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Take the ENERGY STAR Pledge to Save Energy and Help Protect the Climate

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If you're 13 or older, go to the ENERGY STAR website and sign the pledge. You can convince your family and friends to pledge, too.

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Educate Your Friends and Younger Siblings About Energy Efficiency

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You can't save the environment yourself, and an easy way to increase your earth-saving forces is to teach those around you about energy conservation. For best results have them watch Wall-E before you teach them how to keep the world from becoming covered in trash.

Visit the Team ENERGY STAR website for educational materials to present and more ways to get involved.

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Encourage Your School to Put All Computers in Energy-Saving Sleep Mode When Not in Use

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If your computer is making a noise like a rocket about to go off, then its been on too long. Your computer needs to be an energy sucking machine while you're working on your essay (and looking at funny cat pictures) but when the lab empties out, make sure you turn the computers off for the night.

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Action Tips: Include People With Disabilities

Almost 600 million people worldwide have some kind of disability, but someone can still feel isolated in his or her everyday life. Here are some tips on how to be inclusive for people with disabilities in your life:

Action Tips: Host a Drug-Free Activity

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There's pressure to drink or do drugs in high school and college. A lot of people may feel that's all there is to do in your town, suburb, or yawn-worthy neighborhood.

Prove people wrong and host drug-free activities that will give your participants a huge hit of adrenaline.

Try the extreme sports

These aren't Grandpa's favorte sports. Quicken your pulse with extreme activities like

How To: Create an Online Page that Combats Bullying

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You've heard of students trashing somebody online—creating Facebook groups or Tumblr pages that bully someone. Be the first to create a gossip site for good. If you wanna combat online bullying, here's what you need to do to create a positive online page or blog about people in your school.

How To: Lead an Activity about Lack of Water Abroad

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A typical American will use over 100 gallons of water per day, while a person living in the developing world could only have 8 gallons of water. Educate others about the lack of clean water worldwide by having people participate in the following challenge:

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How To: Make and Distribute Dog Care Guides

Once people have adopted or bought a dog, they need to know how to care for it. Help prevent animal neglect by distributing tips that will encourage proper dog rearing:

How To: Lead a Religious Tolerance Activity

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If you have a group of people of different religions (or even different denominations), lead this activity to help promote respect and understanding.

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How to: Handle a Friend or Family Member Struggling With Addiction

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Singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse's death this weekend sparked conversations about what those who loved her could have done to prevent her death. No matter how desperately they might try to control a chaotic situation, friends and family of drug addicts are ultimately incapable of achieving sobriety for the person close to them.

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