With skyrocketing gasoline prices being what they are, the hazards of global warming, and the public's concern about foreign oil, more and more automakers are offering electric, hybrid, and alternative fuel vehicles. While purchasing a green vehicle is a great start toward reducing the environmental impacts of driving. Of course, the vehicle you drive is the most important factor, but your driving habits and how well you maintain your vehicle will also impact the environment in a positive or negative way.
And while we are on the subject of saving fuel, don't forget to car pool when ever you get the opportunity and also begin cutting down your lawn every 2 weeks rather than every week. A beautiful lawn is good to have but skipping an additional week before you mow again shouldn't significantly affect it. Using a manual push lawn mower like those more commonly used many, many years ago will help to save planet Earth even more. You can still find these types of mowers in quite a few hardware stores.
Where - the best areas from which you can collect medicinal plants, are clean, off-the-beaten-track places, far from the intensely circulated roads or Polution,  Worlds most poluted contries, Root Cause of polution. Avoid areas with artificial fertilizers or areas with high-level waste.
When - between February and late November - usually, each species of plant and each part of plant (root, leaves, flowers etc) has its own period of time during which it is filled to the maximum with active substances. Generally, roots, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes of perennial or biannual plants should be collected in early spring when the first leaves appear, or in late autumn. Buds and twigs should be collected in spring when the tree pith starts to circulate. Leaves and flowers must be collected before or exactly at the moment the flowers bloom, because it is in these periods that the plants contain the maximum quantity of active substances. Fruits and seeds must be collected in late autu