A Year in a Day

A Year in a Day Citizen Science Project

Working together to restore planetary health urgently
30 March: 3 months, 456 actions, 72 contributors
STEP 1: 365 actions – achieved in 2.5 months!!!
STEP 2: Let’s try for 365 actions in one day 
on World Health Day 7 April 2022
Share your action, or actions, for World Health Day here
Need ideas? Get ideas for what to do and see what we’ve already done here 

To respond to the urgency of the need for everyone to do more to restore planetary health, the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative’s Pluriversity has initiated a Citizen Science Project in 2022 called ‘A Year in a Day’.

We’d love you to join us. If, in one day, we can inspire 365 of us to do something more, something we wouldn’t ordinarily do, to restore planetary health, we will achieve the action of a whole year in one day.

We hope you get inspired to contribute by reading them here. Share your actions on our blog or our social media.

Each day someone from the Planetary Health Initiative will be blogging about one additional action we’ve taken. We’ll also be suggesting ways that Blue Mountains City Council can support you to take an action.  

We are exploring whether the small actions of individuals can have an impact if we all work together – and what those impacts might be. We’re starting from the premise that every organisation, every business, every government and every community is made up of individuals, and change has to start somewhere! We can all help one another mobilise to restore planetary health and share the many different ways it’s possible do this. By sharing and collaborating, we’ll also learn new ways to create stronger communities, new ways to create livelihoods that restore planetary health, and new ways to protect, restore and regenerate the natural systems of which we are a part, and on which the health of all life depends.

Imagine if we began to do this every day of the year …. we could rapidly create a much better present and an even better future! We really would be restoring planetary health.

We don’t expect you to do something every day, but you can help us spread the word so that as many people as possible can contribute – even just one small action.

Let us know the day you took your action so we can add it to our tally.

 

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February 24

24/02/2022
The Perfect Storm and the Perfect Antidote Today felt like the perfect storm …. globally and locally. It was a day of extreme overwhelm. The international crisis of Russia invading Ukraine, and the local crises caused by torrential rainfall in the Blue Mountains … all overlaid with the ongoing pandemic. […]
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February 23

23/02/2022
The toothpaste dilemma? Oral care products can’t be accepted in your recycling bin. This includes toothpaste tubes and caps, manual toothbrushes, electric toothbrush heads, toothbrush and toothpaste tube plastic packaging, and floss containers.  So, for my action today, as I had to make a trip into Katoomba anyway, I dropped […]
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February 22

22/02/2022
Sashiko Denim Repair I wonder if anyone has worked out a way to measure the impact of sheer and unadulterated joy on planetary health? This afternoon I did something so unexpected and creative that I’m still basking in the afterglow! When my boys left home they also left behind a […]
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February 21

21/02/2022
There is no away! One of the most powerful statements I ever heard was You can’t throw anything away, there is no away! It’s a strong argument for stopping the production of toxic and poisonous substances so they won’t eventually enter our air, soil and waterways. Every time there’s a […]
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February 20

20/02/2022
Saying no to plastic shampoo bottles Despite all the viable alternatives, and my ongoing attempts to minimise single-use plastics, until today I’ve still continued to use shampoo in throw-away plastic bottles. Mark Twain once said: “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but […]
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February 19

19/02/2022
Act and Hope Will Come There are some very simple ways to contribute to A Year in a Day – the best way is to copy an action someone else has posted because it demonstrates that people’s actions have impact and each person can inspire another to act. Today I […]