More than 1000 people have succumbed to the recent heatwave across various parts of Canada and the USA. While the rising temperatures have posed a big threat to the health and wellbeing of millions of people, authorities have deemed it as another side effect of the long-standing Global warming issue. As it happened, the experts have pointed towards the immediate need to raise Environmental awareness among the masses.
Now, before anyone works towards that, they first need to understand the ways and methods to spread public awareness about environment. So, if you idolize someone like Greta Thunberg and want to pave the way for all those environmental awareness campaigns, try using these handy ways to strengthen your efforts.
Recommended Ways to Spread Environmental Awareness
1. Start from Within your Surroundings
Charity begins at home and so do your efforts regarding ecology awareness. So, if you really feel interested in kick-starting some Environmental awareness around, start from the people from within your surroundings.
Connect with your friends, family members, colleagues, or other people from your social media network. Afterward, make them aware of random ways to contribute towards various environmental awareness campaigns.
You can even start with small things like suggesting recycling plans to reduce wastage, buying reusable items, turning off the home appliances when not in use, and so on. These may seem like small things at first, yet can lay a significant impact on promoting public awareness about environment.
Recycling stuff to reduce waste
Recycling plans may sound easy, yet comes as an effective method to reduce waste. So, being the leader of this particular ecology awareness campaign, you must bring in a recycling bin at work while encouraging your friends and acquaints to use it.
While people do like to recycle in general, they still do not know what stuff is there to recycle, and what bins they must be used for that purpose. If you want to raise any such awareness in your office, you can try looking for recycling random stuff like laptops, PCs, and other related accessories.
Opt for Reusable stuff
Regardless of whether you are working in a small, medium, or big firm, you can encourage people to buy reusable stuff. This can include items like reusable coffee mugs, metal water bottles, or lunch boxes. This way, the organization can put a stop to all the random wastage due to non-reusable items. Firms can also offer their own branded reusable items to the employees in a quest to endorse environmental awareness.
According to a recent report shared by a USA-based NGO, more than 30 million plastic bottles get used by people every day. Out of these 30 million, about half the number ends up in random dumping grounds and oceans.
This comes as really shocking, especially due to the fact that reusable bottles can save you some good money. Even though these reusable bottles are more expensive, you can always refill them when in need. So, you need not buying plastic bottles every day and throwing them after usage.
There are various cafes in the USA that are offering heavy discounts to people that are coming with their own coffee mugs at their outlets. So, besides bringing you some peace of mind (given your contribution to the planet earth) you are also getting some huge discounts.
Turning Off Appliances
This comes as another effective way of spreading environmental awareness. You just need to guide people towards saving electricity and limit the usage of certain home appliances. There are times when we all leave our PCs and TVs on standby overnight, just because we are too lazy to switch them off.
Other times, we often leave the plugs in the sockets switch on, with nothing plugged in there. This may sound like a nominal goof up, yet can impact the environment in a big way. So, being the head of your ecology awareness campaign, you can bring this to the notice of all your friends, families, and colleagues.
Even as you do that, you first need to ensure implementing the same measures at your home and office. This way, you can set a big example for everyone else while walking your talks.
2. Join or Start an Environment Awareness Movement
A movement or protest is surely the best way to catch the attention of the masses. You can take inspiration from various climate-based movements in the previous eras. 2017’s People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C turned up as one such movement that pushed public awareness about environment.
A similar movement also surfaced in 2019 when thousands of people worldwide thronged to the streets against United Nations’ Climate Action Summit. The summit witnessed certain ‘not so favorable’ calls towards environmental awareness by several countries.
If you don’t know much about a likewise movement around, try kick-starting your own. For a start, you can connect with all the like-minded individuals around your vicinity. Social media has certain groups and public forums that incorporate a list of climate activists. So, you technically need not struggle much while gaining support for this movement.
3. Utilize the Power of Social Media
The world has officially entered a digital age. Moreover, billions of people spend hours daily while scrolling through various social medial platforms on their smart devices. So, you can officially use these platforms as a perfect tool to promote your environment awareness campaign.
Besides, you can ask more and more people to like, share and comment on your posts. Right within no time, you can witness some big support to your existing ecology awareness campaign. But yes, it all depends on how effectively and efficiently yo are putting your point forward in the same regard.
Use as many as possible words and phrases to voice your opinion regarding environmental awareness. A perfectly crafted post with all the right and most accurate information can certainly do the magic. Even if you have a tight schedule and cannot spend much time on these campaigns, try reaching out to random groups and forums on social media accounts that promote public awareness about environment.
4. Get in Touch with Public Authorities
Public or government authorities possess more power than anyone around us. Well, they are the ones to draft and implement all the laws regarding these environmental issues. Even when electing any public representatives, we must choose individuals that are highly sensitive towards all such issues. By getting in touch with them, you can certainly breach a milestone in your quest to raise awareness of environmental issues.
If you are concerned about an environmental issue within your locality, you must get in touch with the local and state authorities via phone or email. These may already have the right solution to that environmental issue. Yet, at times you need to hold them accountable in similar regards.
They have to come forward or else there’s every chance that they may not be elected in the forthcoming elections. Either way, you got your purpose regarding environmental awareness sorted.
5. Spread Environmental Awareness via Books and Online Blogs
It may not always be possible for you to prove your point regarding ecology awareness via the above-mentioned ways. A Climate crisis is something that people cannot feel, hear or witness instantly. Global warming may be alarming to a few, yet it may not be that concerning to a normal individual.
In all such cases, posting and sharing media or blogs that talk about all such issues comes of great help. This way, even a layman would be able to learn well about all these critical issues.
Certain movies like “Our Planet” or “Before the Flood” speaks rightly in a similar direction. Besides, there are several books and online blogs by random climate activists that may help you to spread the message. People instantly grab the message hidden in these books and blogs. And that’s where you can expect some more support for your efforts in similar regard.
6. Speak Through Common Man’s Perspective
People are highly unlikely to relate to something that isn’t impacting them on the first go. So, regardless of your efforts to spread environmental awareness, you may sometimes fall short. Hence, using messages and phrases that are more relatable to people is highly recommended.
Besides, you have to provide realistic situations and examples to the masses. This way, they can actually grasp the hidden message in your talks that actually impact them one way or another. This has been deemed as quite an effective way to conceptualize even the complex of issues.
7. Create Articles and Blog Posts
Well, here comes another handy way to spread that much-required environmental awareness. Yet you may only succeed if you got that talent and creativity to weave words around your thoughts. This trick works wonders on topics and issues that often go unnoticed.
Pick topics and themes that point towards an unforeseen climate crisis. You can make the best use of various blog forums and social media platforms to publish your content. Remember the fact that most of the information regarding ecology awareness stays hidden.
So, it’s your job to take curtains off all such critical issues for the betterment of mankind. As you do that, connect with numerous climate activists and other people to promote your content.
Overall:
Global warming is a subject that needs immediate attention from both the masses and public authorities. So, if you care a bit about saving planet earth, bring your best effort forward to raise environmental awareness.
This may sound like a drop in the ocean at first. Yet it holds enough power to catch the attention of the masses towards a highly critical topic.
