There aren't many with as fine a voice as Paul McCartney's. He's using it to take us to task for our weakness at fighting climate change, in this video, made with his family. The short film is an absolutely lovely…
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Busy? Here’s a Fast Way to Stay Informed About Climate Trends and Solutions
Hi folks... If you are busy, a single and reliable news source about climate trends and solutions is a useful thing. Here are two I recommend: The first is The Daily Climate, a publication of Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit, nonpartisan…
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“OK, I get it. How do I do my part?” Here’s how…
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…
To Save the Planet, Use Our Voices: That Includes Setting an Awesome Example for Kids…
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. The roles…
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Celebrate Earth Day, by Investing Your Working Life in a Job That is Clean, Green and That Matters…
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…
Here’s the new Climate Flag… pass it along, we can spread it worldwide!
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…
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Here’s How a Professional Soccer Team Goes 100% Carbon Neutral. To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First.
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…
Top Ways to Save the Planet: Here’s Our Handbook
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…
Travelers, Zero-out Your Pollution by Buying Carbon Offsets
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…
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A Plant-rich Diet is a Powerful Way to Fight the Emerging Climate Crisis
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,…
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To Fight Climate Change, Reduce the Vast Amount of Wasted Food… the World’s Stupidest Problem
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…
To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: Electric Cars are Already Cheaper to Run Than Gasoline Cars
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 Story
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…
If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us
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…
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Want to do your part? Start by doing a Green Good Turn daily
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.…
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Energy Efficiency: Not Sexy, yet a Superhero-Powerful Global Warming Solution
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…
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Carbon Emissions are Moving in the Wrong Direction, and We’re Running Out of Time
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…
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I ask myself: “How can I follow the example of this kid?”
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…
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To Slow Global Warming, Change Ourselves First: That Includes How We Invest
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…
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Know Your Superpowers, to Beat Global Warming… With You as a Warrior, We Will Win
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…
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What’s so dangerous about the emerging climate crisis? This…
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…
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To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: The Pope’s Moral Case for Climate Warriors, Made to Oil Execs
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…
To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Hawaii Creates Jobs by Going Green
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…
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To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: Climate-friendly Plant-based Meat Substitutes are Becoming Widely Available
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. …
Great Animation to Share, Concisely Showing the Global Warming of Recent Decades
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…
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To Save the Planet, Share This Collection of Climate-Solutions Memes – See Below…
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…
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5 Reasons Why The Clean Energy Future Can’t Be Stopped
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…
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To Save the Planet, Support New Technologies: Carbon Fiber Saves a LOT of Gasoline, is Stronger Than Steel
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…
How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine
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…
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To Save the Planet, Use Our Voices: Michael Bloomberg Gives $50M to Replace Coal with Clean Energy
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…
To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: Like Paul McCartney, in His Film about Protecting Our Fragile Planet
There aren't many with as fine a voice as Paul McCartney's. He's using it to take us to task for our weakness at fighting climate change, in this video, made with his family. The short film is an absolutely lovely…
What’s So Dangerous About Global Warming? Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming And Humans Are The Cause
The United States government Friday published its most-weighty report yet on the unfolding climate change crisis, drawing on over 1,500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, according to National Public Radio's All Things Considered: Read their article or hear the broadcast here. In…
If You’re General Motors, To Save the Planet Simply Electrify Your ENTIRE LINEUP
Astonishing news from the auto industry this week: "General Motors said Monday that it plans to electrify its entire lineup, bringing at least 20 models to the U.S. market by 2023, including two electric vehicles within the next 18 months,"…
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To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: What Do Both Faith and Secular Morality Tell Us?
