Activity 5.1 – 12 things to do to Save the Planet

Agricultural

-Make plants that require less water to grow in agricultural business in order to save on watering. (Mazahreh, 2017)

Cooperation

-Create collaboration between producers with their entire traders, manufactures, brands, retailers, but also NGO, civic society and scientists to come together to find solutions. (Clay ,2010)

-Gather people around environmental problems to find, but also demanding environmental solutions. (Fee, 2017)

Collaboration

-Collaborating with businesses to make environmental changes. To pressure the switch of environmental/biodegradable products in retailers. That is one way to let businesses know what people are demanding. (Fee, 2017)

Engineering

-Build strategic urban water reservoirs to help reduce the chance of droughts in cities. (Mazahreh, 2017)

Education

Inform the people about environmental problems. (Mazahreh,2017)

Perception

Make people aware of the situation in their country, state, or region in order to motivate them to do their part. For example, with the use of electronic billboards. (Mazahreh, 2017)

Political

-Supply the necessary tools to people for free water-flow regulators, in order to empower them to make the difference. (Mazahreh, 2017)

-Train businesses in more depth to reduce their water consumption. In this way, water saving habits can reach everybody, not only in their home but also at work. (Mazahreh, 2017)

Lifestyle

-Reduce consumption by using less. (Clay, 2010)

-Be more conscious of our actions, for example by not flushing plastics and other things down the toilet. (Fee,2017)

Economical

-Involve bigger producers in environmental issues. In fact, they can leverage production of sustainable products much faster than consumers. (Clay,2010)

-Make the entire production more sustainable to conserve raw material. (Clay,2010)

Legislation

-Use private companies' voluntary standards from the best sustainable producers and use them to increment government regulation. (Clay, 2010)

Restoration

-Work as a single group or for an NGO to restore the natural environment, for example cleaning the beaches. (Fee,2017)

Reuse

-Buy reusable and sustainable products instead of single use one. For example, using a water bottle, reusable bag, reusable tampon etc. (Fee,2017)

Mazahreh, L. (2017). 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water [video]. TED@BCG. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/lana_mazahreh_3_thoughtful_ways_to_conserve_water/up-next

Fee, N. (2017). Why plastic pollution is personal [video]. TEDxBristol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJiQt9ASSNg

Clay, J. (2010). How big brands can help save biodiversity [video]. TEDGlobal. https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_clay_how_big_brands_can_save_biodiversity