bag.
Some shops also make you pay for those plastic bags, so you'll be saving
money as well as do good deeds!
• The next time you order a beverage, bring your own mug (or buy one of
theirs). Not only will you save 15 cents, but you will also help by not wasting
cups.
• Spread the word! Start a club at school, a fund raiser, or anything else that
would help make people aware of the environment.
 • When it comes to saving the planet's water, don't be boring! You're more
likely to use something if you like it, so buy a colorful water bottle or decorate
your glass bottle with pretty glass paint!
• Ask your local Waste Management Service if you could help out. Maybe you
could make fliers and put them around town, to make people aware of the
earth. Start a day where you and the town will pick up garbage.
• If possible, drink your tap water! You'll have more cash in your pocket and
reduce the chances of a factory creating more unnecessary bottles, meaning
less energy as well as resources used up.
• If you don't have time and space for clothes that you no longer need, donate
them to charity! Every time you do, you make a lonely soul a grateful spirit, as
well as motivate others to do good!
• If you have a Facebook profile add the Greenbook application to it. The
longer you're on Facebook, the more carbon dioxide you help to reduce.
• Before you recycle something, like an aluminum can, it's best to wash it out
first. Did you know that one aluminum can can be recycled 10 times?
• Before recycling aluminum cans, take off the tabs and save them. There are
many hospitals that will accept them and use them to make medical
equipment.
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editWarnings
• Make sure that any meat that you feed to your animal is OK for them to eat.
Don't give them dangerous food that could make them sick.
• Organic food is usually more expensive than "regular food".

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• Reusable shopping bags

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• How to Create Urban Rainforests
• How to Save the Environment at Home
• How to Recycle
• How to Be an Earthy Girl
• How to Create an Eco Friendly House
• How to Purify Water
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 • How to Be Environmentally Correct
• How to Be More Green As a Teenager
• How to Become an Environmentalist
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• How to Be Environmentally Correct

editSources and Citations

• Wikia About Global Warming Topics
• eco-friendly choices helping turn good intentions into everyday actions
• StopGlobalWarming.org
• ClimateCrisis.net
• SavePhoenix.org
• Power Of One - energy efficiency website
• Information about solar panels

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