What some things could you do to improve the lives of others?

Here are some ideas...

1. If you have children, stop smoking around them.
2. Support a grass-roots cause in your neighborhood.
3. Vote in all local and national elections
4. If possible, alternate car usage with public transit or walking and biking
5. Give up your seat on the train to an injured or elderly person
6. When on vacation spend a few hours or days donating your time to a local cause.
7. Learn about another country or language. Share what you have learned with friends, and if possible visit there, spending money as locally as possible.
8. If facilities in your area allow, try to recycle your household trash.
9. Travel in off-peak times.
10. When hiking on trails do not take shortcuts. Such behavior erodes the soil and inclreases costs for land maintenance.
11. Do not build fires while camping abouve 4,500 feet. There is not enough fuel to fetilize the soil if humans burn it all.
12. Lose some weight.
13. Plant shade trees in your yard. grass is a very inefficient user of water. Oaks or Tulip trees provide good shade as saplings.
14. Use recycled tire rubber when resurfacing your driveway or sidewalk. Certainly softer and possibly cheaper than hiring an ashpalt contractor.
15. Lobby your state to create a bottle deposit law, if it does not already have one. Aluminum cans require lots of energy and fuels to produce.
16. Try to get to know your neighbors.
17. If you must own a gun, keep it unloaded and locked securely.
18. Use barbless hooks when fishing catch and release species.