New Year Resolutions

[Boyd Roberts]

New Year Resolutions

New Year is often a time for making resolutions.
While these can be personal and private, we may find ourselves encouraged and supported to keep our resolutions if we make them public, or commit to them by making a pledge.

Two useful resources here:

1.    ThinkGlobal has started a campaign to encourage people to make small pledges to make changes in their lifestyle towards a more sustainable future.
https://www.wearedonation.com/campaigns/make-a-supplychange/

While the prioritised pledges in the front page of the campaign website are pitched at adults, there are many actions elsewhere that are appropriate to IGCA participants.
https://www.wearedonation.com/campaigns/make-a-supplychange/pledges...

This campaign is good because:

• The pledges are SMART -

• • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable
  • Relevant
  • Timed - for a limited period only - two months

• There is a good range of simple, manageable actions to pledge to do
• Pledges are flexible - you can choose to be more or less ambitious
• It is motivating because the environmental impact of each individual pledge is calculated in kgCO2
• it uses and introduces you to a platform - DoNation - that may be helpful in work with IGCA students 
• It makes participants part of something larger.

2. Oxfam Education has produced a teaching resource on new year resolutions - for 7-14 year olds.
   It focuses on global citizenship and encourages students to make individual resolutions and to work as a group to produce group/class resolutions.
   
   http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/new-years-resolutions-w...
   
   
   While considering new year resolutions, it is a good time to revisit the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - the world community’s  collective equivalent of new year resolutions.

http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-go...