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I promise to always turn off the tap when brushing my teeth and washing dishes. I promise to have less plastic waste.

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I pledge to plant more trees to help the environment.

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I pledge to be kind to our environment. I can do this by planting trees and flowers, taking care of plants, saving water, ETC. To make this world a better I will try to find and do ways to make our environment a safe place for everyone. 😊

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Pledge for the Environment - 05 Blakely Chua

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Pledge for the Environment - 05 Blakely Chua

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I pledge to preserve my environment in my own little ways, like turning off the shower head while I am showering. I could also turn off the lights or the television when I am not using it. I will also discourage my family to buy unnecessary things to reduce our use of plastic. I hope that our Earth will become healthier and more natural for all our future generations.

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I pledge to never litter in public and to not waste water.

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I promise that I will turn off electronics when I am done using them. I will also use reusable materials. I will also plant more plants and not eat too much meat for the animals.

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I pledge to help the environment by picking up trash, using eco-bags instead of the plastic bags cashiers give, watering house plants, saving water, using the seeds from fruits to make more plants and trees, etc. We can also follow the three R's.(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) These little steps can help our mother earth majorly. It will also make mother earth a safer and better place for everyone. 🍀😊

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I pledge to do not litter and to save as much water and electricity I can.

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I promise that I will never leave the faucet running when I am not using it. I promise to never leave anything on unless if there is someone using it. I promise to use less plastic.

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I promise to help take care of the environment by saving electricity and water, planting more trees, and not littering.

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I pledge to always practice the 3 R’s also to pick up trash I will not litter anywhere and I will plant more trees.

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I promise to to throw my trash in the right trash can. I promise to to save water by turning off the faucet while I am brushing my teeth etc. Finally, I promise to plant more trees.

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I promise to save water, use Ecobags, and do many things that can be good for the environment.

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I pledge to reduce, reuse and recycle. I can do proper waste segregation. Lastly, I can save water!

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I pledge to avoid wasting water as much as possible.

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I pledge to help our environment. I can do this by planting trees and plants. don't put trush on the ground. saving water. I can recycle items. And I wish every one can do this. our erth will be a beter place to live.(●'◡'●)

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I promise to do help the environment by doing these simple things, Taking shorter showers, turn off the faucet while I am brushing my teeth, turn off the lights if not used, don't use plastic bags and straws and recycling.

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I promise not to waste water. I also promise not to throw my garbage anywhere I go.

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I pledge to reduce, reuse, and recycle so that we can conserve natural resources. I can also pledge to volunteer at cleanups in my community. We should also buy less plastic and use reusable shopping bags instead. And lastly, we can pledge to have a fundraiser to be able to purchase EM mud balls because these can prevent the growth of algae giving farmers and fishermen clear and healthy water to fish in.

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I pledge to always take care of the environment around me, to always throw my trash in the trash can instead of throwing it on the ground and to always be wary of my environment, and encourage the other people around me to take care of the environment as well.

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I pledge to help keep the environment safe by recycling plastic, paper and etc., planting/growing plants, saving water by taking short baths and turning off the faucet when not being used, carpooling or using transportations that do not include gas nor produce smoke, using reusable stuff & using electricity when needed only.

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My pledge to Mother Earth is that I will always refrain from using plastic bags and use eco bags instead. I shouldn't throw my trash anywhere. I also shouldn't waste electricity to prevent burning fossil fuels. I should educate other people so they can do the same .

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I promise to help save the encironment by recycling, saving water, and saving electricity.

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I pledge to help the conservation and protection of the environment by recycling our trash, reusing bags we get from malls and grocery stores, conserve water, and save electricity. I can also educate other people to do the same thing because doing these simple ways can make a huge difference to our environment and to us, humans. Let's do our very best to protect our environment!

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I promise to throw trash in to the right bins, recycle plastic, help clean beaches and rivers, plant trees and flowers, etc.

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I pledge to Donate my plastic bottles to the recycling factory. I will not open air conditioning all the time instead I will use manual or electric fan. I will post presentations to inspire people .

