Getting Involved
Getting involved in One Planet Week is simple! Clicking the Join One Planet Week button at the top of the page will allow you to set up a personal campaign page where you can upload a photo and tell people why you are getting involved in this program. You can then direct supporters directly to your page and it will keep track of your fundraising totals.
If you are unable to participate in One Planet Week but would like to make a donation towards it, simply click the donate button at the top of the page.
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Donate to One Planet Week
Your donation to One Planet Week supports OzGREEN in accelerating the shift to fairer futures by building a movement of inspired leaders. Having worked with over 100,000 people from over 1,000 schools and businesses OzGREEN's results speak for themselves -
- An average 35% reduction in personal eco-footprints
- Motivation and capacity to bring about change increased from 4/10 to 9/10
- Connectivity increased from 2/10 to 9/10
You can choose to sponsor a specific participant or make a general donation. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.
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Actions
We have developed a list of simple actions you can do to reduce your ecological footprint. We have split the actions into five key areas: Water, Waste, Energy, Food and Travel.
One Planet Week participants will choose at least 8 easy, 3 challenging and 1 long term action.
Click here to view the full list of actions.
Get Connected
Share your experiences on One Planet Week with everyone! We have set up a facebook page and a blogging section on this website that is open to all participants.
Click here to go to the Facebook page.
Click here to go to the Community Blog page.
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One Planet Week Overview
28 November 2011
One Planet Week is a new initiative from OzGREEN to motivate people to live sustainably.
In one planet week, participants will seek sponsorship to live for the week with a significantly reduced ecological footprint. This will involve actions such as walking or riding a bike to work, buying no packaged goods and eating local produce.
Ecological Footprint measures resource consumption of human activities across the whole lifecycle of a product or service and converts this to the amount of land needed to supply the resources consumed and assimilate the waste generated. The average Australian ecological footprint is 7.8 global hectares (gha) per person. If the whole world lived the lifestyle of the average Australian we would need the resources of over 4 planets.
In general, just under half of the emissions for which each of us is responsible come from things over which we have personal control, such as how much we travel and how we heat and power our homes. Of the rest, about 25 per cent of the total arises indirectly through powering our workplaces, about 10 per cent comes from maintaining public infrastructure and government, and about 20 per cent is emitted during the production of the things we buy, including food. We can still influence some of these indirect emissions through what we buy.
Click here for information on how to get involved.
Click here for a list of actions participants will undertake in One Planet Week.
Click here to make a donation in support of One Planet Week.