How can children protect the environment?

Students represent almost all of our opportunities for improving the environment. In the future they will be the scientists and managers of industry that will correct the problems in the workplace and study methods of correcting past problems. As politicians they will be the politicians that pass good laws to ensure that industry and governments care for the environment properly. Even at the present time, while they are still young, they can convince parents to make "green" changes in the families life - buying low energy bulbs, reducing power consumption, buying more economical cars, recycling waste, etc. This kind of approach by caring kids shamed a lot of parents into stopping smoking. Walk to school or installing energy saving light bulbs are both simple but effective actions to take