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The simple things - recycling..

Okay so it's dull, it's a chore. But it's green (:

make something new that you need out of an old thing, or borrow it from someone else instead of buying it

this is a creative active way of making a new thing instead of passively buying it.

Household waste management (sorting of waste for reuse and recycling)

- Reduction in diseases emerging from poor waste management in my community - Reducing chocking of the soils from plastics - Reduced contamination of protected wells where many of our people collect water for domestic use

Consume less, Reduce Waste and enjoy your life

Global warming is the most serious environmental challenge of our time. It is more urgent and its dangers are more fundamental than most of us realize. One of the main reason behind global warming is waste. Waste is mainly due to our wild over-consumption: we consume stuff we have and stuff we dont need. That's way I'm focusing my whole action this year on one simple theme: Reduce waste. My climate plan/campaign seeks to educate myself, my kids and all people i can reach about how quickly we must act. We have an obligation to be responsible stewards for... Read more

Million Agents for Change Campaign

I'd like to let as many people know about our Leaders for a Conscious World event on November 2nd. The website is www.leadersforaconsciousworld.com. We will be training over 100,000 individuals via global broadcast to become conscious leaders in their communities and in the world. If you have any interest in forwarding an invitation to the broadcast to your network, please let me know. Our goal is to reach one million people this year with these amazing, life-changing tools.

Promoting Local Economy

Promoting local economy is the third in Gandhi's Trinity; I have recently taken a huge step: I gave up (renounced, a key principle of Gandhi) my habit of buying imported beer and wine; on my quest to buy local I surprised myself to find beer and wine, locally produced, that are exceptionally good; this really took a shift in attitude, but did not require me to sacrifice quality; why have I been resisting this for so long?

Household waste management (sorting of waste for reuse and recycling)

- Reduction in diseases emerging from poor waste management in my community - Reducing chocking of the soils from plastics - Reduced contamination of protected wells where many of our people collect water for domestic use

I refuse to participate to a destructive system in every mean I can and I work on concrete proposal to improve our energy system.

First it makes me feel modestly peaceful. And maybe it could inspire others.

Car Sharing

Suggesting that work colleagues car share on their journeys to and from work. This would less to less carbon emissions, less cars on the road and more interactions between people.

Working on strategies for Environment Care efforts involving local people.

Environmental concerns need awareness and getting young minds to those little minds and directing them towards environmental conservation by deploying them towards creative activities.

Walk more

Get fitter and take some fresh air.

Lie still and breathe sparingly

Means you don't consume much and don't use too much oxygen

Lie still and breathe sparingly

Means you don't consume much and don't use too much oxygen

Hoan Kiem Lake

Reduce my water usage

We are depleting our fresh water at an alarming rate. In the west the average person uses around 466 litres daily! I've just worked mine out using this water calculator (http://www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html - its American so works it out in gallons go to converter to find out litres) and its 355.8 litres for my household (of two) per day! We are reducing our flushing by half, ensuring we only do one full load wash per week, and alternating shower days - people are too clean these days anyway!

Wash Your Car On The Grass Or At A Car Wash

Soap and dirt from washing your car can flow into storm drains and into lakes and rivers, making them polluted and harmful to animals. If you wash your car on the grass the ground can filter the water naturally. Better yet, take it to a car wash! Car washes can recycle and/or treat the water,and they use way less water than the average home car wash.

Shower to toilet, why losing so much water?

Every shower corresponds to 80 litres in average and 8 for flushing the toilet. Knowing we flush 35 times/week the toilet, this corresponds to 240 litres: By using the shower's water for the toilet, we would save around 240 litres per person per week... by couple of billion people, this can make a huge difference!

