With Earth Hour just around the cor­ner, now is a great time to think about how you can live more “green”.

Dri­ving your car, using plas­tic bags or leav­ing on a few lights may seem minor, but even the small­est acts add up to make an impact on our cli­mate. The main cause of cli­mate change is the burn­ing of fos­sil fuels (coal, oil and nat­ural gas) to sat­isfy our hunger for energy.

Turn on the news and you’ll see that cli­mate change has already con­tributed to severe droughts, floods and extreme weather around the globe. We must pro­tect and sus­tain our envi­ron­ment to ensure we leave our chil­dren a liv­ing planet. Even minor changes have impacts that can be large and long-lasting.

WWF-Canada is cre­at­ing solu­tions to the most seri­ous con­ser­va­tion chal­lenges fac­ing our planet, help­ing peo­ple and nature to thrive. This means work­ing with busi­ness, gov­ern­ment and indi­vid­u­als to help them live lighter on the planet.

“We have the sci­ence, the tech­nol­ogy, and the pub­lic will to solve this prob­lem,” said Ger­ald Butts, pres­i­dent and CEO of WWF-Canada. “Nowhere else on Earth do so few peo­ple stew­ard so many resources. We must pre­serve our planet for future gen­er­a­tions by tak­ing action now.”

From global events to things you can do on a daily basis, here are some ways you can help:

1. Drive Less. Instead of tak­ing the car, why not walk, bike or take tran­sit. Cars and trucks run on fos­sil fuels, which release car­bon diox­ide into the atmosphere.

2. Get involved. Make your­self seen and heard by par­tic­i­pat­ing in green ini­tia­tives like WWF’s Earth Hour. On Sat­ur­day March 27 from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. (local time), join mil­lions of peo­ple around the world and turn off your lights for one hour in sup­port of action on cli­mate change. Let your lights sig­nal to busi­ness and gov­ern­ment that you are tak­ing action for the planet. You can find out more at www​.Earth​Hour​Canada​.org.

3. Buy local and sus­tain­able food. The aver­age food prod­uct trav­els about 2,000 kilo­me­tres before it reaches your table. Along the way it burns up energy – cre­at­ing green­house gas emis­sions that cause cli­mate change – as it’s pack­aged, shipped and stored. WWF-Canada has cre­ated Sus­tain­able Food Buy­ing Guides for regions across the coun­try to help Cana­di­ans shop sus­tain­ably. The guides are free and avail­able at http://​wwf​.ca/​f​o​o​d​g​u​ide.

4. Recy­cle, reduce and reuse. Recy­cling saves a lot of energy needed to extract, process, trans­port and make new mate­ri­als and prod­ucts. Recy­cle 100% of your glass, alu­minium, plas­tic, and paper and com­post your organic waste.

5. Stay grounded. Air­planes are one of the biggest cul­prits for pump­ing car­bon emis­sions high into the atmos­phere. If you must fly, then pur­chase car­bon off­sets to reduce the impact of your flight. WWF rec­om­mends gold stan­dard car­bon off­sets, such as Cli­mate Friendly (http://​cli​mate​friendly​.com).

You can learn more about how to take action to help fight cli­mate change online at www​.wwf​.ca.

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