Today is Our Future – Every Minute Counts!
🌍 Let’s ACT now!
Time is running out to save our planet and secure our future. While sustainable initiatives are growing, they can’t keep pace with the accelerating climate crisis. To truly make a difference, we need every individual to embrace sustainable living. Schools are the key to this transformation. We can drive the change our planet needs by empowering students, teachers, and parents to adopt sustainable practices in their daily lives.
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Why another sustainability initiative?
In January 2023, the Doomsday Clock is at 90 seconds to midnight – this is the closest the hand has been to midnight since the clock was created in 1947, and it has remained this close in 2024. This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists leaves the hands of the Doomsday Clock unchanged due to ominous trends that continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. Alongside these concerning factors, it is encouraging that the world is seeing record and surging investments in renewables.
Sustainability by definition is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
In my research into sustainability initiatives in the past couple of years, interacting with teachers, representatives, and student ambassadors, I have identified that the sustainability initiatives are not achieving their full intended long-term impact than the current levels to slow down or reverse the doomsday clock. Achieving sustainable impact means ensuring that the positive impact of an initiative on the lives of beneficiaries carries on after a project intervention has ended.
The Sustainable Development Goals’ current status is a mere 12% of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The newest Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 summarizes progress on the 2030 Agenda as a “stagnation in the face of multiple crises”. The hope and good intentions are there but there are gaps in execution. The consequences of these gaps between intent and execution are telling but not surprising.
How is “Today Is Our Future” different?
TodayIsOurFuture believes the only way to boost progress toward a sustainable future is by turning everyone into a sustainability champion. With over 8 billion people on Earth, we need both big-picture plans and hands-on actions to make sure no one is left out.
Schools are the best way to influence current and future generations, plus their communities. But what we learn about sustainability at school shouldn’t just stay there—it needs to continue at home and beyond. TodayIsOurFuture builds a system where parents, teachers, students, and local governments all work together, sharing the responsibility of making sustainable living a normal part of everyday life. Every action counts. These can be simple things like using less water, avoiding single-use plastics, or turning off lights when they’re not needed.
How will we make everyone a sustainable ambassador?
We need to realize that “Today Is Our Future” and we need to ACT (Awareness, Collaborate, Transform) now!
Every student in every school needs to be a sustainability champion. Many sustainability initiatives exist but are limited to a small percentage of passionate students. For example, the environmental club at my school has 20 students out of 2200 students at East Lake High School. Not all middle school and elementary schools have such clubs. This means a lost opportunity to make every student aware of sustainability from a young age and develop them into sustainability champions.