Why Go Green?

To lead healthy and safe lives, all living things depend on a clean environment free of pollution. Whether we realize it or not, each and every one of our actions impacts the environment. Sometimes we don’t realize how harmful our everyday behaviors and actions are on the environment.

Remember that no one person owns the environment and all of the natural resources it contains. Because these precious resources are utilized by everyone, the responsibility of taking care of them also belongs to everyone. Everyone can do something to help. Add everyone’s efforts up, and this can make a huge difference in protecting the environment.

Environmental Stewardship

Environmental stewardship is a fancy way to describe the responsibility you have for taking care of the environment and the planet to ensure your safety and the safety of future generations. The choices that you make today may continue to have an affect tomorrow, next week, next year, and into the future.

Everyone must play a part.

The act of taking care of the environment and all of its resources so that we may enjoy it in the future is an important part of environmental stewardship. Our planet has limited supplies of natural resources such as water and clean air that we need to be careful not to use up or damage, so it is important to make environmental stewardship part of the way we live each and every day.

No one person can protect the environment. But environmental stewardship can begin with you! What you do, combined with the actions others take to reduce impacts or protect the environment, all add up!


Becoming a Great Lakes Water Steward is next!