What Can I Do to Help Climate Change?

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James Walters
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Here we answer “What Can I Do to Help Climate Change” with Menstrual Products, Reusable Water Bottles and Coffee Cups, and Food; and Helping Climate Change with a Bit of Research. This is part of our series on helping climate change by Growing, Eating, and Living in a Way That Could Be Sustained Forever.

Welcome to part 8 of our mini series on climate change.

In this mini series, we’re covering everything from what is climate change, the causes, the effects, and how you can help to stop climate change.

If you already know that it’s important to do something about climate change, here are the things that you can do:

  1. Check out #VoteWithOurMoney with 6 Steps to Help Stop Climate Change
  2. Try the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Solutions to Climate Change
  3. Use the Company Directory to Help You Grow, Eat, and Live Sustainably

If you want some more facts before making any decisions, let’s get into the details:

Here’s what we’ve covered so far;

This time we’ll dive into 3 of the ways that you can help climate change with products and food. These solutions are taken from our Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Ways to Help Climate Change.

What Can I Do to Help Climate Change That’s Easy?

The first part of our sustainability roadmap has 16+ ideas of what we can do to help climate change.

We’ve already covered a few of the ideas in this mini series, such as;

  1. Instead of Google Use Ecosia and Plant Trees
  2. Switch to an Ethical Bank
  3. and Don’t Flush After Every Wee (and other water saving ideas)

There are also tons of other things that we can do in your day to day life to reduce our impact on the planet, and live a happier and more meaningful life.

Switching Menstrual Products

Can you guess what is one of the 10 single-use plastic items most commonly found on European beaches? Yep, you guessed it, sanitary items. That’s not what any of us want to find when we’re trying to relax on a beach.

It’s not only beaches that are affected by single-use menstrual products. Throw away menstrual products cost us all money, because they increase the cost of our water bills. How?

Water and sewage companies have to spend a lot of time unblocking sewers that have been blocked by menstrual products (combined with fats, oils, grease and food waste). It costs £88 million a year, just in the UK! That cost gets passed on in our household bills.

But, we can very quickly stop all that waste, all that pollution, all that cost.

Switching to reusable menstrual cups is a quick and easy swap AND it saves £1,000s over the life of someone with a period. It’s a no-brainer. And, it’s a health consideration because some big brand non-organic period products include pesticide residues, fragrances, and plasticizers!

Read More About Switching Menstrual Products:

Switch to Reusable Water Bottles and Coffee Cups

Here’s a quick quiz for you.

So, the UK has a population of around 70 million people.

Question 1: How many plastic bottles are purchased every minute?

Question 2: How many disposable coffee cups are used every day?

The answers are:

1,000,000, yep 1 million, plastic bottles are bought every minute! Every minute!!

And

3,000,000,000, yep that’s 3 billion, disposable coffee cups are used every day!

Switching to reusable water bottles and coffee cups are two ways to quickly reduce our consumption and waste to help climate change.

Here Are Some Recommended Reusable Water Bottles and Coffee Cups:

Helping Climate Change with a Bit of Research

The next part of our sustainability roadmap has 12+ climate change solutions.

As these solutions need a bit of research, it’s good to find out your carbon footprint. Then you’ll know the areas you need to focus on.

The easiest changes with the biggest impact on helping climate change are switching to a green energy deal, and (because they continue to invest in fossil fuels) transferring your pension to an ethical, green, and sustainable fund.

The next one on the list is, I feel, such an important part of helping climate change and improving our own health. It’s switching from buying any food to buying organic, biodynamic, or regenerative food. Why? Because many conventional foods have been produced using synthetic chemicals, including dangerous chemicals such as pesticides. Conventional farming also degenerates the soil and contributes to climate change. You can read more about growing regeneratively and sustainably.

If those of us that can afford to buy organic food make the switch now, we help to lower the cost of organic foods. We help farmers to transition from conventional to organic, biodynamic, or regenerative agriculture.

Find Out More About Buying Organic Food and Drink:

We Can All Do Something to Help Climate Change

The next goal in the climate crisis is to halve global emissions by 2030. For those of us that can afford to change the way we live, halving our emissions is completely within our control.

By changing how we live, where we keep our money, how we spend our money, we can all play our part in stopping climate change.

The most important event in the history of climate change (and you could say in the history of humanity) is happening in November 2021, the UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow. Whilst we need government support to help us switch from gas boilers to heat pumps or diesel and petrol cars to electric vehicles, we can change the majority of things ourselves. By changing the way we live and how we spend our money, showing that we prioritise people and planet, we can encourage or force businesses and governments to change too.

Stay tuned for the last part of this mini series with another batch of Climate Change Solutions.

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Here Is What You Can Do

Want to Continue Your Journey?

Where Next?

There is so much inspiring information to give you ideas of how to help climate change by growing, eating, and living sustainably, you can:

  1. Read Our Articles
  2. Sign-Up to Our Free Email Newsletter
  3. Get Started and Vote with Your Money
  4. Try the Sustainability Roadmap
  5. Use the Company Directory
  6. Support Nafford Junction

Help Us Inspire Others

If you are passionate about helping climate change, please consider supporting Nafford Junction, you can:

  1. Become a Patron to Give Regular Contributions
  2. Buy Me a Coffee to Make a One-Off Contribution
  3. Create for Us and Publish Thought Provoking Content
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  5. Go to NaffordJunction.co.uk/support

Sources Used to Create This

  1. Single-use plastics
  2. LONDONASSEMBLY
  3. Bloody Good Period: HOME
  4. Plastic pollution
  5. How to Find Out Your Carbon Footprint
  6. How to Switch to a Green Energy Supplier
  7. How to Transfer to an Ethical Pension
  8. How to Buy Organic Food and Drink
  9. Grow Sustainably and Help Climate Change

Production Notes

This was produced by me, James Walters, as a personal project to help stop climate change by inspiring others to grow, eat, and live sustainably.

Any advice given is the opinion of those involved and does not constitute medical, financial, or legal advice.

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