Everyone has the power to make small changes in their everyday lives. Never underestimate the impact that your small everyday actions have in transforming the world!
Daily choices also help us be more aware of our relationship with the planet and feel ready to take on even bigger challenges.
Beware of perfectionism! Just because these are small actions, it does not mean they are easy. Habits take a while to develop, so do not feel pressured to make all changes at once. Personal change is also a process that requires you to be patient and loving to yourself: if at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off and try again!
Below, you can find resources and ideas for using your Climate Superpowers in your everyday life. Not sure which superpower to start with?
You can use your Social Superpowers to connect and collaborate with other people in your everyday life (friends, family, classmates). In this way, you can also use your skills to help others along their own journey to discover their Climate Superpowers.
Share this Climate Superpowers website with friends and others who would like to discover their own climate superpowers.
Post about climate action on social media.
Talk to your family or friends about why climate action is important to you and encourage them to also take action.
Human Superpowers give you the ability to help yourself and others in your journeys to climate action. Make the most of your unique resources and skills (education, physical and mental health, personal qualities, knowledge from lived experience and leadership capabilities) to make small changes in your life and the world around you.
Support a friend who is feeling down or anxious about climate change.
Support young activists on social media by following them, liking their content, and writing positive comments.
Educate others by sharing your lived experience of coping with climate impacts like flooding, fire or drought – only if you want to talk about it, of course.
Congratulate and do something nice for someone you know who has done something positive for climate action.
Natural Superpowers help us connect to nature in our everyday lives, no matter where we live, study or work. Connecting to nature in everyday life can help you stay healthy and centred, while contributing to climate action at the same time.
Make a veggie garden at home or school, or volunteer at a local garden in your community. Make compost. Use pots it you don’t have a lot of space.
Recycle and compost your waste. If there’s no compost system at your home or school, do your best to set one up!
Pick up litter that you see on the street or in nature.
For example, you could join Clean Up Australia Day.
Clean Up Australia Day happens every year on the first Sunday of March. But you can also organise your own Clean Up anytime! Just go to this webpage for information, resources and to create or sign up for a clean up.
Political Superpowers are useful to change our wider society but are also important to transform the places and organisations where you participate in your everyday life, like school, uni, and neighbourhood. In these contexts, your Political Superpowers will help you with important initiatives to build collaborations, negotiate and participate in important decisions.
Join forces with your classmates to talk to your school Principal about how to make the school more sustainable.
Promote youth-led climate action in your everyday life: post on social media, get creative with how you spread the message (e.g., from your t-shirt to the sticker on your laptop).
Talk to your Council, join their Youth Advisory Committee or other programs that they have on climate change
Find out about the latest IPCC Report on the current state of climate change in your region and the rest of the world.
Cultural Superpowers are a core aspect of how we see and act in the world. Your Cultural Superpowers are the values, wisdom and practices that your culture, spirituality and creativity give you to make positive changes in your everyday life. These tools also help you connect to your community and build resilience in the face of climate change.
Make a work of art (drawing, painting, writing, dancing, videos, etc.) that talks about climate action, and share it with your family, friends, at school or over social media.
Cook a delicious and sustainable recipe for your family or friends.
Check out this delicious list of recipes for sustainable snacks by WWC UK and tips on how to eat more sustainably.
Create a banner or a sign for the next time you go to the Strikes 4 Climate.
Invent creative ways to celebrate special occasions and traditions in a sustainable way. For example, you could make homemade gifts and party decorations.
Built Climate Superpowers are key to make sure that our lives at home, school and community contribute to climate action. These changes can take time but have long lasting impacts.
Talk to your parents about getting solar panels at home, and other options to save energy.
Help make your school, workplace or university more sustainable, for example, by installing solar panels and reducing waste.
Some tips for helping your school get solar panels:
- Opportunities and resources for your school to switch to clean solar energy will depend on your state and council. The following are examples that can help you, your classmates and school to explore options.
- Solar my School works with selected areas of Sydney and NSW to guide and support primary and secondary schools to transition to clean energy
If your parents are keen to get involved, share with them this link to a petition and fact sheet from Australian Parents for Climate Action
Is your teacher or Principal interested in helping you advocate for a more sustainable school? This resource may be interesting for them.
Advocate for your home, school, university or workplace to switch to renewable electricity provider, and stop using gas.
Switching to a renewable energy provider is usually quick and easy! But the adults who manage electricity bills – whether that’s your parents, school principal, housemates or someone else – might not know that. You can encourage them by explaining that it’s important to you, and providing information to them so all they have to do is click a few buttons or make a quick phone call. Green Power is a government managed program that helps you find renewable electricity providers
You can also advocate for your school to install solar panels.
Save energy and water at home. Don’t leave appliances on when you don’t have to, take shorter showers, don’t leave the tap on while you’re still brushing your teeth or washing the dishes, etc.
Do what you can to ensure that recycled toilet paper is used at your home and school.
Walk, cycle, or use public transport instead of a car to go places, if you can. Be conscious about how much you fly, and the impact it has on the environment.
Transforming our economy to become a more sustainable society involves both big and small changes. Our daily economies include our shopping habits (for example, how often and how much we buy) and the products that we choose (e.g., reusable vs disposable, imported vs local). As a consumer, you can express your views by supporting businesses that are responsible with the environment and all human beings.
Using your Financial Superpowers is not just about buying things, it is also about saving and prioritising what is important and living more simply. Financial Superpowers are also related to supporting environmental causes by sharing your time and effort through small everyday contributions
Try to buy local products, and fruit and vegetables that are in season.
Next time you want a new outfit, don’t buy something new from a store. Instead, have fun exploring other options like: buying second hand (e.g. at an op shop), mending an old item, or trading clothes with a friend.
Use reusable cups, cutlery, straws, wax wrapping. They also make great gifts!
Donate, help raise funds or volunteer for a cause that you believe in.