The moral obligation created by climate change, it turns out, is the same for people of faith and for non-religious people. So, many of us are coming to realize that no one has the right to injure others, especially the weakest among…
To Save the Planet, Use Our Voices: Run for Office, or Volunteer for a Local Commission
Emotion from the 2016 U.S. election triggered a wave of new people running for office... and that includes people serious about protecting our future from environmental harm. Though the impulse comes from concern, for many it will be the most…
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To Save the Planet, Invest Our Working Lives: Tesla/Panasonic’s New Solar Roof Tile Factories are Hiring
Tesla and Panasonic have launched the most exciting home construction product in decades: Attractive high-end roofing tiles that look like expensive slate, and capture the sun's energy for home electricity use. Think of it: We periodically need a new roof…
To Save the Planet, Invest our Working Lives: Wind Power Jobs Continue Solid Growth in the American Midwest and Mountain West
Aside from its attractive and continuing cost reductions, wind energy also provides solid local jobs as large wind farms are built. Here is an in-depth profile of Oklahoma's massive Wind Catcher wind farm project; it may well hold the title…
To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: Think Deeply About Those Who Come After Us
The list of lifestyle tactics we can use to clean up our personal carbon footprint is pretty well-known, but there is another dimension: How do we feel, inside, about the harm we are doing to people around us, in particular…
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To Save the Planet, Use Our Voices: These 21 kids taking on Trump could be our best hope for climate action
From Eric Holthaus of Grist, a profile of 21 kids skillfully using the court system to sue those who harm the kids' futures... by causing climate change. In this case, the commercial product causing the kids harm is coal, oil…
To Save the Planet, Use Our Voices: “I’m a climate scientist. And I’m not letting trickle-down ignorance win.”
Here's is an excellent piece from the Washington Post, by climate scientist Ben Santer of the National Academy of Sciences. In it he firmly commits to making sure climate change facts win, not the current (and temporary) political blizzard of…
To Save the Planet, Invest Our Working Lives: Quick video showing why there are twice as many solar jobs than coal jobs in the U.S.
Here's a short, punchy YouTube showing why clean, well-paying solar jobs keep increasing while jobs in our most filthy energy source, coal, keep decreasing. It was put together by Vox. Solid economics and basic common sense... if you know someone…
To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: Each one of us is actually a “Many Me,” wielding influence in many arenas
When we say, To Save the Planet Change Yourself First, usually we mean our personal carbon footprint: Transportation, homes, and even making our food choices clean and green. However, it's also fun to see ourselves as a Many Me... This…
What’s So Dangerous About Global Warming: Coal to Solar Switch Could Save 52,000 U.S. Lives Per Year
Gosh, who would have guessed, with all this talk about bringing coal jobs back? Coal is filthy stuff and shortens the lives of 52,000 Americans each year, according to "So about those coal jobs: Turns out replacing coal with solar could…
To Save the Planet, Invest Our Careers: Where to Look? Tesla is expanding…
I had the pleasure of attending my third Tesla annual shareholders meeting yesterday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Among founder Elon Musk's comments, one theme stuck out for me: Tesla is growing, a lot. Therefore, the…
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To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: Five Ways to Make a Difference
This quarter's Environmental Defense Fund Solutions magazine publishes a list of great advocacy resources... Five Ways to Make a Difference. As the article lead-paragraph says, "In these unprecedented times, we've seen something equally unprecedented - a surge of activism." Countable (countable.us) "Not sure…
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To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: Get Educated on the Economic Dangers of Global Warming
If we want to save the planet, we have to educate ourselves as part of "changing ourselves first." Here's an interview with Columbia Business School professor Geoffrey Heal on the dangerous economics of climate change, which he discusses at length…
What’s So Dangerous About Global Warming? Here’s What Happens if the U.S. Withdraws From the Paris Climate Change Agreement
Global Warming for Busy People is mostly calls-to-action, and we focus on coaxing busy-but-concerned people to start fighting the good fight, teaching a basket of tactics drawn from the personal powers we all possess in a democratic, market-based economy. But…
To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: Today, Pope Francis Gave a Copy of His Climate Change Book to President Trump
One way to think about "To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice" is for us to simply look, in daily conversation or social settings, for opportunities to influence the people around us... be resourceful and courteous, but gently persistent. Today,…
To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Boom Times for Clean Energy Jobs
Here's a thoughtful overview of the clean energy job market, from Rod Griffin of the Environmental Defense Fund's quarterly magazine, EDF Solutions. Good news: There is money to be made here, not to mention saving the planet... as Griffin points…
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To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: Like, Simply Eat Meat Less Often
Changing our own habits first, to reduce greenhouse pollution, is the way most people start their path to global warming solutions. It feels good to "live lightly on the land," though based on my own experience I'd wager most do…
