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Pledge to Live a One Planet Life

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If everyone consumed as much as North Americans, we would need five planets to sustain our high-waste, high-pollution habits.

Each of us can make a difference. By learning more about our individual impact, we can significantly reduce the amount of pollution and waste we produce as a whole. It can start with something as simple as buying fewer pieces of clothing or driving one less day per week.

Please watch the video, and show your commitment to decreasing your impact on our One Planet by signing this pledge and learning more from the resources provided by Care2. Pledge to live a One Planet Life, learn more and teach others about how it can be done!
  
I pledge to start practicing One Planet living by:
- Educating myself about how to reduce my impact on the Earth
- Telling my friends how they can reduce their impact on the Earth
- Reducing the amount of clothing and luxury items I buy
- Reducing energy consumption in my home
- Buying healthy, local, organic food
- Cutting down on transportation
- Buying environmentally-friendly home and personal care products
- Cutting down on water use and waste in my home
- Offsetting my impact by supporting organizations that work to preserve natural resources  

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8:56 am PDT, Jul 4, Helia Marcos, Portugal
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9:11 pm PDT, Jul 3, Anthony Bell, Texas
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11:38 am PDT, Jul 3, Dale Riehart, California
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8:50 am PDT, Jul 2, Name not displayed, Minnesota
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5:34 am PDT, Jul 2, Kim Neff, Pennsylvania
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5:14 am PDT, Jul 2, Jane Sunshine, New York
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12:29 am PDT, Jul 2, Anna Meacham, Georgia
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5:54 pm PDT, Jul 1, Dolores Bookstein, Florida
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9:07 pm PDT, Jun 30, Lisa Costello, Connecticut
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11:00 am PDT, Jun 30, Lori Stefano, Washington
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6:44 pm PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, Illinois
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2:50 pm PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, New York
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10:32 am PDT, Jun 29, John Hatton, Vermont
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7:10 am PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
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12:19 pm PDT, Jun 28, Barbara Brown, Florida
This whole thing to save our planet is really to the extreme. We as individuals has done this to our own planet, but with the help of all the manufactures as well. First it started with the throw away items that manufactures thought was more convenient and we thought so too because thats all we buy nowadays. Throw away this, throw away that. What happened to recycling your drink bottles for a refund? 5 & 10 cent refunds on glass bottles. Then come the to-go boxes..Use to be light card board whick could go in the garbag or you could burn them...Now everything is sytrafoam..Never degrades. Takes years and stuck in the landfills along with throw away diapers, milk containers, and everything else...Again never degrades for years to come...The manufactures won big time and we bought right into it. Now here we are on this planet with over filled land filles and crap pouring out into the land and waters all round us....This problem is everyone's problem...We have waited to long to try and fix this...We will clean up a little here and there. But it really is too late to save very much. And now our grand children will suffer because we as Americans was in the throw away society. We all were and if you say you didn't, then you are a liar. You have thrown something away, sometime..How bout a papertowel. When I grew up, there was o such thing. We had hand and dish towels that was placed in the laundry when dirty. You ever see that anymore.??? There are a million ways we are all guilty of this horriable thing we have done to our planet. And now, here we are, scrambling to find a way to save the good in out planet, or what's left of it...It's a sad time for all.....
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9:52 pm PDT, Jun 27, Melissa Buchanan, California
To educate myself in how I impact the planet and change my use of products and the waste I accumulate. Limiting my driving and cutting down on water use and waste of water. Buying local produce and healthy foods for myself and the earth.
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10:04 am PDT, Jun 27, Nancy Pitkavish, Michigan
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12:41 am PDT, Jun 27, Rebecca Greene, California
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10:16 pm PDT, Jun 26, Dalia Hettfield, California
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12:55 pm PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
By expanding the amount of produce that I personally grow in my city lot. By not using any chemicals in my home or property in general. By replacing all plastic in my home with glass. I have been working on these items for quite a few years already and my grocery bill is very small because I can, freeze, or store suitable vegetables for use through the winter. It is frustrating how readily people accept gifts of vegetables from me but make no effort to improve their own health or the health of the world by doing this themselves. We must all start taking responsibility for ourselves. Advertisers have surely duped us all into thinking that they can do everything for us. However, they really don't care much about what they sell - the safety, the quality. What a very sad state of our world. Plant something, sew your clothes, mend your clothing, maintain your shoes - I have shoes in my closet from the 70's and people always take notice - "Wow, where did you buy those shoes?" When I tell them how old they are they think I'm joking. It's time we all act like adults and contribute to our world instead of using it up day in and day out.
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10:04 am PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Florida
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1:41 pm PDT, Jun 25, Emma Nicholson, Canada
eat local food, walk, bike or bus, less flying, green electricity - convince others to do the same!
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4:57 am PDT, Jun 25, Bobbie Flowers, New York
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4:45 pm PDT, Jun 24, Wyman Whipple, Illinois
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2:53 pm PDT, Jun 24, Scott Elliott, Idaho
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2:13 pm PDT, Jun 24, Jamie Volbrecht, California
Buy clothing at 2nd hand stores, buy organic, buy toiletries packaged with recycled materials, and STOP buying water bottles!
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2:07 pm PDT, Jun 24, Rick Blair, California
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1:23 pm PDT, Jun 24, Glenda Jasper, California
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7:53 am PDT, Jun 24, Sandi Fentiman, Canada
I plan on reducing my consumption of the paper towels I use by using cloth or a biodegradable towelette instead. I'm starting to make my own cleaners; which are quite effective, and package my "family pack" meats in Tupperware/Ziplock containers instead of plastic bags. The containers last much longer.
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11:24 am PDT, Jun 23, Sarah Manthey, Ohio
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3:54 pm PDT, Jun 22, Mike Antone, Arizona
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2:14 pm PDT, Jun 22, Geri Fowler, Florida
I've cut back on plastic and paper products and convenience foods. I plan on trying to convince others to do the same. I walk to work.
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2:09 pm PDT, Jun 22, Name not displayed, Illinois
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6:10 am PDT, Jun 22, Julie Figueroa, Florida
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7:33 pm PDT, Jun 21, Robert Turner III, Texas
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5:33 pm PDT, Jun 21, Whit Scott, North Carolina
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1:04 pm PDT, Jun 21, Amy Brown, Florida
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12:30 pm PDT, Jun 21, Jessie Bourke, Arizona
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12:22 pm PDT, Jun 21, Emily Austin, New York
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10:32 am PDT, Jun 21, Elisabeth Kelly, Maryland
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9:14 am PDT, Jun 21, Toby Rane, California
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11:32 am PDT, Jun 20, Deborah Fexis, New Hampshire
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2:44 am PDT, Jun 20, Name not displayed, New York
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2:52 pm PDT, Jun 19, Aleasha Casaretto, Texas
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6:31 am PDT, Jun 19, Nadia Knoblock, Pennsylvania
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6:29 am PDT, Jun 19, Susan Artone-Fricke, Colorado
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2:06 am PDT, Jun 19, Paula Urrutia, Italy
Trying to consume only what is necesary, buying local, and seasonal food; direct from the producer if possible, recycling. Ussing less the car, waking, using bike and public transport, more.
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