"Ok, I get it.. how do I do my part?"
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
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…
Read More To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice: By Supporting Volunteers Like “Citizens Climate Lobby”
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
Read More Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication
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…
