Sunday, April 22 is Earth Day. This is a time to stop and think about the impact our lives have on the environment and on the society surrounding us. Maybe you can find a way to give back…
How are you going to celebrate it? Here are some TIPS:
Take some time on Earth Day — or any day — to enjoy your favorite wild place
NO to CO2 . Act, don’t react – YOU can reduce your carbon footprint!
(workshop by our fellow EOI students)
We are all responsible for greenhouse gas emissions but the good news are: we are all part of the solution to decrease its level!
That’s why it is important to act together to reduce the amount of global CO2 emissions in order to improve our quality of life, reduce negative impacts from climate change, specially, in the most vulnerable regions and to guarantee sustainability of natural resources. Therefore:
>>The reduction of our carbon emissions must become a new common principle<<
Here comes the question of HOW to reduce????
There are plenty of ways to reduce your carbon emissions in your daily activities, ways of consumption and lifestyle habits.
It is very easy to identify the areas you can modify, however if you calculate your carbon footprint you can realize how much carbon emissions you are responsible for. Then you’ll be surprised how well you do or not!?
But don´t be discouraged you can still be an active planet role player, start to collaborate and share this message and attitude towards actively reducing your personal and peers CO2 emissions.
If you want to know more about the importance why to care about carbon emissions, learn how to calculate your carbon footprint and find simple ways that you can apply to your lifestyle and future choices then come and join us in the workshop 18.04.12 NO to CO2 Act, don’t react – YOU can reduce your carbon footprint! In the EOI Madrid @ 14:15
Responsible consumer workshop, for those who want to be responsible, find out what it means responsible
There is a failure somewhere in the system, indeed. Isn’t food meant to be something essential for life and also a tasty, healthy social activity without hurting anyone or anything? Nowadays, it isn’t. If we think of cheap junk food packed in several layers of plastic, or the fruits, which arrive after a long way of transport (CO2 emission) to be halfway ripe and, or our favorite fish and meat sold in a big supermarket coming from industrialized farms facing animal cruelty, containing antibiotics and causing big pollution? Why don’t we care more about our meals? For many people it seems to be easier to stay loyal to a cloth brand (which we wear outside our body), than to spend more thoughts, time, energy, money on what they eat (and gets inside the body). Let’s make sure the failure is not in our system!
Do you ever stop for a moment before buying something (food, cloth, electrical device etc.) to check the details on the package and think about the impact (health, environmental, social) that product has made so far? If so, thank you! If not very often, then this is the time to think about it and give it (and yourself) another chance. Our little practical customs in our behaviour, what needs to be changed as they make the change!
You might think: this is just one drop in the ocean. What if this is the last and most important drop before the water overflows? Consumers have the power of purchasing and to influence producers and distributors. It is always a demand – supply question. As Jane Goodall, one of my personal heroes, says: “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Do you remember the red and the blue pills Morpheus offers? You decide!
So, are you interested in turning to a more responsible, conscious, sustainable consumer, participate in the Green Economy and make a positive impact? It is not that hard. It is just one decision away!
Come and learn more about it at our Net Impact workshop on March 15th.
Responsible Consumption 