Investment in rainforest preservation

To stop rainforest destruction we have to provide financial incentives to those that live there. By investing personally in projects which provide sustainable alternatives we can have a direct impact on arresting deforestation and improving the welfare of smoe of the poorest communities on the planet - see www.cochabamba.coop

Humanure vermicomposting

Ecological sanitation (REAL ecosan---waterless/dry) closes material cycles closest to their point of origin. Low entropy. Eliminates water pollution by human & livestock manure and returns its nutrients to the land. Begin installing ecological sanitation in the Minority World/North as the example for the Majority World/South to follow. Not, as we are now doing, vice versa! Clean up our own act before we preach to others.

Avoid using food and cosmetics containing Palm Oil.

Palm oil is an ingredient in many everyday items such as margarine, chocolate, chips and shampoo. However to satisfy this demand, large areas of rainforest are cut down or peatlands burned to make way for Palm plantations. This leads to a loss of biodiversity and increase of CO2 emissions. Try to use products which don't contain palm oil, or use it in a sustainable way.

Avoid using food and cosmetics containing Palm Oil.

Palm oil is an ingredient in many everyday items such as margarine, chocolate, chips and shampoo. However to satisfy this demand, large areas of rainforest are cut down or peatlands burned to make way for Palm plantations. This leads to a loss of biodiversity and increase of CO2 emissions. Try to use products which don't contain palm oil, or use it in a sustainable way.

Avoid using food and cosmetics containing Palm Oil.

Palm oil is an ingredient in many everyday items such as margarine, chocolate, chips and shampoo. However to satisfy this demand, large areas of rainforest are cut down or peatlands burned to make way for Palm plantations. This leads to a loss of biodiversity and increase of CO2 emissions. Try to use products which don't contain palm oil, or use it in a sustainable way.

Avoid using food and cosmetics containing Palm Oil.

Palm oil is an ingredient in many everyday items such as margarine, chocolate, chips and shampoo. However to satisfy this demand, large areas of rainforest are cut down or peatlands burned to make way for Palm plantations. This leads to a loss of biodiversity and increase of CO2 emissions. Try to use products which don't contain palm oil, or use it in a sustainable way.

Create a four part holistic, self-sustainable ecological living system Create a web site as a means of raising awareness and education Create a business in which interested parties can come to kabook-i for advice on building a self sustainable lifestyle

By taking personal responsibility for our actions and leading a self-sustainable lifestyle we actually give back to planet earth and can maintain a symbiotic relationship with mother earth into infinity.

Choose to be a pilgrim not a tourist

"Pilgrims treat the planet with reverence and gratitude. Tourists value the Earth and all her natural riches only in terms of usefulness to themselves. Pilgrims perceive the planet as sacred and recognise the intrinsic value of all life. The living Earth is good in itself with all its grace and beauty" Satsh Kumar.

Decentralization of Energy supplies

This would hugely reduce the amount wasted in energy terms produced by the current highly inefficient system of power centalization. 2/3 of all energy prodcued by central power stations is lost through heat and transmission.

Join the 10:10 Campaign and reduce my carbon emissions

For my New Year resolution I will aim to reduce my emissions by at least 10% in order to contirbute towards the fight against climate change. Join me and join 10:10!

Hitchhiker's freedom for the future of the planet

Let's make hitchhiking legal and care about the planet? why all cars aren't full? why all buses aren't full? Lift sharing would save our future planet.

Financial Fools' Day April 1st-2nd

We will demand that the banks are brought back under our control and end their destructive funding of climate catastrophe.

Climate Change Solution Catalyst

For those of us who are not yet obviously affected by climate change it is easy to ignore it. Those that choose not to ignore it write books or articles like this one in an attempt to muster support but there is an underlying problem. How does a little person, such as me for instance, actually MAKE a contribution to correct something as big as climate change ? What can I actually DO ? I can almost hear the wails of “insulate”, “drive less” etc. etc. but look around and you’ll probably find you’re the only one doing all the... Read more

Climate Rush Activist

"Well behaved women seldom made history!"

