Tag Archives: 2013

Earth Hour 2013: I Will If You Will Challenge

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Every week we feature a fun and/or educational activity you can try at home or in the classroom. I Will If You Will is an Earth Hour campaign to encourage positive action for the environment. It empowers individuals, communities and organizations to share a commitment to the planet locally and globally.

Earth Hour Challenge

Photo credit: earthhour.org

The challenge is easy: simply make a promise to do something, big or small, and get a certain number of people to agree to commit to an ongoing action for the environment beyond observing Earth Hour. You set the required number of people to accept the challenge, then promise to do something once the challenge is met. Every challenge can make a difference.

Create or accept your own I Will If You Will challenge

If you accept or create challenge, we’d love to hear what it is and/or how it went in the comments!

Making Resolutions to Help Change the World

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Resolutions really run the gamut, from minute changes like switching to decaf coffee one cup a day, to huge efforts like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for a nonprofit organization.

Kilimanjaro

Photo courtesy of Heifer International.

While I’m not a very good resolution-maker nor -keeper, I do see the value in viewing each new year as a chance to do something different. Or, as Oprah Winfrey said, “to get it right.”

In this Forbes piece, here are five New Year’s Resolutions people make but don’t keep (and the corresponding five that are much more manageable). Lifehacker has 10 Strategies for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick.

What I’ve found in my life–and what I feel goes missing in articles like these–is that it’s far easier to keep resolutions that benefit others, rather than myself. Here are some ideas:

My resolutions for this year? Give birth to my second baby (okay, that’s kind of a cheater one, because that one’s happening soon with or without my resolution), and bring the readers of the Heifer Blog a new, interesting guest author every month.

What about you? What are your resolutions for 2013? Do any of them extend beyond yourself? Share them in the comments section below!