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Help Make Change: Tips for Encouraging Others

How Do You Encourage Others to Go Green?

If you’re dedicated to helping make sustainable change, you will wonder how to encourage others. You want them to make some changes themselves. Depending on their inclination and your relationship to them, this can be challenging, yet it can also feel very urgent. The tips below can guide you in talking to your friends, family, and work colleagues. They can also encourage them to take steps toward a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Help make Real Change

Still passionately you feel about the big change that a person need help to make. So whether that’s avoiding air travel, installing solar panels on their house, or turning to a vegan diet. All realize you’re not going to convince most people by making these suggestions. I mean straight out of the gate. Instead, start small. Your best friend will not be ready to give up their annual vacation to Hawaii. Yet, they will be convinced to carpool with you to work. Your in-laws will agree to turn down the thermostat a few degrees. You will also convince your family to have meatless days a couple of times each week.

Show Cost Savings at Work

As a fleet manager, you are well aware of the message about electric cars better for the environment. Yet, these are not just a cleaner choice. Because EVs are also fuel-efficient, you can show that they can lower operating expenses. You can also highlight the importance of informing customers about your sustainable fleet. This is especially valuable if it helps you keep up with competitors or sets you apart from them.

Remember the Power of Persuasion to Help Make Change

If you’re passionate about the environment, you want to help make real change. It can be hard not to harangue people. The problems can seem so urgent. It can be tough to see how others don’t recognize this urgency. They will not want to take immediate action. If you truly want lasting change, focus on persuasion. Bring others around to your point of view through it.

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The Green Living Guy, Seth Leitman is an independent power producer, a green living expert, and Editor of the McGraw-Hill, TAB Green Guru Guides. Seth is also an Author, Radio Host, Reporter, Writer and an Environmental Consultant on green living. The Green Living Guy writes about green living, green lighting, the green guru guides and more. Seth's books range from: # Build Your Own Electric Vehicle by Bob Brant and Seth Leitman (2nd and 3rd editions) # Build Your Own Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle by Seth Leitman # Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle by Carl Vogel # Green Lighting by Seth Leitman, Brian Clark Howard and Bill Brinsky # Solar Power For Your Home by David Findley # Renewable Energies For Your Home by Russel Gehrke # Do-it-Yourself Home Energy Audits by David Findley # Build Your Own Small Wind Power System by Brian Clark Howard and Kevin Shea # and more green living books to follow.

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