100 Ways to Save the Planet

Tom Jordan has written about travel, exploration and nature for multiple books and publications. He has also created hugely popular geographical adventure stories for children’s TV. He lives a skimming stone’s throw from the glorious Peak District.

Gardens & wildlife

Let the grass grow

Go wild

Make a window box

Build a bug hotel

Turn over a new leaf

Make a bird feeder

The Big Birdwatch

Moth safari

Grow your own food

Community allotment

Build a hedgehog house

Make a wildlife corridor

Make a wormery

Compost

Grow your own herbs

Make a sunflower height chart

At home

Sell some stuff

Check the logos

Upcycle

Switch on to switching off

Recycle

Turn your heating down one degree

Eco choices – food, products, energy

Measure your (carbon) footprint

Make a carbon diary

The big cook-up

The big cook-up (part two

The big cook-up (part three)

Say no to nurdles!

No palm oil

Packed-lunch reboot

Measure your carbon footprint

Make your own recipe book

Bin ban

Battery amnesty

Darn it! (learn to fix clothes)

Turn off the taps



Water-based things

Put drinking water out for animals

Get your butt out!

Make a magic pond

Fewer flushes

Get mucky, stay mucky

Green hair day/week





Community

Library of Things – share and engage in the circular economy

Start a neighbourhood allotment

Litter pick up

Clean up a wild patch – a school project to transform an area into a green oasis

Rewild a public space/your school/your work

Community cook up

Repair co-operative

School seed bank

Verdant verges

Start a green gang

Make and share a nature documentary

Find an eco pen pal from another country

Shape the future - get into politics

Make an illustrated wildlife map of your area



Nature and wellbeing

Make an illustrated wildlife map of your area

Have a ‘phone off/TV off/console off’ day

Take a friend with you on a nature walk

Explore a tree

Go exploring in your neigbourhood

Adopt an animal

Adopt a pet plant





Art challenge (the more you learn about the more you care)

Learn your birds

Learn your bugs

Learn your trees

Learn your critters

Learn your wild flowers

Make wild works of art (using sticks, leaves, pebbles, sand).

Make a nature necklace

Reduce plastic poster

Recycle & Reuse poster

Renewable energy poster

Design a green city



Transport

Travel by foot/bike

Car share

Be bike buddies

Outdoors

Read the clouds

Stargaze

Scavenger hunt



Think like a…

Think like a panda (brush your teeth with a bamboo toothbrush)

Think like a squirrel (store seasonal food to eat over the winter/plant tree seeds around your garden)

Think like an ant (stronger together)

Think like a bee… hive mind

Think like a beaver (rewilding effect of beavers)

Think like an elephant (make a waterhole)

Think like a butterfly (help pollination

Think like a dormouse

Think like a bat

Think like a bee

Think like a sloth

Think like an orang-utan

Think like a termite



Be more …

Be more Japanese (litter picking)

Be more Costa Rican (home choices)

Be more Swedish (plogging)

Be more Danish (community)

Be more Dutch (transport)

Be more Norwegian (open air life)