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To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: By Supporting Volunteers Like “Citizens Climate Lobby”
By chance good luck, the New York Times yesterday published an extended profile on Citizens Climate Lobby. The profile fits with our own May 18 call-to-action post, asking that we all support CCL's June 9th day of calling US congressional…
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To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: June 9 Day to Call Congress, and Advocate for Carbon Fee and Dividend
One of the very highest-payoff climate change solutions is carbon-fee-and-dividend: It fixes the serious market distortion, where climate harm is inflicted on innocent third parties but no cost ever shows up on the transgressor's books - in effect, an enormous subsidy…
Lucky news: China and India’s speedy pullback on coal effectively covers for emerging Trump-era US shortfalls in fighting climate pollution
Sometimes we get lucky, in this case where China and India are ahead of schedule curtailing the use of filthy coal - effectively, picking up the slack created by Trump squashing America's Clean Power Plan. Good backgrounder by Andrew Freedman of…
Food for Thought: President Obama Remains An Activist, Says How We Get Our Food Makes a BIG Difference on Climate Change
Following a short break after leaving the White House, President Obama returns to his skills as an activist... characteristic with his no-drama style, looks like he'll work only on really big knobs that make a difference. Climate change makes his…
Hypnotic Video: This is What the Future Looks Like (Hint: It’s Windy)
Here's is a fun wind farm video, from the windshield of a vehicle touring the giant wind farm in Mojave, California... in the vast deserts stretching east toward Arizona from California's fertile Central Valley. Large-scale wind farms are springing up…
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Scientists and Their Allies Stage Unprecedented Worldwide Protest
Here's a fine summary article about Saturday's March for Science, from New York Magazine writer Chas Danner. Please keep in mind: Though an event like Earth Day is only a single day, Washington's oil and coal industry-driven clampdown is likely to…
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The Wittiest Signs from the San Francisco March for Science
Saturday was Earth Day and saw the first-ever March for Science in 600 cities around the world... here is a fun collection of witty protest signs, from the San Francisco Chronicle. It's good to keep in mind that even though…
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Historic First: the March For Science… Live Updates
Here's a live update stream on today's March for Science, from Live Science. (If you can't be at one of the marches in 600 cities around the world, you can still show up online!) As well, here are streams from Science…
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Climate Change is Rewriting History Books: There Hasn’t Been a Cooler-Than-Average Month in 628 Months
March temperature data is in, and the news isn't good: It was the second hottest March on record. The excellent graphic in this piece by Brian Kahn of Climate Central tells the story of our unfolding new-climate era. "What's so…
Earth Day 2017 is here!
Earth Day 2017 is here! Check out teaching events and marches near you... this year there is extra attention to the critically important role science plays in a rational society, with teach-ins on environmental and climate literacy. Saturday, April 22,…
In One Elegant Move, Combine Two Personal Superpowers – “Invest Your Working Life” and
If you have a strong conviction on a social-change issue, there are really only three tactics you can use (Superpowers we all share, really). They come from you, and only you... Change Yourself, or Invest Your Working Life, or Use…
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Guess Who’s for a Carbon Tax Now…
A fine summary from Tina Rosenberg the New York Times, illustrating growing support for a carbon tax from oil executives (including the new CEO of Exxon after Rex Tillerson's departure), as well as other conservatives. Environmentalists have long pointed…
Climate change action is good for the economy – and Britain is the proof
As we are seeing today in California, "Britain has proved the doom-mongers wrong: economies can thrive while emissions fall..." To me this makes obvious sense for two reasons: One, climate solutions generate new and lucrative industries, especially creating high-wage-high-skill jobs.…
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Smart Factories and Energy Efficiency
Here's a discussion on how smart factories and energy efficiency help company success while reducing carbon footprint. The event was a breakout lecture at last summer's Silicon Valley Energy Summit at Stanford University. The speakers are Mark Johnson, U.S. Department of…
The 100 Things We Need To Do To Reverse Global Warming
I want to draw everyone's attention to (and recommend) the new book, "Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming." The book is the result of an extensive research project to rate the relative effectiveness of many…
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U.S. Desert Songbirds at Risk in a Warming Climate
Last month I camped in the California desert, and yes, there is awesome spring life there - not only an explosion of flowers, but also bird life. So, yes, given the ferocious five-year drought the state just went through, I…
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There’s Vast Untapped Potential for Solar Rooftops in the US, Says Google
Here's a fun tool from Google for calculating solar rooftop potentials... from an article in Greentech Media by Katie Fehrenbacher. With rooftop solar costs continuing to drop, it's time to go solar! * …
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Part Three: Vehicle Standards are Energy Efficiency at its Best – and Too Valuable to Roll Back
Thank you, Lord, for putting Amory Lovins and his Rocky Mountain Institute on the planet... Here one of the world's leading experts on energy efficiency economics demolishes the Trump team's incorrect argument that lowering automobile fuel economy standards is good…
