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Applications to daily life. Don’t litter!. By not littering and picking up litter you see, you may be saving the life of a marine mammal. Also floods, dengue, etc!. Photo credit: Sherard Design. Personal. Battle the Consumer Culture Buy less Refuse plastic bags Bring your own water
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Don’t litter! By not littering and picking up litter you see, you may be saving the life of a marine mammal. Also floods, dengue, etc! Photo credit: Sherard Design
Personal • Battle the Consumer Culture • Buy less • Refuse plastic bags • Bring your own water • Bring your own coffee mug
Personal • Reduce paper use • Recycle paper (one-sided use) • Avoid styrofoam!
Personal • Communicate – facebook • Communicate – blog, newsletter
Workplace (higher returns) • Daily resource use • Leakage, air-con, recycling programme • Event catering (recyclable, less food, vegetarian options)
Activist • Ask for reductions • Change practises – goodie bags • Applicable to other resources – take an interest – green audit
Activist • Write and ask for reductions • Question food wastage, excess plastic use, etc. • Share solutions – ICCS needs a page
ICCS Green Audit • Providing water? (why?) • Providing food? (cornware at least) • Gloves – reuse, no space (recycle) • Banner (reuseable?); t-shirts (why?)
Meatless one day/week • 1 Overheating the planet • 2 Eating up land • 3 Drinking too much water • 4 Causing deforestation • 5 Poisoning the earth • 6 Spoiling the oceans • 7 Ruining the air • 8 Making us prone to disease • 9 Draining the world's oil • 10 Meat's costly, in many ways