- Wasting energy
- Littering
- Oil Spills
- Poaching (killing animals illegally)
- Air Pollution
- Water pollution (dumping in lakes)
- Toxic Waste -
- Water contamination, soil contamination.
- Noise pollution
- Smog (air pollution)
- Acid Rain (air pollution)
- Over-hunting
- Light pollution
- Fossil Fuels
- Smoking
- Wasting water, leaving the tap running
- Wasting Food
- Recycling
- Over farming
- Burning plastic (air pollution)
- Blue boxes aren't being used. Mess from Blue box?
- Poaching - illegal hunting
- Taking shortcuts to save money (eg. Sometimes companies sacrifice safety to cut costs. Makes it easier to break, like oil lines)
- Gas usage: More and more people are using gas. Car pooling?
- Convenience foods --> too much packaging = lots of waste
- Busses would help to conserve gas, pollution, etc.
- Carpooling -->pick each other up to go places
- McDonald's & Tim Hortons --> coffee cups on the ground Maybe make their stuff biodegradable
- Wasting paper
- Library vs buying books
- Forest Fires
- Deforestation (cutting down trees)
- Air pollution (eg. smoking, cars, industry, fireworks)
- Recycled backpacks? Use technology instead of paper
- Pens that break down in compost
- Composting
- Excessive Energy consumption: Video games using a HUGE amount of power to run, leaving lights on, leaving computers running, cruising Facebook forever
- Smoking -->pollution
- War, destruction, nuclear bombs
- Drive-thru's ppl leave cars running for a long time.
- Cutting down forests for city expansion
- Water pollution -->gross lakes, plastic in the ocean
- Over Fishing
This list is not inclusive of ALL problems facing our community. If you can think of others issues that you think about please leave them in the comments below!
Once you choose an issue that you want to try to help, start researching to find out more about it. Make sure to use the Research Jot Note sheet to keep track of your research. (You can find a digital version of that handout in the Resources section.)
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