"Ok, I get it.. how do I do my part?"
Today, Monday April 22, is the actual Earth Day and a day of volunteerism… a moment for us to reflect: Isn’t how we make our big, lifetime ‘work choices’ a kind of volunteerism, if done with intention for the good…
There is a new symbol going around: The Climate Flag, created by artists in San Francisco, California. Any one of us can download the .pdf to make bumper stickers, buttons, web badges. Or, for rallies, we can get together with…
Cool story of a professional sports team going 100% carbon neutral, Real Betis Balompie – a top team in Spain’s competitive soccer La Liga. Here’s how they get the big win. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Simply copy the…
Hello friends… you are here because you asked yourself, “How do I do my part?” It’s OK to start small, but get moving immediately… even in modest ways in your day to day life. Have confidence that you will learn as you…
An excellent action handbook comes to us from Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world leader of the fight to slow the emerging climate crisis. His 2017 book Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help…
A friend found this awesome weekly summary of the world’s climate news, The Weekly Climate Review from the MacArthur Foundation. You can quickly sign up to receive it via email once a week. I did this, and find it an…
As a business person and a climate solutions fan, I look for trends where the two intersect. Corporations and families are learning to nullify greenhouse gas pollution produced by their operations or by family energy and travel. How? Pay others to…
Changing our habits is the way most people start learning about global warming solutions. It’s effective at reducing our carbon footprint, plus gives one a superb education while increasing our sense of personal power. And it pays to be strategic,…
It turns out reducing food waste is the third most powerful way to fight global warming according to the researchers Project Drawdown, the bestselling environmental book of 2017. And, a refreshing bonus, it saves hard-earned family money – in effect giving each of us…
Here’s a great article from The Guardian, reporting that “electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, new research shows.” This data confirms my own experience as an…
Our goal is to stop or adapt to the emerging climate crisis. We are not trying to convince anyone how dangerous it is, but rather will focus on sharing global warming solutions with those who already acknowledge the problem but…
One of our most powerful global warming solutions is: “If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us.” The methods to get healthy soil are called regenerative agriculture. Essentially, we want to put more organic material…
Recently, I went through a period of self-education about global warming. It blew my mind. Along the way I realized one solution all of us can do immediately is to get in the habit of doing a Green Good Turn daily.…
This talk by James Sweeney of Stanford University greatly clarified my thinking about solutions to global warming: His research shows that energy-efficiency is THE BIGGEST heavy hitter solution – it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions three to four times more, historically, than…
Hi friends, editor Bill here… My intent for this site is to educate folks about the main one-to-two-dozen global warming solutions. That way, you can know both the tools, and about your personal power, hopefully giving you the guts to use…
Sometimes a story frames the big picture around global warming simply and clearly… I see this fifteen year old taking a leadership role, and ask myself: “How can I follow the example of this kid? Do I even have her…
There are many ways to green our daily lives… but a great tool most people don’t think of is greening our investments. In particular, at least stop doing harm by dumping any investment in oil, coal or natural gas companies…
Get started, taking action on solutions to our emerging climate crisis… while celebrating good jobs and clean, prosperous lives for millions. In a very real sense, we are inventing the healthy civilization of the future. It starts with YOU. The…
This has been a brutally hot summer so far, breaking records all around the world. This is NOT normal… the excess heat we are seeing in the atmosphere will transfer – as it always does – to the oceans, which…
As a kid, I always watched the grown ups… Like a young hawk, I absorbed the examples they set: They showed me how I should live, what leadership looks like. They showed me that I have power and a voice.…
I like this pope. Speaking to invited oil industry leaders in the Vatican in early June, Pope Francis reminded them of the moral argument for fighting the emerging climate crisis, as well as ethical principles that should be followed by…
Why WOULDN’T anyone want to go work in Hawaii for a few years? Here’s a great piece from Fast Company, “Hawaii Just Passed a Law to Make the State Carbon-Neutral by 2045.” This creates good jobs and business opportunities in…
Who knew fighting global warming could taste so good? Yummy plant-based meat substitutes are a rapidly growing new market, not just saving the planet but in the process also creating great new jobs as well as a solid business opportunity. …
Hey, busy people, here is a new, concise animation showing the increasing temperatures of recent decades. (It’s actually kind of hypnotic, fun to watch…) I’d say it’s important to share the animation with family and friends – to gently and…
Photo memes are a quick, punchy tool you and I can use to fight global warming: We can use them to keep climate change solutions top-of-mind, among people we want to influence. That’s what it’s all about… each of us…
Great news: Clean energy has reached what venture capitalists call “an inflection point.” There is no stopping it, and it has become a worldwide, major positive trend. Fossil fuel industry attempts to kill renewable energy have failed, and all signs…
Soon it will be time to get in on the emerging carbon fiber industry… especially now that researchers can make the ultrastrong, ultralight steel-replacement out of plants instead of petroleum, as explained in this article in Popular Science by Jeremiah…
One of the most dangerous things about the emerging global warming crisis is the organized, well-funded opposition to any reasonable action – opposition even to a fair reading of the science, in particular inside the United States. Here is an…
Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg certainly used his voice in an awesome way this week, by giving $50 million of his own money to advocate internationally to replace filthy coal with cleaner energy. This is in addition to $165 million he…
There aren’t many with as fine a voice as Paul McCartney’s, and his is taking the new U.S. administration to task for its weakness at fighting climate change. According to the BBC, the former Beatle criticised President Trump’s attitude towards climate…