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I pledge to save the environment. I can do this by throwing trash in the right bin, using eco friendly bags like paper bags instead of plastic bags, and by saving electricity.

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I pledge to help our environment by:
1. Conserving water and using it wisely.
2. Using reusable utensils while eating.
3. Throw my trash properly in the garbage bin.
We only have one earth so lets take care of it! 😉

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I pledge to keep our environment clean by throwing our trash in the bin, instead of throwing them everywhere. We can also use a reusable bag for our groceries or when we buy something.

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I promise that the conservation and protection of the environment will start right in our homes. I will remind all the family members to practice garbage segregation.

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I will unplug all the wires im not using and i will return plastic spoons and forks.

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I pledge to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, pick up trash if it is where it does not belong, not waste resources and turn off appliances when not in use. I pledge to help make the world a safer, cleaner, and healthier world for us to live in!

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I pledge to take care of the world that God has given us. I promise to care for it, and to protect it as much as I can. I will try to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as I can. I will try to be more conscious of my activities and how it could affect the environment. I promise to nurture our plants and conserve on our natural resources.

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I promise that I will use the 3 R's, picking up the trash, using eco-bags instead of plastic bags, watering plants, using reusable packaging such as lunch boxes and reusable water bottles and coffee mugs, and avoid taking cars as much as possible. These steps are very easy to do. This will help Mother Earth a better place. 😊🌳

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I promise to always reuse, reduce, recycle and avoid plastic as much as I can. I’ll always conserve water, and I’ll support local farms by buying from them.

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I pledge to influence other people to care for the environment. I will lessen my carbon footprint by walking instead of riding a car for short distance travel, turning off water and electricity when not in use, bring and use eco bags/water bottles and not use plastic.

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To help the environment I promise to save water use electricity when needed and reduce the use of plastic.

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I pledge to help our environment by:
1. Biking to the place im going to, to reduce air pollution.
2. Picking up trash I see and recycle it if possible but if not, I will throw them away into proper trash bins
3. Use electricity wisely

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I pledge myself to help and take care the environment such as taking care of the plants, throwing trash to the right bin nd more until I get older.

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I pledge to always throw the trash in the right bin and i will not step on the flowers and plants outside.

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Association for Psychological Science - APS

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Earth Day was first observed in 1970 to mark the beginnings of the modern environmental movement, and it has since gone global. Today, it is the most widely acknowledged secular observance in the world, motivating more than a billion people each year to fight for a clean environment.

In recognition of Earth Day 2022, this April 22, we have collected and summarized flash talks presented at the APS 2021 Virtual Convention that discuss the effects of nature-assisted rehabilitation on mental health, the risks of air pollution exposure during childhood, the motivations behind climate-related discussions, and more.

Read research on the environment and climate change in the APS archive.

Radical Pro-Environmental Change as Loss: A Qualitative Study of How Degrowth Is Perceived Within a French-Speaking Swiss Sample
Robert Arthur Thomas Avery and Fabrizio Butera (University of Lausanne)
Avery and Butera provided participants with a pamphlet from a fictional environmental group that emphasized the need for radical, pro-environmental action to fight climate change. The researchers then measured the extent to which participants perceived the needed action as existential loss (i.e., loss of meaning in the world). They found that after participants evaluated the action's efficiency, they rarely explicitly mentioned any type of loss. But participants did voice a fear of losing certain freedoms and comforts that would lower their quality of life, as well as a fear that extreme measures could breed unbearable losses (e.g., population control would cause dire consequences for a stable population).

This study was foundational to the research in Avery's thesis. "Specifically, it allowed me to determine two major components of the perception of degrowth-oriented policies that we were then able to implement and test in further experimental manipulations," Avery told APS. These major components, "that degrowth is considered as a threat and that men and women's responses towards that threat differ," could contribute to future research on the topic.

