5 Ways to Take Powerful Climate Action from Home
Social media networks like Facebook and Instagram have a great impact on a person’s mind now. It is a great channel to speak about important things safely and urgently. Nothing like pandemic can prevent enthusiasts from moving on fighting climate change. Even staying at home, we can do something significant and useful for our sustainable tomorrow. Note, a smart climate action may become that necessary puzzle to the overall picture: each of us is a drop, but with enough drops, we can fill a bucket.
How to Take Climate Action Online?
The recent events connected with pandemic proved once again that we must be ready for everything, and try to see something positive in each situation. For example, now it is the best time to speak about urgent problems like water conservation, circularity, and other hot topics in sustainability. With so many people are online, it will be easier to start changing things that really matter. Here what you can do to continue taking care of the environment even while stuck at home; because Earth day is every day, and with such rapid climate changes, we have no time to wait for a more suitable moment.
1. Use your voice
Now, online space is the quickest way to speak about the problems of our planet. You can publish posts about climate change or share opportunities for taking climate action. You may show other people that they are not alone concerned about a climate shift. In today’s realities, it is important to add information from trusted resources to avoid possible misunderstandings. Include charts or any other infographics to point to the existing problems. Some new topics like Internet sustainability may cause a lot of buzz.
2. Contact elected officials’ offices
Social media posts are important, but calls can’t be ignored. The staff of elected officials’ offices tracks all calls they have on the various topic during the day. The most valuable ones are from their constituents because the officers are interested in their opinions. When you contact the office, make sure that a representative you talk to knows that you are a constituent. Share a quick overview of a problem and possible solutions that an elected leader can advocate for. Be brief and focus on the most crucial aspects to deliver your message.
3. Support sustainable companies
When you need some good or service, deal with the eco-friendly companies that take steps toward incorporating sustainability in all business processes, engage in sustainable reporting, and speak about such initiatives openly. You should be able to find this information easily on the Internet. By choosing eco-friendly firms, you invest in supporting sustainable businesses and show to other brands what matters.
4. Green your life
You are already taking care of the environment by working remotely since you do not use transport to reach the office. Still, you can do more to reduce the carbon footprint like changing to the LED bulbs and installing a water-saving showerhead. Another great climate action for preserving valuable natural resources you may take is gardening and transforming your back yard into a carbon sink. Think of composting your waste in composting containers. In addition to saving money and resources, it will improve the quality of your soil for gardening.
Start replacing plastic with alternatives made of cloth, paper, wood, stainless steel, glass, pottery & ceramics, cardboard, fiber, etc. According to the report ‘Plastic & Climate’, the production and incineration of plastic would pump out to 280 crore tonnes until 2050, hence this is an urgent issue you can tackle right now.
5. Join movements and take classes
People all over the world are taking the situation in their own hands in plenty of inspiring ways, and you may also join and support this movement. Surf the Internet and find the group that shares your way of thinking. By uniting, people become stronger and take more powerful climate action.
Suggest your HR department to engage the team in sustainability education online, which might also be a great way of team building while working from home. The gained knowledge will raise the awareness of your SME and make it embark upon a sustainability path.
Wrapping — up
It is very important to understand that not only big organizations have a great impact on the climate. Sustainability begins with a person who can start taking powerful climate action even while socially distancing. Luckily, now, more than ever, people are searching for ways to do their part. Use your voice to share success stories and keep them inspired and united. We all live in the same world, and there is no better time than now to take powerful climate action.
