The author of education book Switch on Sustainability will share her tips and tricks to help individuals lead a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle during a workshop on Tuesday night.

Ms O'Dwyer said a lack of federal government action to address climate change meant it was important individuals felt empowered to make change.

"I think a lot of people feel really disempowered. If you look at the big picture it is quite depressing. The government is not interested in the environment at all," she said.

"We sit there and wait for the government to make change and of course we just can't afford to do that anymore. We need to take matters into our own hands and empower ourselves. This is our backyard. Let's take care of it the way we can.

"We can take action and responsibility for our lives and the waste we create. There are so many things we do have power over to change. We need to be doing whatever we can to reduce our footprint."

Ms O'Dwyer's comments come after more than 1000 people took to the streets in Ballarat last week, joining hundreds of thousands of people around the world on a global day of protests to urge governments to take a stronger stance in mitigating the climate crisis.

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In national media this week, Sir David Attenborough and leading climate scientists slammed Prime Minister Scott Morrison's support for new coal mines and lack of action on climate change.

The Climate Council said Australia's emissions reduction targets were among the weakest of developed nations.

Morrison did not attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit held in New York earlier this week, where 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a scathing and powerful speech against world leader's inaction on climate change.

She said young people would never forgive world leaders if they failed to keep global temperature rises below 1.5 degrees.

"We need to act as though our house is on fire," she said.

Watch Great Thunberg's speech to the United Nations below.

Morrison responded by declaring the climate change debate is subjecting Australian children to "needless anxiety".

Ms O'Dwyer said locally in Ballarat and the region, residents could address their anxiety by making change in their own lives.

"It is anxious people who know they need to do something but feel disempowered; they are the ones I want to target," she said.

"So many people are starting to feel really uncomfortable about what is happening."

Ms O'Dwyer will share tips at the workshop on Tuesday focusing on low cost or no cost changes.

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She will talk about Repair Cafes as an option to repair broken items, how to be sustainable on special occasions like Christmas, how buying bulk can save money, time and waste, composting, how to reduce food miles by growing your own or shopping at farmers markets and more.

"I like to remind people it doesn't always take a lot of money to make sustainable changes. There are a lot of little things we can do along the way to reduce our footprint that we can fit into a busy lifestyle and a tight budget," she said.

Ms O'Dwyer's Sustainability: Keeping It Simple workshop will be held from 6pm to 8.30pm on Tuesday at Platypus Coworking Ballarat.

Visit the event page for more details and tickets.

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