Childhood Air Pollution Exposure and the Risk of Mental Illness at the Transition to Adulthood

Aaron Reuben, Terrie E Moffitt (Duke University), Louise Arseneault, and Fisher Helen (King's College London)

Air pollution is a globally present toxicant mix that may injure the central nervous system, but associations with psychopathology are poorly characterized, Reuben and colleagues wrote. Using data from a representative longitudinal birth cohort that was followed from birth to age 18, the authors found that early-life air pollution exposure elevates the risk of general psychopathology-regardless of individual, family, and neighborhood psychiatric and sociodemographic factors.

"Our findings identified early-life air pollution as a nonspecific risk factor for later development of mental illness, meaning overall liability to mental illness writ large is elevated," Reuben told APS. "As an outgrowth of this finding, we have become interested in genotypic differences that may account for how this mental-illness liability is expressed. We are exploring the use of polygenic risk scores to identify genetic liabilities and better approach causal inference."

Mental Illness and Going Back to Nature: A Pilot Study on the Effects of Nature-Assisted Rehabilitation on Patients' Health and Personality

Danilo Garcia, Daniel Wallin, Björn N. Persson, and Erik Lindskär (Region Blekinge)

In a quasi-experimental pilot study, Garcia and colleagues invited 10 psychiatric patients to undergo a 10-week nature-assisted rehabilitation intervention and 10 control-group patients to engage in 12 weeks of talk-therapy interventions. The authors found that patients in the nature-assisted intervention showed significant reductions in their tendencies to feel worried or pessimistic, whereas patients in the control group demonstrated reductions in impulsivity and disorderliness.

Although their research was a pilot study, the authors "have been discussing the importance of acknowledging that our health is not only biopsychosocial in nature, but that Earth's ecology is closely linked to our health," Garcia said. "To promote health in the 21st century, we need to be close to nature."

Identifying and Leveraging Social Norm Networks Guiding Energy Use in the US and India

Rohini Majumdar, Gregg Sparkman, Elke Weber (Princeton University), and Radhika Khosla (University of Oxford)

Using new community detection techniques (e.g., exploratory graph analysis), Majumdar and colleagues mapped "social norms" in residents' environmental attitudes and energy usage in two U.S. and two Indian states. Through these techniques, the researchers found cultural variations in norm clusters that could help tailor culturally sensitive climate-change interventions.

"The insights we gained from the cross-cultural norm networks study indicate that the optimal intervention in one cultural context may not work equally well in a different context," Majumdar told APS. "We are currently running experiments to compare the effectiveness of the optimal intervention strategies identified using the two unique norm networks in both cultural contexts."

Socialized Power: A Hindrance Against Millennial Attitude Change Towards Sustainability Values

Ethan Katz-Zeitlin, Kaspar Philipp Schattke, and Andreea Gavrila (Université du Québec à Montréal)

To study the effects of for-profit companies' "greenwashing" (behaviors designed to deceive people into feeling positively about an organization's environmental practices), Katz-Zeitlin and colleagues investigated the effect of activity inhibition (AI; the capacity to regulate negative emotions) and power motive (the desire to have an impact) on attitude change among millennials exposed to polarizing website communications.

Findings indicated that individuals who displayed higher levels of AI and socialized power motive-the desire to exert influence for others' benefit-were less susceptible to attitude change from external influences, including deceptive website language from organizations that greenwash.

The study, Katz-Zeitlin said, identified "personality traits that may be protective against attitudinal change resulting from greenwashing." The study also led him to research greenwashing from a different perspective. "My current project seeks to empirically investigate how employees are affected when their company engages in greenwashing. More specifically, my colleagues at the Université de Québec à Montréal and I are attempting to demonstrate that greenwashing has a negative effect on an employee's sense of engagement, but this relation is less so for an employee with more materialistic values."

Climate Denial Fuels Climate-Change Discussions More Than Local Climate-Related Disasters

Miti Shah, Sarah Seraj, and James W. Pennebaker (The University of Texas at Austin)

Shah, Seraj, and Pennebaker conducted a study to determine when people are more likely to engage in collective action for climate change and how their level of engagement varies according to the type of event taking place.

