Step 3: Walk the talk – act green
Step 3.1
Get your whole family involved
• Shopping should be an enjoyable experience for your whole family. Everyone in your family needs to understand the
importance of being a green-smart shopper.
• Educate your children to empower them with the knowledge of being green-smart.
• Ask everyone in your family to provide feedback about their shopping experiences during and after visiting each
shopping mall and shop space. Your feedback to the shopping malls and shop spaces can help them to improve and
go greener.
Step 3.2
Share your experience with others
• Share your experience with others so that more people will be aware of the importance of being a green-smart
shopper.
• Encourage others to share their experience and to provide feedback to the shopping malls and shop spaces to help
them to improve and go greener.
Step 3.3
Be a green advocate
• Learn more about the importance of green building and how it will benefit you as a shopper by reading this Guide for a
better understanding.
• To make Hong Kong’s shopping malls and shop spaces go greener, everyone must support and participate in this
approach. So, it is important that you be involved as a Green Advocate as well. Every little step taken by you, your
family members, your children, your relatives, your friends and others you know will help make Hong Kong’s shopping
malls and shop spaces go greener.
Step 3.4
Reduce your
while shopping
An individual’s
is the direct effect one’s actions and lifestyle have on
the environment in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. In Hong Kong, almost all of
our electricity is generated from burning coal. Cars, buses and aeroplanes use fossil
fuels. From our use of electricity at home, travel, our diet to the clothes we wear, all
our actions involve emission of carbon dioxide and have a direct or indirect impact on
accelerating climate change.
&
Continue to read:
More details will be discussed
in:
Carbon emission
GREEN TIPS
“Every small step counts”
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Getting started to go green
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Quick Start Menu to go green
44 Hong Kong Green Shop Guide
