"Ok, I get it.. how do I do my part?"
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…
Read More Busy? Here’s a Fast Way to Stay Informed About Climate Trends and Solutions
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…
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…
Read More To Save the Planet, Use Our Voices: That Includes Setting an Awesome Example for Kids…
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…
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…
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…
Read More Travelers, Zero-out Your Pollution by Buying Carbon Offsets
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,…
Read More A Plant-rich Diet is a Powerful Way to Fight the Emerging Climate Crisis
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…
Read More If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us
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.…
Read More Want to do your part? Start by 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…
Read More Energy Efficiency: Not Sexy, yet a Superhero-Powerful Global Warming Solution
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…
Read More To Slow Global Warming, Change Ourselves First: That Includes How We Invest
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…
Read More Know Your Superpowers, to Beat Global Warming… With You as a Warrior, We Will Win
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…
Read More To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Hawaii Creates Jobs by Going Green
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. …
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…
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…
Read More To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: Think Deeply About Those Who Come After Us
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…
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…
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…
Read More To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: Like, Simply Eat Meat Less Often
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…
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! * …
Read More There’s Vast Untapped Potential for Solar Rooftops in the US, Says Google
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…
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…
Read More News and Advocacy Sources We Follow: Deutsche Welle’s “Environment – Doing Your Bit”
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,…
Read More Contest: Enter Your Carbon Footprint Game in Ontario’s “Climate Change Game Jam”
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…
Read More 100% Greenhouse Gas-free Energy Comes to 11 Cities in Silicon Valley
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…
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…
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…
Read More Free stuff: One-on-One Counseling, Plus a List of Low-Cost Tips
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,…
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…
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…
Read More To Change Yourself First, Take a Careful Look at How You Are Doing Today
The biggest issue facing civilization today, "how to slow down catastrophic global warming so we have time to create the sustainable, clean economy of the future," quickly comes back to the personal level: "Ok, I get it... What can I…
