Everyday Actions for the Planet

What is Everyday Actions for the Planet?

Within Earth & Environmental Science, which covers our planet, its resources and ecosystems, and how people can protect the environment, this topic explains Everyday Actions for the Planet. Earth and environment topics show how the planet’s systems shape landscapes, climate and life, with models that make these processes visible.

Check that you can explain Everyday Actions for the Planet in your own words and give one example from everyday life. If you can do that, you have understood the core idea.

Understanding Everyday Actions for the Planet helps you explain the environment around you and weigh up how people can protect it.

Everyday Actions for the Planet in detail

Individual choices add up. At home, save energy by turning off lights, using LED bulbs and not overheating, save water, and reduce, reuse and recycle waste. Choose to walk, cycle or use public transport, and limit flying where possible.

Eat more plant-based food, avoid food waste, buy fewer, better-quality items, repair rather than replace, and avoid single-use plastic. You can also support green businesses, plant trees and wild spaces, join clean-ups, and speak up and vote for environmental policies. Combining personal actions with community and political action creates the greatest change.

How the interactive helps you understand Everyday Actions for the Planet

Click a card to flip it and reveal the answer, then move on to the next one.

Before you change anything, predict the result. Then change one value at a time and check whether your prediction was right. This is a quick way to build a correct mental model of Everyday Actions for the Planet.

Real-life uses and examples

• Explain how Everyday Actions for the Planet affects the landscape or climate near you.
• Link Everyday Actions for the Planet to a real environmental problem and a possible solution.
• Use a diagram of Everyday Actions for the Planet to describe the steps of a process in order.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Describing a process without the timescale it works over.
• Presenting one cause as the only cause of an environmental change.
• Learning the definition without testing it. Use the quiz and the interactive to check that you can apply the idea.