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Category: To save the planet change yourself first
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…
Busy? Here’s a Fast Way to Stay Informed About All Things Climate Change
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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. …
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, 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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! * …
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…
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,…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Make the Most of Our Personal Power
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…
