Here are some of our most popular Action Challenges for you and your class to join in - try one or try them all! If you are looking for other Action Challenge resources, please contact us.

1. Commuter Challenge

Use sustainable transportation as much as possible to help reduce the amount of air pollution and green house gases being released into the atmosphere.

2. Write a Letter

Your challenge is to write a letter to tell someone how you feel about an issue or idea.

3. Eco-Art

Your challenge is to make a piece of art out of something that regularly would have been thrown away or recycled.

4. Waste Watchers

Your class has been challenged to analyze and reduce the amount of waste it produces on a weekly basis.

5. Create A Compost

How to make a worm compost that can be kept inside your classroom!

6. Clothing Quest

Have you ever really paid attention to the clothes that you wear? What country were they made in? What materials were used to make them?  This challenge could be done for clothing, or for any other product or food.

7. Anti-Idling

Idling is when a car is left running, and it is not moving anywhere.  Vehicle exhaust emissions are a mjor cause of air pollution.  Idling is not only a waste of fuel and money, it's also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

8. Community Cleanup

By cleaning up your local community you are helping to protect animals and their habitats as well as keeping our water clean.  At the same time you are helping to keep the Earth beautiful!

9. Forest friendly Journals

By making journals from previously used materials you  are saving trees by reusing paper, and stopping materials from going to he landfill or having to be recycled.

10. HASTE Commuter Challenge

HASTE is a hub for groups taking action on reducing school transportation emissions in BC.  It's a resource and networking centre to help improve the health of individuals, communities and the environment.

11. Waste Free Lunch

It has been estimate that on average a single school-aged child generates 67 pounds of lunchtime waste per school year.  That's 18,760 pounds of lunch waste per average-sized elementary school.