Seven Actions to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
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Lobby your elected officials for policies that drastically cut our CO2 emissions
Purchase renewable electricity
This animation literally draws you a picture of climate change and how to reduce your CO2 footprint. It’s brilliant!
Purchase renewable electricity
Lobby your elected officials for policies that drastically cut our CO2 emissions
Purchase renewable electricity
Most local utilities in the United States offer Green Electricity to their customers. To understand how renewable power works, see this short video from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: There is more information about how to most effectively choose green electricity on this website at “Renewable Electricity."
Lobby your elected officials for policies that drastically cut our CO2 emissions
Lobby your elected officials for policies that drastically cut our CO2 emissions
Lobby your elected officials for policies that drastically cut our CO2 emissions
See "Get Involved" for some of the organizations that are working for policies that will cut CO2 emissions. If you are interested in learning the nuts and bolts about the legislative process, and how to effectively influence your members of Congress look at the bipartisan Citizens Climate Lobby website.
Photo: by Matt H. Wade of U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Is Your Money Financing The Fossil Fuel Industry?
Reduce the amount of meat and dairy that you consume
Reduce the amount of meat and dairy that you consume
NEW! “Banking on Climate Change” Fossil Fuel Report Card 2020
Is your bank on the list of top fossil fuel financiers? If you have an account with one of the big banks, chances are you will find it on the list. Since the Paris Agreement to limit climate change was adopted, 35 global banks have financed fossil fuels with $2.7 trillion U.S. dollars. The authors of this report find “that overall bank financing continues to be aligned with climate disaster.” If you find your bank on the list, consider fighting climate breakdown by changing your bank to one that is not on the list financing the expansion of fossil fuels. If you do change banks, let your old bank know why you broke up with them.
Reduce the amount of meat and dairy that you consume
Reduce the amount of meat and dairy that you consume
Reduce the amount of meat and dairy that you consume
To make a large contribution to reducing your carbon footprint and improving biodiversity, reduce your meat and dairy consumption. Eliminating red meat is also a win for your health. The link to the article below relates the details of a study in the journal Science explaining how meat and dairy consumption impacts climate and the planet.
Learn More: (Source: The Guardian, May 31, 2018) "Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth”
Fly/Drive/Consume Less
Reduce the amount of meat and dairy that you consume
Fly/Drive/Consume Less
We are all different. Find where you burn the most fossil fuel and reduce your carbon footprint by focusing on those areas. Perhaps you don’t fly but drive a lot or keep your home heated to 75 degrees in the winter or cooled to 65 degrees in the summer and don’t use energy efficient light bulbs. This short Canadian video made by the Province of British Columbia will give you some suggestions for reducing your carbon footprint starting today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTfgNFz1DBM You can calculate your carbon foot print with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tool at at https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/ For more a more in depth understanding of climate change science and many ideas on how you can cut your carbon footprint and move towards a net neutral lifestyle, read Peter Kalmus’ book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
Tell others what you are doing
Let them know they, too, have the power to become a climate hero. Tell them about ClimateHeroLife.org
This video gives valuable advice about how to have a discussion about climate change without turning off the person you want share with.