Personal Behavior
Make a Personal Impact on Climate Change
Broad, community actions can have a much higher impact than personal impacts, true – but you also control your own personal actions at home, at the office, shopping, and more. Even better, you can – and should – strengthen those actions’ impacts by making sure they are visible to others AND actively sharing them. Ripple effects count!
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Climate Steps: Personal
Pack a Go Bag
Adopt an animal near extinction
Unsubscribe from email lists
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Personal Behavior Articles
Bike instead of drive
Car travel is one of the biggest carbon dioxide emission sources and creates harmful particulates, nitrous oxide, ozone, and other pollutants. Cycling is a great alternative for many car journeys, bringing significant health benefits and saving serious money. Plus it...
Use eco-friendly laundry detergent
Solving the global plastic pollution problem is a huge task that is going to require the implementation of hundreds of different micro solutions. One of those solutions is replacing traditional plastic containers of liquid laundry detergent with an eco-strip, pod, or...
Let your hair air dry
Save time and energy by letting your hair air dry! Blow dryers cost money and you spend even more when they are pulling electricity. Plus, they also have that plastic shell (made of fossil fuels) and require some chemicals and pollution to create, whether or not they...
Better access to fresh, local food helps your community fight climate change
A wonderful, essential concept to build your community around is food. There are three main areas in which we can do so. First, by working with our neighbors to improve our community’s access to local, fresh food, we can spend more time in healthy environments while...
Avoid buying fast fashion
Fast fashion is when cheap clothes get rapidly produced in high volumes. Short-term trends are jumped on and low-quality products are pumped out. It is a common way clothes are created, and unfortunately, it harms the environment, garment workers, and, ultimately,...
Be a better gift giver + receiver
A tricky thing to reconcile about an appropriate climate change action is its effect on the ones you love. We are not all the same, and we do not have the same commitment towards the environment, nor towards how to give gifts as a way to communicate love. You have an...
Videos About Climate Change and Personal Behavior
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About Climate Change and Personal Behavior
Podcast: How Amazon Workers Got Serious About Climate (and How You Can, Too)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ta4QoWtiVLUmHkUH7PIqc