Climate Change Solution Catalyst

For those of us who are not yet obviously affected by climate change it is easy to ignore it. Those that choose not to ignore it write books or articles like this one in an attempt to muster support but there is an underlying problem. How does a little person, such as me for instance, actually MAKE a contribution to correct something as big as climate change ? What can I actually DO ? I can almost hear the wails of “insulate”, “drive less” etc. etc. but look around and you’ll probably find you’re the only one doing all the... Read more

Raising animal abuse awareness in Cyprus

Protection of abused animals

Stop consuming products derived from animals; a vegetarian saves more than 100 animals a year from abuse.

“The best thing anyone can do to save the largest amount of animals is to stop consuming products derived from animals." You don't have to become vegetarian buy freedom food products.

Raising animal abuse awareness in Cyprus

Protection of abused animals

Gardens

If we all grew our own food, even in cities we would have better finances, better health cleaner air. We need to plant back yard gardens it is not hard, no matter where you live. Even in cities one can have a raised bed of produce or join community gardens, plant and share, plant and trade. Plant for others that can't, trade food for other services. I am growing my garden now and i share my bounty with neighbors.

Stop the excessive packaging!

Food is sometimes packaged in ridiculous amounts of plastic and foil and cardboard. Why? Surely it would be cheaper for manufacturers and better for the planet if goods came packaged in the very minimum of packaging?

Weekly Menu

I'm surprised at the large number of friends who shop more than once a week. Because we live miles out in the country, we try to drive into the nearest town as infrequently as possible. The key for us, to minimising journeys, is the weekly menu. That way we buy all we need once a week - and cut down on food waste as well as greenhouse emissions.

Sustainable eating - through having two meat-free days per week and only buying fish which has been caught sustainably

Global fish stocks are under serious threat. There are many reasons for this, over-consumption, pollution, climate change... many of the problems feel far above our individual capabilities to undo, however there is a way to make a difference! To gain further inspiration watch: The Big Fish Fight on Channel 4 and visit http://www.fishfight.net/ for more information.

Grow my own

The knowledge of how our food is grown, where it comes from and what goes into it is largely disconnected from the minds of the general public as they walk around Tesco’s. I heard recently a vox pop in which a child was asked where cheese came from, and to my everlasting amusement answered; moles mine it! This basic function of our everyday lives should be understood by everyone from childhood; especially in this food impoverished world.

Fishy Business

There is so much each of us can do to make a difference and participate in our very own Big Fish fight. I have found some fantastic links to support sustainable fish consumption which allows every one of us to contribute to a more sustainable, ethical and desirable World. Join me as I order my very own 'Free Fish Guide' from Greenpeace(http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/oceans/forms/order-your-free-fish-guide-0), e-mail Princes to make them change their unsustainable tuna practices (http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/fishfight,)and see how I can use my purchasing power for the good by looking at these top ten tips on buying sustainable fish (http://www.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/change_how_you_live/top_ten_tips_for_buying_good_seafood.cfm)... Read more

Reduce my meat intake.

Cut down on my carbon footprint.

solve hunger

My idea allows a large amount of food to be grown in a small space using concrete grow boxes. These you make yourself. For about ten dollars you can make a grow box that can hold about 130 vegetables and only takes up about 4 feet of floor space. My website tells you how to make them yourself. www.concretegrowbox.com

Fishy Business

There is so much each of us can do to make a difference and participate in our very own Big Fish fight. I have found some fantastic links to support sustainable fish consumption which allows every one of us to contribute to a more sustainable, ethical and desirable World. Join me as I order my very own 'Free Fish Guide' from Greenpeace(http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/oceans/forms/order-your-free-fish-guide-0), e-mail Princes to make them change their unsustainable tuna practices (http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/fishfight,)and see how I can use my purchasing power for the good by looking at these top ten tips on buying sustainable fish (http://www.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/change_how_you_live/top_ten_tips_for_buying_good_seafood.cfm)... Read more

get cancer linked pesticides of our food and out of parks

we need to reduce toxic chemicals in the environment and promote biodiversity and community food growing and playing - this means we need all the health hazardous chemicals out of our parks and food take action -http://www.pesticidescancer.eu/spip.php?article45