Top Ten climate change mitigation ACTIONS you can take
Sponsored by Renewables Investor Forum (RIF) and Citizens Climate Lobby-Santa Cruz (CCL-SC):
- Watch and learn from The Dirt on Climate Change and the Roundtable Panel Discussion, well-attended and engaging conversation from 12 August 2018 with extensive Q&A.
- Join your local CCL chapter — CitizensClimateLobby.org
- Pay attention to where your food comes from. Shop accordingly. Choose Organic when possible, and suppliers that are committed to practices that build healthy topsoils and environmental stewardship. Boycott the green-washers. More resources (books and videos) from Regeneration International
- If you eat meat, support grass-fed producers.
- De-carbonize your power: How? Support Community Choice Aggregation (CCAs in California); Buy or lease an electric vehicle (EV) and consider getting rooftop solar panels.
- Water management: use drip irrigation for your garden or landscaping; dual flush toilets; consider catchment and greywater recycling. If you have pavement, consider tearing it out and putting in permeable pavers or, if possible, a garden. Figure out how to redirect storm runoff water to recharge the underground aquifer!
- Energy efficiency: if you don’t already have LED lights, for example, swap out existing regular lighting (incandescent, fluorescent or CFLs) and any old, major appliances (refrigerators, HVAC, etc.); could your home insulation be improved?
- Invest your values: Divest from polluting, socially and environmentally irresponsible players and reinvest in those that reflect your values and priorities.
- Vote your Climate Change values in the next election. Get others to vote.
- Have fewer children; encourage your children and grandchildren to have fewer children.
Questions for discussion and further action:
- What must we do now in order to head off the worst effects of climate change?
- Who says a 2-degree increase is the right answer? What would the world be like if we allow that to happen? Compare it to status quo or -1-degree in, say, 50 years.
- What are the right moves to make strategically, in business, toward behavior change, that will make a difference? Ditto for our personal lives?
- How can we affect change in other US states, following in California’s greenhouse gas reduction footsteps? Which other nations can serve as a model?
- What will ensure that we’re not going to have any nasty surprises in 20-30 years from now?
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