One Million Acts of Green
What is One Million Acts of Green?
This season, CBC and The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos want to mobilize Canadians to do One Million Acts of Green. In partnership with Cisco, the idea behind the campaign is that one small act can make a big difference.
It’s not about overhauling your life; it’s about one act from each individual amassing to a million. It can be as simple as switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs, starting a recycling program, or walking to work. You can do one act?" or you can do all one million! It’s up to you.
Young and old, parents and kids, small towns and big cities, we want to create an exciting grassroots initiative. All you have to do is go to this website and register one act?" or more. Our green calculator, designed by GreenNexxus, will determine the impact of those acts on the environment.
We're asking everyone to get involved: schools and universities, cities and communities, business, politicians, and even celebrities. George and The Hour are challenging other CBC programs to go green, including CBC News, Kids’ CBC, Steven & Chris, Living, and CBC Sports. But most of all, YOU.
Together we can make an impact. Together we can make our lives, our communities, and our environment greener.
One million acts of green, one act a time.
Comments on this Entry:
1 Karen Brown / 2008-12-01
We live in suburbia. For the last 3 years we have been putting out our recycling & garbage together with our neighbours on our property. (We are the middle neighbours.) Hopefully it cuts back on the trucks having to idle, as they only have to stop once, instead of 3 times. Karen Brown
2 Karen Brown / 2008-12-01
We live in suburbia. For the last three years we have put out our recycling & garbage with our neighbours, on our property. (We are the middle neighbours.) Hopefully it helps cut down on idling for the trucks, as they only have to stop once instead of 3 times. Karen Brown
3 karen hoiness / 2008-11-24
Please stop airing the woman who can shower in 8 minutes! what on earth is she doing in there? There is a water main break on my street. I have managed washing me, my dishes, and flushing my toilet so far on about 4 gallons of water. Can you imagine what someone in a refuge camp could do with 8 minutes worth of water? This particular clip makes a joke of you 1 million acts of green.
4 Sophie Labonne / 2008-11-23
Oups! I guess there was a problem with the numbers, so here they are again: the price for one ton of cardboard went from one hundred and ten dollars to ten dollars; for recycled newspaper, from two-hundred and twenty dollars per ton to thirty five dollars per ton.
5 Sophie Labonne / 2008-11-21
Good afternoon George, I wanted to share this piece of information with you. Alarming news it is... With the current financial crisis, not only our investment portfolios are suffering, but recycling companies are being hit as well, and this is surely not helping our efforts in becoming green. Weaker demand for recycled paper and cardboard from both the American and Chinese markets has a direct impact on the market prices for these commodities. In just a few weeks, the price for one ton of cardboard went from 0 to ; for recycled newspaper, from 0 per ton to per ton. What that means is some companies are actually paying to get rid of their surpluses due to lack of storage; some are even sending their surpluses to regular dumping grounds. For them, it's either that or going out of business. We should not let the present financial turbulences have an impact on our acts of green, but companies and governments should collaborate in order to find solutions to this challenge. This information was found on the Radio-Canada and the Recyc-Québec websites. Hoping that one day, money and profit leave some space for a greener future! Have a great week-end in my town...Go Habs Go!!
6 Paula / 2008-11-18
Recylcling has become part of how our family lives; there's inevitable clutter -- but we've made the space for it. I was driving with my 15 year old daughter to school one morning and a DJ on one of our local radio stations was talking about something or other and out of the blue said, "That's just as pointless as recycling." I didn't know if I heard him correctly! I have yet to hear back from my email to follow up with him, but in the meantime, I've done a google search and actually found some points about paper recycling specifically that discusses the amount of chemicals and energy used for paper recycling, which hadn't occurred to me. It's my nature to keep recycling, but if anyone is compelled to share their perspective on this, I gotta hear it all! I appreciate the interactiveness of One Million Acts of Green, and how it's getting people involved! Thanks to George, The Crux of Cool;) you have a way of making that impact!
7 Alan Morgan / 2008-11-12
Brielle and Tracy's P7S Campaign across Canada raising young (and avg AND older) Canadians' awareness about the IMPORTANCE of giving, and specifically to eradicate extreme poverty, especially in Africa and other urgent sites. Check out: www.pointsevensnowball.org they deserve some spotlight George! ASM
8 Abby Cooke / 2008-11-07
All it takes is 5 minutes! :)
9 Connie G / 2008-11-07
Yet another great idea from the Hour and George Stroumboulopoulos. I started my Green Project a month or so ago and have been attempting each week to do something small, whether it is going in for my coffee with my own cup rather than idling in the drive thru for their paper cups, changing lightbulbs, visiting green websites and signing petitions, etc. Thanks!
10 Angie / 2008-11-03
Great initiative George. One thing you might want to consider is having a checklist for when people sign up so they can check off all their acts at once, not all the acts seem to work when you try to add them.
11 Janelle / 2008-11-02
Last year I bought the "Green Living Guide" off the GreenPeace website and it showed me lots of ideas about how to easily "go green." It has really opened my eyes to how simple being "green" can be. Nice work on the idea of this challenge!
12 Jade / 2008-11-02
One of the biggest changes I've made since leaving the city, is switching to recycling and composting. Living downtown we used the garbage chute and sometimes dumped things in the giant bins in the laneway. I didn't realize that so much of my garbage could be recycled and composted. We now only put one garbage bag out every 2 weeks! It seems so easy to me now. This is a great initiave! Kudos to you George!!
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