"contribute to saving" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use this phrase in a variety of contexts, such as when talking about making a financial contribution to a charity that is helping to save the environment. For example, you could say: "I'm proud to contribute to saving the planet by donating to this organization."
"Educational and recreational activities, while not seen as life-saving, do contribute to saving lives".
"Education, while not seen as life-saving, does contribute to saving lives," noted UNICEF Representative in Somalia Christian Balslev-Olesen, "because it provides a safe and healthy environment for children to learn, to occupy their minds, while we occupy ours with ensuring that they have clean water, adequate sanitation and enough to eat".
The results show that all alternative scenarios contribute to saving abiotic resources and reducing global warming potential.
"As about one-fourth of world electricity consumption is used for lighting purposes, the LEDs contribute to saving the Earth's resources," the committee said.
Some 70 sites were identified, driving the then housing minister Caroline Flint to ecstasy, claiming that all would be "carbon zero" and contribute to saving "the entire world".
We urge Medicare officials to reconsider their initial coverage denial for a screening tool that could contribute to saving both lives and health care dollars.
Fuel containing wastes contribute to save in firing energy, while fluxing wastes improve the ceramic properties.
For instance, cool roof tiles contribute to save 50% of primary energy for attic cooling in the hottest month, from 782 kWh to 398 kWh.
Broad met with potential donors at City Hall, telling them that, even if they didn't care about music, or didn't like Gehry's design, they had to contribute, to save the city from the humiliation of an unfinished hall.
Now the problem of repairing the church's roof and ceiling has been simplified: donors who would never contribute to save a dilapidated church with a shrinking congregation are more willing to give to a historic church with a well-run and rapidly growing soup kitchen.
The 19th-century doll houses and toys, the period rooms, the old fire engine next to restrooms with marble and enamel fixtures, thick wooden doors, brass door handles, the great sweeping staircase with its ironwork -- surely there are more of us who would contribute to save this building for its museum and the ghosts of visitors past.
