engaging in climate change(in my neighborhood)

There are many ways to improve our world and help fight against climate change and those things or people that are harming our earth and it starts with teamwork.Two voices are stronger than one,and even though one voice can stand out,it takes a much higher power to save our earth,and it starts with making a difference in our neighborhood.Getting together with our neighbors and trying to make a difference can really help out our environment.Some ways we can improve our ecosystem as-well as improveing the earth is by volenteer work.Our neighborhoods can get together to discuss some of the issues in climate change and how we can make this known to others and address the problems to our families and then we can take the initiatives to make the necessary adjustments to our community.We can all volenteer to help plant more trees, as-well as plants and flowers.More oxegen is always better for our environment,since there are so much daily pollutants going into the air and so much carbon dioxide emissions,we need more oxygen to breathe.We also have to be aware if we are planting them in the right places.Tree planting can be a good method for offsetting some of the carbon emmisions. Forrests can cool the planet by absorbing the greenhouse gasses during the process of photosynthesis.They can also help cool our planet by evaporating water to the atmosphere and increasing cloudiness.If we have allot of white clouds,they can reflect incoming solar radiation back to outer space.Trees also have allot of sun hitting on them first since they are so high up,and because they are dark and take allot of the sun,they can hold the heat to near the ground level.We can also volunteer in our neigghborhoods to clean up the garbages in parks and streets,and make a deal not to pollute.Polluting in parks and on streets makes our climate worse because these can travel when it rains or when the air blows it, causing most of our garbage to go to the waters like the oceans and killing some of the animals and making some we eat get sickly.Also when they collect the garbage they burn it to get rid of it and that goes into the air,polluting the air we breathe and causing the climate to get warmer.

We can try to make it one of our goals to get our wastes together from scraps of foods and bannana peels and give it to our trees and plants by making compost to make our trees more healthier and help fertilize the earth's soils.Agreeing to walk more with our neighbors and making a deal to ride more our bikes rather than taking public transportation helps us save more energy and helps us reduce carbon emmisions in the air and other pollutants that are caused by burning fossil fuels.And if we have our own cars,we can decide to use it less by walking.This saves the climate much more from getting into dangerous, real hot temperatures and helps save others and our ecosystems by us getting together as a team.We can also get together with our neighbors and discuss our ecological carbon footprints.This way we can know how much energy we are using in our homes and determine footprint reduction goals.This also helps us so we can be aware of the dangers we are doing to the earth and each discuss how we can improve our lifestyles.Having people agree to get together and clean up our neighborhoods and the garbage in the parks improves the earth and this is another plan we can make with my neighborhood.Having a harmless protest is a way to enforce these laws and help convince others and change their attitudes of the way they look at the earth next time they are going to make a choice to pollute or something of that sort.We as a neighborhood can go online and join a climate change action group.Getting together and writing down with our neighbors what we can do to affect climate change in a positive way and discussing how to improve can help change our climate for the better.

resources:



http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/planting-trees-helps-fight-global-warming-but-only-in-the-tropics.html



http://www.ecologycenter.org/climatechange/

http://www.nps.gov/climatechange/docs/SER_climatechange.pdf