| 1. aggregate a list of services that do free electronic and chemical waste pickup. I have to wait to get a flyer in the mail telling me someone would come by in the wee hours of the morning to do a special pickup. Would be helpful if this info were more handy. Or better, get a community running locally to do these pickups every week across the neighborhood. 2. Buy LED bulbs, environmentally friendly household cleaners, etc in bulk from china, and sell them at cost on Amazon. Don't try to make a large profit on environmentally friendly products -- just make them more affordable. 3. Gardens these days are oddly biased toward aesthetics rather than local vegetation. Gather the advice of local botanists and educate folks about what trees/flowers they should plant in their yards. Insect life is decreasing, but with the right gardens, some of it can come back. For flowers, you can arrange a service to have households place pre-orders during the winter months, and then hire a local nursery to grow saplings specifically for them to plant in spring. 4. Make a vegetarian/vegan yelp. I can't rely on yelp reviews since most folks eat meat, and their opinions on food taste/quality aren't very useful. The only reviews I can trust are those for restaurants called
"Veggie House" or some similar variant. Vegetarian food isn't a marketing strategy, its just food that can be served everywhere. 5. E-commerce site for environmentally friendly clothes. Jeans, for example, are incredibly polluting (over 1k gallons of clean water, loads of pesticides used in cotton, artificial dyes, etc). I'm not loyal to levi's, calvin klein, or whatever. Those are just the brands on the racks. Give me healthier alternatives. 6. Aggregate quality articles on environmental issues. That research paper on insect life dropping by 75% in 27 years has been making the rounds this week. There should be more of it. NASA has a ton that aren't outdated. Start off with a weekly newsletter -- I'll subscribe
If people get enough exposure to it over time, they'll start to change their minds (or tune it out, but that's always the risk) 7. Work for the government. Immigration checks at US borders rely on shitty software that goes down often. Hundreds of trucks coming in from mexico are literally waiting for hours in the heat as their cargo rots. Same with at harbors -- $Bs in food waste. |