Getting Involved in Your own Community for the Greater Good
• Convince a friend or even a neighbor family to reduce their water usage.
• Ask your church or synagogue to convert to green power. Get your church to switch to renewable energy and improve their energy efficiency.
• Pick an initiative and lobby in your community. Recruiting just 500 people to recycle their newspapers every day would reduce the impact significantly.
• Support the bike lanes in every town, especially your own. As well as car pooling, mass transit, and green space, then get 50 people to commute by bike or even by bus.
• Volunteer on your community council or for an advocacy group to fight global warming. Conduct a campaign to convert 3,000 homes in your own town to changing to CFL light bulbs.
• Write letters to the editor and express your own opinion in community group meetings in support for action on climate change.
• Give away your old clothes, your household goods, and other items you don’t use to friends in need, neighbors in need and even charities. Post your unwanted goods on Free Cycle or even Craigslist.
• Organize a clothing swap with at least 10 other friends and save yourself and everyone involved some money in the long run.
• Ask your county dump to open a reuse center where you can bring items that another family could use that are in need.
• Plants trees in your community that are in need of a mother earth-touch. Start with your own yard and then venture out from there.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Turn your computer off when you are not using it. Even when in “energy saver” mode computers continue to use a lot of energy.
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