{"id":5311,"date":"2019-09-16T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T08:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"our-everyday-choices-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/16\/our-everyday-choices-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Everyday Choices Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By the UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone can be a changemaker\u2026 what is your anatomy of action?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\n2050, the world\u2019s population will reach a whopping 10 billion people, and with\nmore people comes more consumption\u2014of food, fashion, travel\u2026 In a world\nstretched thin for resources and under the threat of global climate change, it\nis high time we, as individuals, make choices that move us away from a\ntake-make-waste economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfuture is made up of the cumulative outcomes of our actions today. The way we\nmove, what food we eat and how we treat our clothes are all crucial to\ndetermining the impact we have on the planet. We are all citizen designers,\nwith the power to effect positive change through our everyday actions, no\nmatter who we are, or where we live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how do we know which actions to focus on? Individuals can make more sustainable choices in everyday decisions while asking governments and companies for more information and options. With 2 to 3 billion new consumers coming online in the near future\u2014most of them young and in urban contexts\u2014harnessing the power of today&#8217;s trendsetters and tomorrow&#8217;s decision-makers could be the game-changer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/our-everyday-choices-matter\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment Everyone can be a changemaker\u2026 what is your anatomy of action? By 2050, the world\u2019s population will reach a whopping 10 billion people, and with more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}