Using language from online political discussions on Reddit, the researchers explored specific events that motivate conversations about climate change. They found that political events, especially those that involve leaders who deny climate change, are more likely to motivate and sustain climate-change engagement than local life-threatening natural disasters or global policy events.

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Psychological scientists are studying how we're all weathering a warming planet.

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Video: Observing Earth Day With Psychological Science

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Earth Day was first observed in 1970 to mark the beginnings of the modern environmental movement, and it has since gone global. Today, it is the most widely acknowledged secular observance in the world, motivating more than a billion people each year to fight for a clean environment.

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I pledge to take care and clean the environment, to help beach clean ups and clean the trash around me. I could also help by throwing trash in the right garbage bin, and I can reduce reuse and recycle my trash and not throwing trash on the ground.

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I pledge to practice the 5 Rs. I will save water and electricity. I will carpool or use public transport. I will use echo bags too.

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I pledge to how you can help in the conservation and protection of the environment. By

Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. ...

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Conserve water. ...

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Plant a tree.

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Pledge for the Environment  -19 Reese Lutanco

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Pledge for the Environment  -19 Reese Lutanco

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I promise to always try to use eco-bags to reduce the use of plastic bags. I will also throw trash in a bin, not everywhere.

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I pledge that I will start using echo bag instead of plastic bad,turning off my lights when not in use is very important. I will use less water when taking a bath and when washing my hands. I will do good to earth.

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I pledge that I will get the trash from the road and throw it in the trash can.

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I pledge to help take care of the environment by saving water, plant more trees and flowers, etc.

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I pledge to keep the world clean and save as much by saving water, electricity and stop pollution.

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I pledge that I will plant trees, won't litter trash and properly throw thrash to help with our environment.

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I pledge to keep the environment safe by reusing our trash and not to use too much plastic. Instead of plastic bags, my family uses eco-bags.

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I pledge to keep the environment in a healthy condition. I will prevent from doing activities that produce unhealthy products. I can avoid this by carpooling, re-using bags, saving electricity, and saving water. Simply educating people can make a big change for the world. Our actions affect our future generations, let's try our best to conserve all the living things on this earth. One action affects the world, we can only hope it affects us in a good way.

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I pledge to do the 5 Rs, plant more trees, not to throw trash on the streets & Grow more flowers

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I pledge to protect the environment by reducing, reusing and recycling. I can also use both sides of the paper, walk to nearby places instead of using a vehicle and turning off the lights when I am not in the room. Lastly, I can use the fan more than the aircon to save electricity.

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I would take care of the environment by planting plants, saving food and water, recycling and saving electricity

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I pledge to conserve water and electricity. I will also use recyclable bag when going to the grocery and shopping to help the environment.

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I, Rhia Yao, pledge to always take care of the environment, by throwing trash in the right trash cans, planting plants, walking, biking or carpooling whenever I need to go somewhere, reusing, reducing, recycling, refusing, and rethinking trash.

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I pledge to start recycling, reusing, reducing, and recovering as much as possible. I will also pick up any litter, even if it's not mine. I will try to heal the damage we have done to Mother Earth.

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My pledge to the environment is to always take  good care of it, spread happiness and joy, I promise to not throw trash into the streets beaches etc. I promise to always be good to my environment treat it with love and care and inspire others too! By starting now. I can recycle my trash to make some artwork or useful things that can help in the house. I can try to save not only on land but also in the sea where fish die because of trash, the best way for me to help that problem is to pick up trash near the ocean. And I will try to do all of this for the environment, I promise. Because our environment  and nature is the reason our world is so beautiful.

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I pledge to practice the 5 Rs, planting more trees, using eco bags instead of plastic bags, and to save water and electricity at all times.

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I pledge to reduce the trash in the world by instead of throwing away the trash I have at home, I will maybe try to turn it into decoration, toys, school supplies and etc. I pledge to also never smoke in the future to reduce the pollution in the air.

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I pledge to recycle my plastic bottles so that i can make potion bottles. I will also turn off the light when i leave the room and turn off the tap when brushing my teeth.

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I pledge to keep the environment clean and healthy by recycling my trash, planting trees or plants and using less electricity.