Environmental support starts at home where you can properly dispose your trash, separate items from plastic bottles to cans, conserve the use of water, turn off lights when not in use, buy eco-friendly products and other simple tasks. Other than these recommended eco-friendly home assignments, you can join some activities in your community that help the environment.
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What are the different community activities that can possibly support environmental cause? You can check your local listing for any upcoming events that you can attend to. Visiting your town or region’s government offices may also provide you more information. To give you an idea of what you may be joining, here are common different activities that are organized for environmental charities and organizations.
1. Fund Raising
Many local and international groups hold fund raising events for the cause of helping the environment. This is one activity that has been practiced for so many decades. Most of them are ended successfully, because there are people, like there, who have the burden to share what the world’s environment needs. One example of an organization that mainly supports environmental issues is the Friends of the Earth Australia or FoE. They may have new fund raising activities soon that you can join into, so find out through their official website or call their local phone numbers. Like other charities, they are open for donations and consider them as funds, even if they do not organize a particular event for fund raising. You may check out some local charities that you can help with and provide some monetary support.
2. Auction
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One of the popular formal community events that are usually related to charities and support causes is auction. It may be an auction event about dresses, antiques, personal belongings of celebrities, new release of household items or electronics, and others. If you cannot financially support, you can still have option that may give you an opportunity to join an auction event. That is to donate some items that can be auctioned. There may be some items that were invented a decade or a century ago. Either way, it is fun and worth it to join such activities for a cause.
3. Marathon
Another common event for charity that helps the environment is marathon. If you can run some miles, it will be a great privilege you can take. There is also triathlon that you may be interested in. You won’t only have fun all throughout the event, but also feel good about helping a charity to help protect and preserve the environment.
4. Fashion Shows
Fashion show events for environmental cause are exciting activities you can attend to. You may buy tickets to watch a live fashion show and the proceeds may go for charity. It can be also about the dresses shown that are sold, and when you buy, you help the charity. If you have the looks to be one of the models, then you can gladly join that as well.
5. Musical Concerts
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Local singers or bands, or even the world’s renowned music artists can hold a concert for environmental cause. All tickets sold proceed to a particular charity or organizations, which main objective is to help support the environment. This is one of the easiest events that you can attend to. You will have fun watching presentations and listening to songs, while helping a charity. What is hundred dollars anyway if you can have a great time with your family or friends and other people dancing as the music is played live?
6. Contests
There are contests that you can also join into for the purpose of supporting the environment. You may be a contestant or one of the organizers. Either way, being a participant is a big contribution for such a cause. If you want to be a player, you can search for any local contests and prizes will be used as funds for a particular environment support organization. If you like to volunteer in organizing a contest event, you can also find out in your community or from nearby cities.
If you have the heart to help protect the environment from the current issues we are facing now, these are the different events that you can try attending. They are not only fun and social-related activities, but also beneficial to the world you are living in.