Participants in previous Green Action Week campaigns have found creative and impactful ways to demonstrate the need for and benefits of sharing communities. See some of our campaign stories and blogs below.
Celebrating Campaigns of 2024
In Green Action Week 2024 there were many inspiring activities that took place around the world. These focused on different angles of food, water, energy and waste for sustainable consumption. Each campaign brought in aspects of a sharing community through sharing knowledge, skills, resources, time, infrastructure, and more. Download our mini-stories booklet and read about the 2024 Green Action Week campaigns.
Celebrating Campaigns of 2024
In Green Action Week 2024 there were many inspiring activities that took place around the world. These focused on different angles of food, water, energy and waste for sustainable consumption. Each campaign brought in aspects of a sharing community through sharing knowledge, skills, resources, time, infrastructure, and more. Download our mini-stories booklet and read about the 2024 Green Action Week campaigns.
Our West African colleagues focused on filling critical gaps in nutrition, food safety and environmental awareness in Green Action Week 2024. In Benin, campaigns focused on household food security, in Ivory Coast, urban biodiversity was highlighted as a key element of climate regulation, in Niger, cassava consumption was encouraged and in Senegal, the focus was on food safety and hygiene.
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) hosted a hands-on workshop on natural cooling methods and launched a seed-sharing initiative to promote energy savings and sustainability.
Consumer Lebanon ran an innovative water conservation campaign via WhatsApp and social media, engaging women and youth in saving water despite the challenges of a war zone.
The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe’s “Bring a Bag Campaign” encouraged reusable bags to reduce plastic waste and pollution, offering workshops to create eco-friendly bags from old t-shirts.
Unsustainable farming practices like monocropping and chemical inputs are harming the environment and depleting soil fertility, making it harder to grow nutritious crops.
Green Action Week is a global campaign focused on building Sharing Community as a way of showcasing sustainable consumption. More than 40 organizations around the world host exciting events and workshops every year to highlight innovative responses to pressing challenges.
The production of energy from non-renewable fossil fuel resources is not sustainable and the production, generation and distribution of energy is a primary driver of greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing climate change. While there is a shift towards the use of renewable energy sources (wind, solar, hydropower), the transition is not happening fast enough to mitigate climate change. Several participants of the 2023 Green Action Week focused their campaigns on supporting the transition to renewables.
Bringing about sustainable consumption relies on significantly reducing and eventually eliminating waste. Waste refers to anything that is discarded through the production cycle or after consumption. If not reused, recycled or upcycled, waste (clothing, food, electronic, plastic packaging etc.) accumulates in landfills and natural spaces. As waste decomposes over time – and for some products that could be several lifetimes – it releases chemicals and other compounds into the air, soil and water bodies. These pose a health risk – to people and to ecosystems. The circular economy approach focuses on reusing and recycling resources to make the most of them throughout their lifecycle. Many Green Action Week campaigns focused on reducing and recycling waste and boosting a circular economy approach.