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Starting a new school is hard, especially if you are new in town. Help incoming freshmen and new students at your school by starting a mentoring program. Here's how:

Brainstorm

Get a committee together and create an outline for what the program will look like. Use our example as a starting point.

Can you imagine a world without panda bears or tigers? Well, that can become a reality if we don't do anything to stop it. Help encourage species from becoming threatened and endangered by conserving natural resources that are readily available in your yard and in the yards of others. 

Mow less often

Keeping your lawn tall allows the grass to retain more water and shades the soil from the brutal sun.

Water wisely

You want your lawn to be hydrated, but you don’t want to drown it. Limit watering to three times a week (less if rain is in the forecast).

People like to chow down at the mall or in the park, and that waste usually gets trashed incorrectly. Start a recycling program at a popular hangout in the following ways:

Follow these 11 tips and help an animal leave a shelter alive and loved.

Puppy mills are large commercial breeding facilities where living conditions for animals are inhumane. Think of it like a factory for animals: dogs are a product made for profit. They are kept in small cages their entire lives in unsanitary conditions without attention, let alone love, and are bred as often as possible. Not surprisingly, this can lead to tons of health problems.

Motor vehicle crashes remain the number one cause of death among young people ages 15-20. You can help by starting a designated driver program at your school. Here's how:

The puppies and kittens in pet store windows are super cute right? Well, for most shops those animals come from puppy mills. The living conditions are inhumane and abusive, but how do you know if a breeder is responsible?

You don’t have to be an animal expert to help out at your community’s shelter. You just need to have the time and desire to lend a helping hand. (And it doesn’t have to be a lot of time, either.) Here are a few ideas on how you can help!

1. Teach a class

Teaching shelter dogs to sit, stay, walk calmly on a leash or shake paws will make them infinitely more adoptable. The Humane Society and SPCA of Austin, TX, for example, have a team of volunteers who spend their time playing with puppies and taking adolescent dogs to obedience classes.

You probably know all about how to green up your home and even your school, but do you know how to make your pet an environmentalist? Check out these ideas:

Spring Cleaning

When your parents make you clean out your house, call your local shelters and ask if they need old towels, bedding, leashes, litter boxes and pet toys. They may even be looking for unused printers and computer monitors.

Water Works

Give your pet filtered tap water instead of bottled to drink. And if you have to use bottled, be sure to recycle.

Spreading awareness about the importance of music education is as easy as "Do-Re-Mi."  Use your already existing music skills to give free lessons to people in your community.