Unplug your chargers.
Buy less new things: get into the habit of exchanging things, borrowing, giving away, upcycling, freecycling and making things yourself, like clothes, soap or gifts.
Buy organic and fair trade versions of the things you still need, like food and clothes.
Plant trees.
Eat less beef.
Make music.
Don't take holidays at the other end of the world, you will be surprise how beautiful your neighbouring countries are.
Read interesting environmental press, like the new scientist or the guardian, to get on the topic.
Find a permaculture farm close by. Or an urban farm if you like, just learn about how food is grown, it's fun and tasty.
Be a optimist.
Be nice to your neighbours.
Change your hobbies to ones where you don't need to buy stuff.
Get energy saving lightbulbs.
Take shorter showers.
Boil just enough water in the kettle.
Put your heating down a little in the winter and use nice wool blankets instead.
Organize a clothes swap.
Don't use so much soap, shampoo and cleaning products, unless you work with grease or fish.
Drive as little as possible. Use public transport and bicycles.
Good luck with it. It's easy.
Every living thing consumes resources and excretes wastes. It's really just a matter of scale. With most creatures, their population and abilities does not really allow them to influence what happens to the environment on a reasonable scale though as can be seen with locusts, they still can. It's really our ego that we assume that we know what state the environment should be in but because of our population and abilities, we do have a responsibility to try and minimize our impact on other species. There is no such thing as good for the environment, the environment would be just as happy being as bleak as Mars, there's only trying to keep it how we like it or trying to keep it the way we egotistically believe it should be.
So many answers for this. Very many things. I could send a huge list, but the one thing I did was become a vegetarian. Research the effects of eating meat on the environment. You would be surprised at just how much land, food, water, and air is used/wasted because of raising animals to be eaten by people!! Very interesting. It's a very tough transition, but I think it's worth it :)
Whatever you do, I thank you for being so considerate for the well-being of our planet.
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.
One can't rightly ignore one's habitat, but simply by not having to stalk, slaughter, skin, and skewer on a spit , one's supper as a daily routine, perhaps we ought to collectively inquire about the environmentality of those that serve our responsibility in this facet of being harmonious with the natural world.
I think it is a necessary step in opening on's mind to the environment to see oneslf and all humanity as natural features of earthen land and seascapes. We tend to think that what we do en masse to the environment is unnatural to start with when it is required of us to do these things...such as eat, dwell, work, rest, travel, call, dig, strip, pick, scrape, brace , and budget. To think that there is not an optimum way to go about interaction with our environs is a grievous failure of us to try to harmonize. To think there is only one right way to harmonize is utter ignorance of the many angles and limited demonstrations we have as information resource...often times we must try to see how and if we are doing the best we can, with reason, sense, taste, grace, and temper. For example , if we insist on no polution coming from our industrial efforts we may be doing a terrible injustice against the environment. If 100 people of a tradition of adapting industry to economy and efficiency are ousted from their jobs because of 10 ppb of arsenic with 1ppm copper, then the lack of pollution may destroy an entire ecosystem through econometric disonances that are a subtlety sublime... sometimes. Besides, all those broken homes, bad debts, and missed-esteem worries the sheep.
Environment protection is the best thing one can do for environment. Use the resources but keep for our followers also. Consume but over use is not fair. Save all the resources available in the environment
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Don't litter, keep your personal and public area where you are free from it.
Recycle, before you trash something, is it something that can be used for something else.
Use natural materials as much as possible
Keep a moderate way with it, so that more or less, it is still always present in some way.
There are a lot of things you can do like plant trees, recycling, proper waste (especially chemicals) disposal. These are just a few of them, nature will surely love it when do any of these, at least, at home.
Don't join large environmental groups. They're useless.
recycle. You would be surprised to see what you can recycle that you didn't think you could. Like aluminum foil.
Everyday changes that I can make to do my part in helping the environment?
Conserve and protect.
