Hey Here in Brasil we have a program that involves collecting donated things like toys, clothes and non perishable goods giving the donated items to charities and every R$1000 a acre of trees is planted in the deforested parts of the Amazon I know you mentioned ‘other than planting trees’ but the process before it is beneficial not only to the people but also the environment overall Hope it helped
The westerlies are the prevailing winds that blow from the west to east in middle latitude between the 30 to 60 degrees.
These are found from the high pressure areas of the horse latitude towards to poles and sheer extra tropical cyclones.
Westerlie are strongest in the winter hemisphere, and at time when the pressure is lower over the poles, while its weakest in summers, there impact on the ocean currents when moving from west to east the western ocean current transports warm tropical water to the poles.