One Planet Week ^© is an initiative of OzGreen to motivate people to live sustainably. In one planet week, participants will live for the week with a significantly reduced ecological footprint. This will involve actions such as walking or riding a bike to work, buying no packaged goods and eating local produce.

Your ecological footprint is a measure of the amount of land needed to supply the resources you consume and store the waste you generate. The average Australian ecological footprint is 7.8 global hectares per person. If the whole world lived the lifestyle of the average Australian we would need the resources of over 4 planets!

ARRCC is working with OzGreen to promote One Planet Week amongst our members and supporters. We encourage you to get involved and try to live for one week, as if there was just one planet for all of us!

Get involved

Being involved in One Planet Week is easy! You can do it on your own, or get members of your faith community involved! Just follow these 4simple steps:

1. Sign up to One Planet Week by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  and tell us who is taking part.
     
2. Download the One Planet Week checklist below and choose your actions. (Many of the actions will require some forward planning! You might need to sit down and plan your meals, where you are getting your groceries and what appointments you have and schedule your trips.)
    
3. During One Planet Week try to do or start as many of the actions as possible, and tick these off your checklist as you go. (You might want to put up reminders on doors, the fridge, near light switches, etc).
     
4. One the week is over, write to us to let us know how you went! We have some beautiful People and Planet Diaries and Calendars to give away to those with the best stories! You can also share your thoughts and experiences on ARRCC's facebook page!
       

Download the checklist

Click here to download the checklist. (Don't forget to sign up by emailing us!)

One Planet week is copyright © by OzGreen (www.ozgreen.org) 2012