To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: “The Indivisible Guide” to Influencing Our Leaders and the Business Community
"Be the change you want to see..." Earlier this month I had the honor of hearing one of the authors of the fast-rising and hugely useful Indivisible Guide for grassroots-organizing. Our era and our children's eras face great risk from…
Part Two: Vehicle Standards are Energy Efficiency at its Best – and Too Valuable to Roll Back
We are seeing a renaissance in upcoming clean vehicle, high MPG gasoline and electric car offerings by all major auto manufacturer. But there are risks: Market acceptance is gradual and there is open hostility from some quarters. Here's a thoughtful piece…
“Houston, We Have a Problem…”
Human population (“the economy”) will gradually surpass our planet’s carrying-capacity, and stress points are already starting to show. The stress-point emerging first and worst is global warming, which is already partially upon us and promises to get worse, as mankind…
From Greentech Media: “How the US Wind Sector Is Building Momentum, Driving Economic Benefits”
Clean wind energy is producing jobs at a fine growth pace... inspiring confidence in the wind industry. If you are a young person looking for a way to invest your career in a trade which saves the planet, wind energy…
To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: The Best Two Hybrid Cars Now Get 133MPGe and 106MPGe
Automakers in every country are in a race... who will design the best electric and hybrid cars? Two strong contestants right now are the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime which gets 133MPGe and 640 miles range, and the 2017 Chevy Volt…
News and Advocacy Sources We Follow: Deutsche Welle’s “Environment – Doing Your Bit”
An important part of "Change Yourself First" is get-as-educated-as-possible... here's a solid source I like: I find Germany's broadcast outfit Deutsche Welle a refreshing alternative to America's mainstream media. It feels good to hear investigative journalism from other countries, produced…
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Global Warming Adaptation, Like the Emerging Advanced-Energy Sector, Will Produce a LOT of New Jobs: The Alaskan Experience
Nice investigative piece from this week's Bloomberg... on how poorly prepared for climate adaptation Alaska currently is, given the much-warmer winters its economy now experiences. But, not obviously, there are a BOATLOAD of new jobs coming in the climate adaptation…
Contest: Enter Your Carbon Footprint Game in Ontario’s “Climate Change Game Jam”
Ever want to design a game? Enter your awesome climate-footprint game in the upcoming "Climate Change Game Jam." Make saving the planet fun! The event takes place March 18 and 19, and is sponsored by the provincial government of Ontario,…
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Vehicle Standards are Energy Efficiency at its Best – and Too Valuable to Roll Back
The Obama new, higher automobile fuel economy standards will put hundreds of billions of dollars back in the wallets of motorists over the coming decade, yet the new Federal government wants to roll back the standards... just at the time…
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There are Broad Categories of New Jobs Coming, Adapting to or Preventing Global Warming
The second of our personal Superpowers is "To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life..." Here we pull career ideas from two fine think-tank documents: * * …
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Tips for Finding Job Leads in the Emerging Advanced Energy Economy
In art or music, it pays to learn from the Masters... why reinvent paths a genius has already blazed for us? So for job search, glean leads from lists others have already compiled in the advanced-energy sector: Trade associations, think…
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100% Greenhouse Gas-free Energy Comes to 11 Cities in Silicon Valley
Completely nonpolluting electricity has arrived for Silicon Valey residences and businesses. Silicon Valley Clean Energy is about to go live. The rollout over the next several months offers 100% carbon free energy in two different flavors depending on source. Customers will…
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From Greentech Media: Advice for Building a Cleantech Career
The second of our great Superpowers is: "If you want to save the planet, Invest Your Working Life." I really enjoyed this podcast by Greentech Media's Stephen Lacey, "The Future of Work: Advice for Building a Cleantech Career in a Rapidly Changing Economy."…
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Voice Training: Climate Reality Project
The third of our great Superpowers is "If you want to save the planet, Use Your Voice." This week I had the pleasure of attending advocacy training by The Climate Reality Project, in Denver. Sobering, yet extraordinarily energizing! It included…
“Crisis” means both danger AND job opportunity
I really like Al Gore, and appreciate a morale-builder he shares with audiences, to soften some of the emotion climate change causes folks. This is from an interview he gave Amazon: "I often open the slideshow by talking about the…
“Science is the only news…”
Your First Superpower: “Change Yourself First”
Around camp dinner, my friend David talked about climate change. What he said was perfect: "To save the planet, you have to change yourself first." That's it, diamond-like precise: As we grow into a cleaner lifestyle, we automatically get an…
Your Second Superpower: “Invest Your Working Life”
Since we all have to go to work anyway, we may as well choose jobs on the side of good rather than evil… There are 2.5 million jobs already in America’s advanced energy sector, plus more in other fields that…
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Your Third Superpower: “Use Your Voice”
Our third great source of personal power is Use Your Voice… in other words, be an influencer: Get in the habit of actively influencing the people around us, our jobs and our economy, and our leaders at every level. Our…
“If I just explain the facts, they’ll get it – right?”
