My Lifestyle Serves as an Example for the Citizens of Tomorrow

This badge is awarded for completing the “Adopt a Sustainable Lifestyle” activity. While individual acts may seem small, they can inspire others to follow your example. Beyond industrial degradation, which is a major contributor, the Western way of living is equally responsible for environmental challenges and must adapt to foster meaningful change.
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Skills and experiences gained (according to GreenComp: The European Sustainability Competence Framework):
Ethical Awareness: By applying new principles and mottos to your lifestyle, you will create a personal ethical code grounded in environmental needs and urgencies. A balanced and sustainable lifestyle demonstrates your ability to raise awareness about current environmental challenges and take a stand against them in a peaceful and constructive manner. Through this new lifestyle, you will also develop empathy and a sense of global citizenship, demonstrating your understanding of the pressing issues of our time. 
Becoming a problem-solving individual: By researching ways to lead a fully sustainable life, you will train your mind to develop strategies and explore methods to consume less and minimise waste. This problem-solving approach will not only enhance your environmental practices but also equip you with strategic skills that can be applied to other areas of life, helping you tackle a variety of challenges effectively.
Discipline and Consistency: The ultimate goal is to transform sustainable practices into automatic behaviours. By cultivating the discipline to maintain eco-friendly habits over time, you will improve your overall self-discipline. This enhanced consistency will benefit other areas of your life, such as completing work-related tasks, delivering projects on time, and accomplishing duties that may initially seem challenging.
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This badge represents your ability to structure your daily life around environmentally friendly behaviours and habits. Individual eco-friendly actions align with European Youth Goal #10: A Sustainable Green Europe. The Cities of Learning Network celebrates young people’s initiatives and efforts to adopt sustainable behaviours. Although this badge addresses a long-term commitment to creating lasting habits, recognition will be given to individuals who demonstrate consistent adherence to eco-conscious practices at key milestones.

Tasks

Task no.1

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Conduct Personal Research and Identify Less Eco-Friendly Habits:
Task:  Create a list of all your regular lifestyle activities that could be considered unsustainable. These might include habits such as using a car instead of sustainable transport, relying on non-ecological lighting, or leaving lights on unnecessarily. Once you’ve identified these unsustainable behaviours, research and propose alternative solutions to reduce your CO2 emissions as much as possible. We recommend starting gradually rather than attempting to implement all changes at once. Progress slowly to ensure lasting adjustments.
Evidence: Upload a list of the initiatives you intend to adopt in your daily lifestyle. Explain how you plan to implement these changes, the approximate timeline for each, and why you consider them important. This step will help our team assess whether these measures are sustainable enough to earn the badge successfully.

Task no.2

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Repeat and Expand Your Sustainable Daily Routines Over a Month:
Task:  Practise your new sustainable habits consistently for a month. Keep weekly updates detailing which actions were effective and which need improvement. This will help you better understand potential challenges and identify practical solutions. If certain habits prove too difficult to maintain, consider pausing or modifying them rather than exhausting yourself. Overly strict routines can lead to frustration and abandonment of your efforts toward a sustainable lifestyle.
Evidence: Submit a one-page PDF summarising your daily habits over the month. Highlight which practices were successful, which require slower integration, and any adjustments you made. This reflection will help you address challenges and identify alternative approaches. For example, if commuting by car is unavoidable, consider options like teleworking a few days a week.

Task no.3

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Maintain Your Sustainable Habits for Two Consecutive Months: 
Task: Research suggests it takes an average of 66 days to adopt new habits and fully integrate them into your lifestyle. Therefore, we ask you to sustain these eco-friendly habits consistently for two months without interruption.
Evidence: Submit a final PDF report detailing your experience, reflecting on how these habits benefited you, and whether you plan to continue practising them. Even if you decide not to maintain these habits in the long term, the effort you invested in following them for two months will still be recognised with a badge. Your comments, feedback, and review of this process will also contribute to the development of future activities to support sustainable lifestyles.

Interest categories

Civic engagement

Activities

Adopt a Sustainable Lifestyle

Become a Part of a Greener, Sustainable Change

Organiser

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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