Tip # 16 - Shape Up - Hike to Clean

Instead of using gym machines for cardiovascular exercise, walk with a backpack and pick up any recyclable materials you find for your blue-box at home.

It's great exercise (the Israelis found walking with a weightload to be the best cardio activity during tests in the '70s), and you can help decrease pollution and increase available recycled material for manufacturing at the same time!

You can also collect discarded plastic bags (sea creatures often mistake such bags for food, and die of a resulting gastric blockage) and those notorious 6-pack rings

Tip # 14 - Be an Eco-Tourist - Travel Responsibly

Wherever you are traveling, please keep in mind that you have an impact on the environments you travel through.

Please refrain from feeding animals for the following reasons:

• Wildlife can be susceptible to human diseases. They can actually die from bacteria transferred from you, which have no ill effect on humans.
• Irregular feeding leads to an aggressive behavior towards humans and other species.
• When we feed an animal, we are actually affecting its` natural diet. Fruits, especially those containing pesticides, can upset their digestive system or cause dental problems that can lead to death.
• Feeding creates a dangerous dependency on humans that diminishes the wildlife’s survival capabilities.
• Feeding interferes with the wildlife’s natural habits and upsets the balance of their lifestyles.
• Contact with humans facilitates poaching and the trade in illegal wildlife and makes them an easy target for hunters.
• Please, help us spread the word, be an ecotourist by explaining to your fellow companions.
• Please let nature take its own course!