Earth Day is coming up on Tuesday, April 22 and I think that it is a really cool and fun way to get people involved in being eco-friendly. What is Earth Day all about? To me, it is an environmental New Year where you can make resolutions for the planet. The event motivates us to create positive resolutions for the world so that we can all together take care of it. It is a time to power up our commitments to be an active, global and environmental citizen.
The first Earth Day was in 1970. There is so much awareness and impacts now because of it, there is fun activities and there are new people ever year who get more interested in the issues. Guess how many people participated in Earth Day last year? One billion people got involved in more than 120 countries all over the world! All these people honored our environment and took action, having a drive to make change.
To help you out and get you empowered, I have a special and exciting challenge for you. I have created an Earth Day pledge called “Stop, Start and Continue” This is to stop things from destroying the environment, to start things that will motivate others to join you and to continue the things that you are already doing that will make a big difference.
There is space on the pledge in the tree to write what you want to do to help the environment. To guide you, here are only some ideas that you can put on your pledge:
Stop:
- Neglecting the environment. Just being aware makes such a big difference.
- Using plastic water bottles, the plastic goes into the landfill and they just add up.
- Thinking that caring about ANY cause or issue is not cool, it is!
- Not conserving water, the average family uses about 300 gallons of water a day, woah!
- Littering and throwing garbage on the ground.
Start:
- Using reusable bags and containers wherever you go, they don’t waste plastic and they don’t break as easily as plastic bags.
- A shoreline cleanup in your neighborhood to pick up litter. I organized one with my friends and we collected 10 full bags of garbage. You can do that too!
- Using GOOS paper, (Good On One Side) if there are paper that is still good on one side, don’t waste it. Give it to someone else or use it for doodling or just writing.
- Thinking about the environment as your passion, then pursue it and get involved in your community.
- Make eco-friendly cleaning supplies. Not only are they sustainable, but they are also not hazardous.
Continue:
- Using reusable water bottles.
- Unplugging electronics when not using them. Your computer may be in ‘sleep’ mode, but it is still on. Shut it off completely.
- Buying eco-friendly back to school supplies.
- Donating unwanted blankets to the Humane Society as animals would love to play with them.
- Walk, bike, carpool, skateboard or take the bus instead of driving. It saves a lot of pollution.
The top two pledges below are for individuals if you want to make resolutions by yourself, the other two are for families if you want to set goals with your family.
Click the pledges to print:
Make the sheet fun by colouring it and making it eye catching and awesome. The “Stop, Start and Continue” pledge is not just for Earth Day, it can be for anytime you want. Because if we come together help each other, Earth Day can be everyday so that we can make our world a healthy and beautiful one!
If you have any ideas for YOUR “Stop, Start and Continue” pledge, comment below, let me know what it is and I would love to hear about how you will get together with other people and make the world a better place for every person.
Addison Weedmark says
NICE!!!!! you are a hero! i really like your videos! you are inpressing a LOT of people. YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!