What can the U.S. do to help ensure environmental sustainability?

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This is a UNA-USA National High School Scholarship Question scholarship question.. and although this topic isnt exactly 'my cup of tea' I need a few ideas to get started....
 
1) Studies about CO2 usage in agricolture etc...

2) Hydrogen production and studies about cheap/sustainable wind/solar energy

3) Biofuels usage. They are not too costly but have a good performance...
 
One suggestion is for U.S. companies to use bamboo composite instead of wood for building. Bamboo can grow in a wide variety of conditions, so can be planted and will regrow faster than forests. This will make forests in America more sustainable, and some forests will actually extend into areas where they were once clearcut.
 
A couple of main points...
1. Make the transition from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy such as hydropower, wind power, solar power, and geothermal energy.

2. Help encourage people to depend less on animal products for food. Meat production is the #1 cause of greenhouse gas emissions such as methane and CO2 being emitted into the air.
 
please visit this site. I just learned of it a few hours ago and felt so compelled to spread the idea that I might not sleep tonight.... do the same if you care.
www.holigent.org

I truly believe that the only solution for mankind at this point is to quickly and dramatically change the way we live. we are in a race against time and the change alone will cost us the last of our resources. This site shares allot of my views. I believe that we must develop individual communities throughout the world that are self sustainable and not dependant of the mainstream social/economic/technologic/scientific/political world. we are not ALL neccessary in order to advance as a species. those who feel great passion can use the resources to further their knowledge, the rest of us can live humbly within communities that provide food, shelter, water, recreation, and basic life necessities, along with a few modest luxeries (which is about all that most citizens enjoy anyways...) and rather than contribute to the problem by requiring resources that get us to our employer who requires us to extract more resources, we can contribute to our own communities through farming, carpentry, and other simple means of survival that are community-derived rather than internationally imported/exported, so as to reserve the resources our precious earth has to offer for those able to use them for the greater cause. I am devastated at only 22 years of age that my generation is more interested in getting an iphone or the newest world of warcraft, than saving our planet and in turn, the only life we know to exist in all the universe. MARK MY WORDS: a day of reckoning WILL come, and your children may very well live in a modern day hell if we don't unite for this cause. www.holigent.org is not the only way, but I believe it is a good way
 
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