Since a very young age I was trying to educate myself on a sustainability issue. I was always intrigued by it but I never really understood it. When I was younger, I volunteered in organising sea clean-ups but I can’t really say I knew the severity of the problem.
I would say my awareness started to grow 7 years ago when I worked for Vivienne Westwood who is one of the biggest (and coolest) environmental activists out there. Whilst following her Climate Revolution blog and climate related protests, I started realising how big the problem actually is, how every single thing in this world is connected directly or indirectly to the Earth.
Initially, I was even thinking “Environmental activism is for Hippies”, making excuses such as “That’s not my problem”, “My contribution will not make any difference anyway” or similar.
What actually bothered me and why I never took action before is because I didn’t know where to start and what to do to make any difference to such a mammoth global issue (in such a huge picture worldwide). I still don’t. I’m still learning about sustainability but now it’s more than obvious to me that this is my problem too.
This year, I decided to at least try to do something. I will be incorporating a few sustainable changes into my life every year. For 2021, I choose 5 simple ones:
Incorporate sustainability into my job. Work with purpose not exclusively for consumerism. Hence why I founded GAIA together with Robyn in the first place.
I’m aware I can’t change my habits instantly so I hope these small steps will point me in the right direction.
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