If you jumped into a time machine and whizzed off to 2030, how would you like the world around you to look upon disembarking? What would have changed? How can we achieve our collective vision of a better world? We all have great power to shape our local communities and the wider world through our everyday choices – where we spend and invest our money, how we vote, conversations that we have, questions that we ask, how we treat our environment and other people.
This month’s social was all about the actions that we can and do take every day, which play a part in shaping the world. Everyday Activism can include things like protests, campaigning and emailing your MP, but also choosing active travel over driving, consuming less (stuff and energy), switching your bank account, reducing single use plastics, encouraging children to be creative and connect with nature, having climate conversations, planting trees and wildflowers, boycotting companies who don’t meet our values, eating less meat and dairy, starting a sustainable blog….
We shared some of the things that we already do in our Everyday Activism and it turned out, we are already doing loads of great stuff. Getting the bus instead of driving, learning more about climate change, always having a reusable cup to hand, sharing veggie recipes with others, donating to environmental and social justice organisations, writing to companies, signing petitions and reducing energy consumption were just some of the actions that came up.
There can be a lot of doomism around climate change and environmental destruction, but one person really can make a difference – like Ella Daish and her End Period Plastic campaign. There are millions of people doing great things every day, so, wield the Power of You and your Everyday Activism!
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