<p>Hey, Kevster. Sorry for the delay. From my English final to the last few days of school, I've been tied up. But, I'm here now, and hopefully I can be of some assistance to you. </p>
<p>Some of the ideas I had were: </p>
<p>1.)Are you interested in national organizations, such as 4H, that either have an environmental component or is solely environmentally based? Contact your local branch. </p>
<p>2.) Are you a natural-born leader? Do you not work well within the boundaries and bureaucracies of structured organization? Create your own local planting/environment group. Contact your local YMCA, school committe, or even a brunch of your friends, and an authorized mentor and organize a group of youngsters willing to clean up areas, such as vacant sandlots or run-down playgrounds, and re-plant vegetation and trees. Don't forget to have the permission of your appropriate city official or land-owner to begin. </p>
<p>3.) Do you live near an aboretum? Contact the plant-life supervisor, or whoever, to volunteer. </p>
<p>4.) Are you interested or familiar with Plant Science? If you are interest in research, you may want to contact a professor, or some academic, who specializes in Plant Science or Environment Science with a specialization in Plant Science to help in research. The good thing about environment sciences is that a lot of time your lab is nature. It's easier to jump into research, because of the openness of nature. </p>
<p>5.) Do you live learn an art museum? Does this art museum have an amateur exhibit? Are you artistic? I've seen some beautiful art that uses leaves and branches and the rest of nature's accessories to illustrate dazzling pieces. </p>
<p>6.) Start a tree-lovers' club or Environmental Club at school. One of the club's activities can be replanting neglected areas? </p>
<p>7.) Community Awareness. Contact your local library, Boys and Girls' Club, local 2nd Grade, Children's Museum to arrange an exhibit, where you can discuss horticulture and the importance of planting as either a relaxing hobby or environment-sustaining activity, etc. </p>
<p>8.) Do you like politics? Lobby. Organize or join an organization, or established group, that seeks to promote environmental-friendly lifestyle and thus environmental-friendly legislation. </p>
<p>8.) Earth Day comes around every Year, and, as far as I know, many states have events that promote Earth Day. Again, contact a group, asking to volunteer. If you're bold enough, contact your town or city official to see if you there are any events. If there are no events, coordinate your own. With enough determination, audacity, and persuasion, you can. </p>
<p>9.) Are you an activist? This is going to sound far-fetch, but you can organize a group of people to travel to New Orleans or surrounding region affected by Katrina and start replanting and cleaning up, as much as you can. Even if not Katrina areas, what about other areas affected by natural disasters where plant life may have been damaged? Hey, just an idea. </p>
<p>10.) If you're computer-savvy, start an internet group or forum for horticulture, planters, artists that use plants to express themselves. </p>
<p>11.) Grow your own garden or a mini-aboretum. If you're successful, advertize your garden or aboretum to friends, family, neighbours, classmates, teachers. Possibly, they may be impressed by your talent and want you to cultivate their land into nice landscape. </p>
<p>12.) Can you draw, photograph, paint, write? I read a book once about a bird watcher who travel the nation recording the different types of birds he saw. By the end of the book, not only did he have a vast and impressive record of seen birds, he had a great story to sure for it. Again, this may be far-fetch, but have you ever tried to classify and record all the plants you see, maybe through drawing or photographing, painting or writing. </p>
<p>13.) Have you ever had an interest in working with sick or disadvantage population? Well, contact your local hospital, nursing home or orphanage to coordinate planting activities as a type of therapy or rehabilitation. </p>
<p>14) Read, Read, Read. Read about plant life, learn your stuff. Don't say your passion is in horticulture and not know the details of your area of interest. </p>
<p>15.) I'm sure your town or city must have an official or department that supervizes the landscape and construction of your area. Contact them to volunteer or intern. </p>
<p>16.) Are you familiar with any magazines for planters, flower and nature lovers? Do you have any of them headquartered where you live? Contact them. </p>
<p>17.) Conduct your own independent research in plant science? For example, are some plants more likely to trigger asthma attacks in specific populations and why? Is there more to flower fragrances than is thought? Why are some plants considered to be herbal remedies for certain ailments?</p>
<p>18.) Any jobs that will bring you in contact with horticulture, take them. </p>
<p>19.) Take classes in Environmental Science. </p>
<p>Well, that's all for now. I hope these help. Good Luck. </p>
<p>P.S. A-san, I recieved your PM. I won't be home this weekend, starting tomorrow. So, I'll respond maybe on Sunday night but probably sometime next week.</p>