Mine probably has to be mountain biking. I just love riding through the forest, sometimes catching some air time and swallowing the occasional fly whilst going downhill at 30km/h.
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In Australia, one can volunteer time to restoration through local government or catchment groups. They supply everything and you just do a couple hours once a month.
While ideally, it would be nice to see people get paid for work like that as time is valuable, it's something at least. Usually the groups are filled with retirees so the labour isn't efficient. It's quite a perplexing situation, how do you get people out there? They have to want to do it. I often, as per the permaculture ethic of fair share, offer amounts of native plants for free to help someone get started with a project and no one ever takes me up, the effort in planting and maintenance takes more than the cost of the plants I guess.
When you can't give things away for free, something is fucked up. No one has the time, the grind of life is too much. Restoration is a job, not a fun hobby.