ecotopics
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- Reducing Personal and Business Junk Mail
- Pack a Waste-Free Lunch
- Online Fair Trade Shops
- Calendar of Global Environmental Events
- Current Environmental Issues and News
- Tips for Green Hotels
- Information on Biodiesel
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Environmental Tips for Individuals: Out in Nature
Separate page: Sustainable Solutions for Getting Around Town
Out in Nature
- Trash: When you are out hiking, pick up trash along the way.
- Hiking Tips: Leave No Trace, Outdoor Ethics - provides tips for campers, climbers, and hikers.
- Restoration: Organize a community group to clean up a local stream, highway, park, or beach. For opportunities to do restoration work for a local organization, check out VolunteerMatch.
- Tree-Planting: Form a tree-planting group with family and/or friends: commit to planting and maintaining an agreed-upon number of trees over your life times. Plan regular gatherings for tree-planting and watering. Log your commitments in the United Nations Billion Tree Campaign.
- Parks: Visit and help support local parks. In the U.S., reserve a campsite at a National Park through the U.S. National Park Service Reservation Center or Reserve America (includes some state parks).
- Frogs: In the USA, help to track frog and toad populations through Frogwatch USA.
- Birds: In North America, help to track bird populations through Citizen Science.
- Balloons: Never release balloons outdoors. They frequently find their way to open water (even from 100's of miles away) and can harm or kill turtles, whales, and other marine mammals.
- Stargazing: Stargazing schedule - provides current information about stargazing events.
- Educational Sites:
- Animals: Animal Diversity Web and Wild Sound Stories
- Biology: The Biology Project
- Marine Biology: OceanLink
- Birds: Peterson's Perspective and Introduction to the Aves
- Microbes: The Microbe Zoo
- Astronomy: Nine Planets Solar System Tour
- WWF Fun and Games
- Environmental Kids Club
- For Teachers: Environmental Education Resources and Environmental Defense's Teacher's Guide
- Books: Books on nature education
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