Think about your own life
Choose an action below that will help you as contribute to a more environmentally sustainable future as well as save money.
For one week try not using any electrical appliances in your home. Look at your electricity meter before you start and afterwards and donate $1 for every kWh you have saved.
For one week, change your transport habits to walk somewhere instead of driving, catch public transport or get on a bike. Estimate how much you have saved and donate it instead.
Reduce the amount of junk food and packaging in your life: For one month, note each time you are tempted to buy chips, lollies, softdrink, chocolate. Note the amount you would have spent and donate it instead.
For groups or those who want more of a challenge: Take the 40 day Carbon Fast
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The Issue
It may be the middle of winter but average global temperatures are still rising! May 2010 was the warmest on record. See: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100615_globalstats.html
Climate change threatens to undermine all the millennium development goals – an internationally agreed to set of goals to alleviate poverty by 2015. Climate change will make fresh water harder to find through drought, and food harder to grow through changes in the growing seasons. It will also impact on people’s basic health – particularly of mothers and their babies. Communities will be more vulnerable to natural disasters and it will be harder for children to go to school if they have to move.
Hear from Claire in Kiribati – an island in the Pacific
We can’t afford to not take action
The Federal Government promised it would do something about climate change when it was elected, but now it has promised to do no more and no less than other countries. But in the developed world, Australia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change – so it’s also in our best interests to take action now and ask others to follow our lead. Tell the Government in the lead up to the election we want them to take the lead on climate change, not simply follow the pack.
