Day 8: Joining campaigns & showing support

It's been a long, hard day today, I actually finished off all the chocolate ice-cream this evening, that's how full on it's been.

So I need a quick and easy step for today, and when I think of quick and easy I immediately think of online petitions. It is a very passive and perhaps lazy thing to do to sign a petition and forget about it, but if I look at it positively, I'll be one more person helping to get a message heard.

If you want to really know the state of the world, go to change.org and just look at all the causes. I had no idea half of this stuff was going on! I've gone with a selection of UK and American ones:

- Dunkin Donuts stop using Styrofoam cups. DD sell 1.5bn cups of coffee every year in styrofoam cups. A chemical used in making styrofoam called hydrofluorocarbons that can trap up to 1,000 times more heat than CO2. And if there are too many hydrofluorocarbons in the sky, global warming will be a bigger problem. It also takes up 25% of landfill space.

- Supporting limits on climate pollution from oil & gas companies. No surprises that oil and gas companies argue that there's no need for imposing limits as they'll voluntarily lower dangerous greenhouse emissions. The truth is, fewer than one percent of producers have participated in the EPA's voluntary climate pollution reduction program for oil & gas. We need a national limit.

- stop the unnecessary death of 50,000 sea turtles every year from shrimp nets.Turtle Excluder Devices installed on fishermen's trawlers have proved to be 97% effective. Simply make them compulsory!

- Take a stand against illegal fishing.  Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing of creatures such as sharks, tuna and sea turtles is a key driver of global overfishing. It threatens both marine ecosystems as well as food and regional security.

That's all I have time for tonight but there are so many more worthy causes out there!