How to Love the Environment

The environment is your life, your world--at least, it should be. The environment houses you, gives you oxygen, gives you peace. So do you find yourself just not caring about it? Do you want to? Read on to learn how to love the environment.

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Steps

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   Research the environment! You'll truly start to love it if you understand it. To research, look at organizations that protect the environment and stay up to date on green news.
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   Find out how it helps you! If you understand the environmental benefits to your life, you'll realize that it's worth loving, and saving.
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   Start being green every day.
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   Reduce. Reduce the things made everyday, plastic, paper, aluminum, etc.. Also, ride your bike everyday. That reduces the use of gas going into our earth's air. The more we can reduce, the better for the earth.
   

   • Use less water.
   • Turn of the lights when you're not in the room, or your house.
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   Reuse. If you have some cardboard, be creative and do something with it, rather than just throwing stuff out.
   

   • Reuse any water bottles you finish.
   • Scrap wood? Make a birdhouse! The birds will thank you!
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   Recycle. Don't just throw away glass bottles you're done with, or any paper cups, recycle them. If you don't, it could go to a landfill and take thousands. of years to disappear.
   

   • Don't throw away plastic, paper, glass, cardboard, and styrofoam is the worst.
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   Become active! Join green clubs around your community and donate to non-profit organizations.
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   Spend time outside. You'll appreciate the environment more if you get out to see what you strive to protect. It could also inspire you to do more green things.
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   Change your mindset. In everything you do, try to do it in a green way.
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    Be peaceful. Most environmentalists are also peace activists, because you can't love something deeply if you are immersed in anger and hate. Learn to forgive.
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    Go back to your primitive self. Be free. Don't be afraid to show off your inner self because there's only one copy of you.

SOURCE
http://www.wikihow.com/Love-the-Environment