The document discusses the vulnerability of the planet due to humanity's unsustainable use of natural resources and production of waste. The atmosphere and oceans are warming due to increased greenhouse gases while ice and snow amounts diminish. Individual choices around food, water, transportation, waste, and energy have a significant impact on ecological footprint and the environment. Small groups of committed individuals have the power to create positive change.

1. The supreme reality of our time
is ...the vulnerability of our planet.
- John F. Kennedy

2. Today humanity uses the equivalent of
1.5 planets to provide the resources we
use and absorb our waste

3. They are disappearing.
We depend on our natural resources for our survival…

4. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate
equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
Yet…
How much water do we use in a day?

5. Something doesn’t add up…

6. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the
amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea
level has risen, and the concentrations of
greenhouse gases have increased
-IPCC Fifth Assessment

7. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal…
many of the observed changes are
unprecedented over decades to millennia.
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8. What Now?

10. Ec-o-log-i-cal foot-print
noun:
1. the impact of a person or community on the environment,
expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of
natural resources.
We influence the size of our ecological
footprint by our daily choices

11. What can individuals do to
create change?
Make a choice.

12. Choose your food…

13. Choose your water…

14. Choose your transportation…

15. Choose your waste…

16. Choose your energy…

17. Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it's the only
thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

19. Your Move.

20. Credits
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