Here are some ideas for Green assistance Projects:
1. Energy Audit. Use of electricity and gas is a large driver of greenhouse gas and cost. There are many good Energy audit forms ready on the internet. Download some, modify for your needs and audit the school and other large businesses. Make definite recommendations to sell out usage with sensors, timers, ballst, light bulbs, insulation and other methods. reconsider volunteering to do audits for older folks in your community and try to get funds from the community or sponsors to help them sell out their Energy usage.
2. Compost. Large portions of landfill garbage can be composted. Start one at home and then work with institutional and cafeteria kitchens to found compost processes and recipients. reconsider selling compost to gardeners. part the number of compost generated in a week and extrapolate to show the each year impact per house or per school/institution.
3. Plastic Bottle Recycling. Many millions of soda bottles are landfilled each year. Many schools still sell drinks in plastic bottles. reconsider construction or obtaining plastics-only recycling packaging and contacting your community recycling center to dispose for pickup. Don't forget the concession stands and other outdoor areas. part and present the number of bottles saved and show some items made from the bottles.
4. Compact Flourescent Drive. Work with a local hardware or branch store to offer special sales on Compact fluorescent bulbs and sell them as a fund-raiser. The recipients get a deal on the bulbs and reserve a good cause, and they will save Energy for them. Make some conservative calculations of the dollar and electricity savings from each kit sold, and show it as a graph or thermometer.
5. Metals recycling in the kitchen. Many cafeterias use large cans for food. Put a bin to get rinsed cans and whether recycle them or use them for planting in other projects. The metal has good recycle value.
6. Plant Trees. You can whether sprout your own seedlings or caress a nursery to see if they can get and donate them. caress landowners for permission to replant, and suspect and show the carbon offset you will generate in the next 1,10,20 years from your planted trees. Get lots of others to participate in an event, perhaps on Earth Day or Arbor Day.
7. Urban Recovery. If there are areas in your town or city that are abandoned and unused, do some investigate to find the owners and settle if it can whether be cleaned up, torn down or made into a park or green space. Do some community organizing and make a large project to generate a playground or other space that the community will appreciate.
8. School Carpool Club. Many teens drive to school. Try to found them into groups so that they can share rides with each other and save some gas and emissions. Do the math on the median car, miles to school, mileage and the monthly pocket impact to each learner that drives if they carpool 1 day/week.
9. Computer Recycling Drive. Make caress with a firm that recycles old computer equipment, investigate that their habit is environmentally get and protects the old user's data, and found a drive to get old machines. You may also be able to cobble together a few machines that you can reformat and load Linux and free, open-source programs to donate to neighborhood clubs, churches, homeless shelters and similar areas.
10. Environmental Awareness Education. Put together a slide show and some fun experiments for elementary-age kids and do a road show in your school district. Keep the ideas clear and get the kids excited about what they can do to save the earth.
11. Green Rooftop. A flat roof covered with plants will lower heating and cooling losses and will better use rainwater. investigate "Green Roof" and found and contend one at a school, nursing home or other similar operation.
12. sell out Garbage Toxicity. investigate and understand which items are hazardous in household and institutional/industrial waste streams. furnish guides, hold informative sessions, and provide means for people to detach and get these toxic items instead of discarding in their garbage.
13. Cell Phone and Battery Collection. A subset of the tip above, cell phones can be collected and repurposed to emergency shelters and other uses with no impact to the primary owner. Batteries can be collected and returned to a center that can recycle the components.
14. Make A Wild Space. Take a part of the school or other grassy area that is currently mowed and treated, and make a wildflower or other planted space that requires less water, chemicals and care, and is beneficial to local or migratory animals. Add a bench and walkway and you have created a organery sanctuary! A local organery center may donate or sponsor the park in replacement for some signage or other consideration or recognition.
15. furnish Some Produce. Build a community garden, perhaps at a nursing home or community building. Involve others and set up a community buildings that will care for the organery when your project is completed. participate in the care and harvest of the bounty. reconsider donating some of the furnish to the food bank or shelters, where fresh food is rare and always appreciated. reconsider planting and maintaining an orchard where peaches, apples, pears and other fruits will grow for years to come. Large cans (see #5) and buckets can be used to grow plants in urban settings.
16. generate or contend a Hiking Trail. If you have green space nearby, reconsider trying to found a social trail. Landowners may be willing to reserve this operation if there is also financial and/or reserve from the local government. You may have to do more political and financial organizing than actual hoe and shovel work up front, but the resulting peaceful trail will be a great testimony to your dedication and effort.
17. Plastic-Free Dining. Take a witness of the garbage created in your school cafeteria. Try to find ways to sell out the environmental impact (carbon cost, weight, decomposability, etc.) See if you can transform plastic items to paper or metal that can be whether reused or renewed without fossil fuels. Work with the procurement group to get the new items at lower cost, and settle if the total "life cycle cost" of dishes and silverware is lower than plastic.
18. Mileage Audits. found an audit tool to help people maximize their auto mileage. From tire pressure to weight allowance and driving habit changes, you can make a good guide for people to use. Set up an event, perhaps in concert with a car show or car wash, to achieve mileage audits for people, pump their tires and give them a guide to keep in their car. Do a before/after road test on a few cars to get some hard data.
19. Solar Rooftop. get funding and/or supplies to setup a pilot solar cell on a rooftop. connect it to a unique object inside the school such as a spirited sculpture, fountain or light display, or light a hallway. suspect the cost of performance vs the Energy cost saved and make a suggestion to the school for larger scale implementation.
20. Green Careers Research. Do some jobs investigate on the top 20-30 careers that impact Green. found a list of degrees and skills which would be needed for these jobs, along with projections of the increase and the economic and geographic locations of the jobs. Work with the advice conselor to issue this and make ready to students as they make decisions about careers. reconsider construction a slide show or video composite of spirited jobs in Renewable Energy and other areas.
Hopefully this has given you some ideas on good assistance projects that will have a definite impact on our environment. Have fun and stay green!
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