Stop, Start, and Continue Pledge In French And English For Earth Day 2014

Hello from Montreal, where I’m on Week 3 of Free The Children’s We Create Change Tour, a road trip to help Canadian youth go further in making change. Spencer West, Neverest and I will be touring school communities to celebrate all of the positive change that Canadian youth are making during the Year of Education.

Today is Earth Day, and since we’re in Montreal, here are the pledges I created called “Stop, Start and Continue” in French and English. 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:

1. Neglecting the environment. Just being aware makes such a big difference.
2. Using plastic water bottles, the plastic goes into the landfill and they just add up.
3. Thinking that caring about ANY cause or issue is not cool, it is!
4. Not conserving water, the average family uses about 300 gallons of water a day, woah!
5. Littering and throwing garbage on the ground.

Start:

1. Using reusable bags and containers wherever you go, they don’t waste plastic and they don’t break as easily as plastic bags.
2. 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!
3. 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.
4. Thinking about the environment as your passion, then pursue it and get involved in your community.
5. Make eco-friendly cleaning supplies. Not only are they sustainable, but they are also not hazardous.

Continue:

1. Using reusable water bottles.
2. Unplugging electronics when not using them. Your computer may be in ‘sleep’ mode, but it is still on. Shut it off completely.
3. Buying eco-friendly back to school supplies.
4. Donating unwanted blankets to the Humane Society as animals would love to play with them.
5. 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:

And here are the pledges in English!