Here's another of Katherine Hayhoe's excellent video talks on global warming science and global warming solutions... in this one, she talks about recent science into the psychology of skepticism: Why simply telling folks about facts doesn't always influence them. *…
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Focus on big solutions that really matter
Global warming is a devilish problem, because our greenhouse gas pollution comes mostly from fossil fuels which infect every area of our civilization. But though daunting, fossil fuels are where we must focus the big solutions, ones that really stand…
Summer release date set for An Inconvenient Sequel: Speaking Truth to Power
According to film-industry mainstay Variety, a July 28 summer release date has been set for An Inconvenient Sequel: Speaking Truth to Power. Al Gore's ten-year update of his orginal hit global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth received positive reviews at this month's…
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Do a Green Good Turn Daily
During 2014 and 2015 I went through a period of becoming educated about global warming. It blew my mind... great brain-candy on both: A) the problem-set side (the science) and, B) the solution-set side (the economics). But along the way…
Free stuff: One-on-One Counseling, Plus a List of Low-Cost Tips
Global Warming for Busy People is a free service open to all, a labor of love really, by our authors. We are in Spring of 2017 starting free one-on-one mentoring services, to help you make a life change in any…
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Concise, Positive Climate Message (Tattoo it on Your Arm)
This useful summary-message is by Canadian author Guy Dauncey, from his fine resource book: "The Climate Challenge (101 Solutions to Global Warming)" Fossil fuels have been amazing. The age of fossil fuels is almost over. Climate change is the Earth's…
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Despite the intensity of the election, there is clear bipartisan support for renewable energy
Interesting polling as reported yesterday by The Guardian: "Republicans and Democrats Alike Want More Clean Energy." We've been hearing this for sometime, that on the conservative side it is really only the leadership that blocks efforts to fight climate change...…
Change-Yourself-First Toolbox
A) The excellent short, one page list of green tips, from the Union of Concerned Scientists book "Cooler, Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living." You can get a lot of insight quickly from this one document! B) For most people,…
Two and a Half Steps to Fighting Global Warming
Maximize the effective time and skills each of us brings, without wrecking our personal lives: To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First. To Save the Planet, Invest Your Career. To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice. (The steps do NOT…
To Save the Planet, Use Your Cash Like a Vote
As I see it, there are two ways we can do that: Vote with one's purchases. Vote with one's donations. The first is using your personal Market Power to influence others (wise, because you were going to use cash to…
Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication
Use your voice to influence the people around us, in our ordinary day-to-day low level social interactions. Key : Make the effort to hear their point of view and speak to their concerns. A magnificent resource to polish your technique…
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To Change Yourself First, Take a Careful Look at How You Are Doing Today
If you want to save the planet, Change Yourself First. It is the magic key that unlocks one hell of a self-education on climate change, and of course fixes your carbon footprint, your own contribution greenhouse gas pollution. But it…
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Great short video on Climate Weirding by Katherine Hayhoe
I can't resist turning busy readers onto powerful, concise videos... that give a solid briefing very quickly. This video is by climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University... her talks are lively, short and pack a lot of scientific…
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