Welcome to this weeks edition of Crowdleaf’s newsletter.
We hope you are all still enjoying this lovely weather!
With the world cup well under way, it is heart warming to see fans taking care of their environment and picking up their rubbish after the game is over. This is a fine example of how we should take pride in our home on earth – not just after a great match but for all of our surroundings.
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New Zealand The Most Perilous Place For Seabirds Due To Plastic Pollution
Researchers Race To Make Bioplastics From Straw And Food Waste
Plastic Plates And Cutlery To Be Banned From Sale Under government Plans
100 Steps To A Plastic Free Life
Seattle Just Became The First Major American City To Ban Plastic Straws And Utensils
Weather watch: Wildfires Highlight Importance Of UK’s Peatlands
Child’s Asthma Linked To Illegal Levels Of Air Pollution
Court Action To Save Young From Climate Bill
Millions of Wet Wipes Flushed Into The Thames Causing Plastic Nightmare
UK Heatwave Helps Solar Power To Record Weekly Highs
Queensland Coal Push Grows As Turnbull Tries To Land Energy Guarantee
Dry Weather Boost UK’s Most Endangered Butterfly
Australia Needs Tighter Ivory Sale Laws Sale To Protect Elephants, Parliamentary Committee Hears
Is This The End Of The Yellow All-In-One Recycling Bin?
Local Authorities Urged to Embrace Separate Collection Model
What Does Sustainability Really Mean To The Customer?
This Toilet Provides Safe Sanitation Without Plumbing Or Electricity
Hampshire Farmers Market Oxford Street 7th July
Portsmouth Green Drinks ‘On Tour’ Artist Special, Part 1 11th July
Fight For Clean Air In Southampton And New Forest 17th July
South sea Wildlife Watch 21st July
Check Out Eco Collective who offer 100% vegan products and offer gluten free and organic produce.
Something we look to help businesses do in the future. If you are a business that is in the waste(not) business please get in touch –Mixed Plastic Banks In Southampton
Here is Southampton’s list on what to put into your blue lid recycling bin: What Can I Recycle?
Pledge Your Commitment To Improving Hampshires Recycling Habits
This brilliant website gives tips and ideas about food waste and how to reduce it.
Instead of throwing out or bagging up (to gather dust) all those clothes children quickly grow out of this is a brilliant website to buy or sell unwanted children clothes. It is run by a busy mum who also knows what it’s like with ever growing children and the endless amount of clothes children accumulate.
‘Last year a quarter of the clothing we got rid of was simply thrown away. That’s a staggering 300,000 tonnes that went into landfill. So many of those items could have been re-used and enjoyed by a another child, instead of contributing to the destruction of the planet.’
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Being GREEN is not just another fashion trend made up of recycling, eating ecological food or the use of solar panels, as many skeptics would argue. Being green means awareness of the negative impact of relentless climate change that needs us as individual to act to make a real difference. If not, every attempt is reduced to a mere commercial goal that doesn’t change the situation and is not able to reform the system either. However switching to a green age has become a matter of fashion, and a profitable business. The business is to promote products or services provided by a green label that gives an image of a modern and sensible business, one that cares for the environment.
Binge GREEN also has an emotional element, that it is the feeling of trying out new habits and changing the old codes of our daily life. Little sacrifices/efforts such as reducing cars circulation, recycling, buying ecological food, changing use of water or electricity suppliers and they all could make a big difference. 1st you change an attitude then a strategy, that is the main secret to building a new life. The emotional aspect is essential in the process and consists of being devoid of fear to the new and starts a sustainable process towards green habits.
The most effective way to address revolutionary changes is it through the educational system that transforms minds and build a new way of living individual and professionally. Until this critical moment arrives it reminds in our minds the idea that environment issues are not a matter of private concerns but a public issue that needs to be regulated at State level without individual efforts. However, individual attitudes are paramount and cannot be entirely dominated by a public authority. That is the importance to educate and convince people of the relentless impact of climate change and the influential impact of our private behavior. Educating present and future generations towards green patterns of behavior. Literally the conjunction of individual efforts could have a crucial impact on global crisis, not only climate change but also other crises like migration. In Ghana people are forcing to migrate because of the dramatic rise of the sea that submerge entirely villages.
In political aspects leaders committed with the environment need to reform their agenda substantially giving priority to strategies and budget around adaptation, and investment on natural resources. In the near future green parties would not exist and will give way to an entire green political class, above political ideologies. To be green is no a chapter in the political agenda anymore but a part of a solid project to any country with higher or reduced risks to be impacted by climate change.
Investment in Education programs and educate actors of the civil society around green matters become a central pillar for building resilience and to educate the political class.
Be Green and not die trying must be the motto for the coming decades. More than ever, individual efforts are more effective and more feasible to achieve results in the short term than big bureaucratic public initiatives have tended to be.
“Falling” or “rolling” into a new Green age? For new generations means “rolling” as is part of their education process. For the latest and the skeptics means “falling” resigning to old codes of habits by integrating new concepts.
Never mind if you are falling or rolling, being green is the only sustainable investment at an individual level…. thus it is just a matter of time…
This post was originally posted by @MarIntroini for their blog : thesustainabilityreader.com