What Needs to Change?
Changing the Message
Creating the Campaign
For more sustainable living
It's Not Easy Being Green
First of all, it needs to be acknowledged that there are nearly endless ways in which lifestyle changes can help reduce greenhouse gases. And considering where to start can be very complex and confusing. Some recommendations are straightforward and easy to say but not that easy to do; such as drive and fly less. Other decisions are complicated and it's not always obvious which choice is best.
Green Change. An organization out of Marin County, CA with a helpful resource page with suggestions for greening one's home and lifestyle.
https://www.greenchange.net/resources/https://www.planetvision.com
Other websites with suggestions for personal actions
http://www.globalstewards.org/index.htm
https://www.familyeducation.com/family-life/going-green
https://climatesafety.info
https://www.climateinteractive.org
Green America: This organization that provides information about living, shopping and doing business with an environmental focus.
https://www.greenamerica.org
Environment Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com
https://architecture2030.org
Soil & Forest Management
https://naturcycle.com
Eating & Health
http://idealbite.com
https://foodprint.org
https://sustainabletable.org.au
http://www.greenandsave.com
Buying Carbon Offsets
A carbon offset is a donation that reduces emissions and compensates for emissions that you are causing. I purchase offsets when I fly, although I'm also making an effort to fly less often.
https://www.terrapass.com
https://www.cooleffect.org
https://qascarbonneutral.com/best-carbon-offsets/
Drawdown is the most comprehensive (and only) plan for reversing global warming
https://www.drawdown.org
The Solutions Project
https://thesolutionsproject.org
Jobs in the Clean Energy Economy
https://www.bluegreenalliance.org
A brief movie about transitioning to a sustainable economy in a red state A Just Transition: Creating the New Economy in Eastern Kentucky
Other Climate Information Resources
There is a broad consensus that the best first step that Congress can take to reduce carbon emissions is a carbon fee and dividend plan. There is a bill now proposed in the House of Representatives to do just that. The Citizens' Climate Lobby has a "laser focus" (their term) working for passage of such a law.
https://citizensclimatelobby.org
Other Politically-oriented websites
https://thinkprogress.org/climate/
https://environmentamerica.org
A Tea Party Founder in favor of Energy Freedom
http://energyfreedomusa.org
National Nonprofit Organizations
This organization was started by Al Gore with the proceeds from the groundbreaking documentary, The Inconvenient Truth. The Climate Reality Project has trained over 14,000 Climate Reality Leaders on the science of global warming and provided the tools for them to give presentations to others. I was trained as a climate reality leader (Denver, March 2017) and it was a terrific experience.
https://www.climaterealityproject.org
EcoAmerica
https://ecoamerica.org
The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation
https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/index.html
The Natural Resources Defense Council
https://www.nrdc.org
Naomi Klein's organization. The Leap: Caring for Earth and One Another
https://theleap.org
Scientific Organizations
More Than Scientists: It has been my feeling for some time that trust in the science of climate change will be enhanced when people see and hear climate scientists as honest, personable, committed, and intelligent — in a word, trustworthy. This website features hundreds of short videos of climate scientists talking about climate change, not about the science itself but their feelings regarding our future on a warming planet.
http://MoreThanScientists.org
Union of Concerned Scientists. They've been doing great work for years supporting the role of science in policy decisions and calling out the lies and distortions.
https://www.ucsusa.org
Climate Research at UC Berkeley
http://berkeleyearth.org
On September 20, 2016, 378 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel laureates, published an open letter to draw attention to the serious risks of climate change. The letter warns that the consequences of opting out of the Paris agreement would be severe and long-lasting for our planet's climate and for the international credibility of the United States. The text of that letter is here.
https://www.genetex.com/MarketingMaterial/Index/ResponsibleScientists
Website of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. Watch the videos on this site to see how climate scientists who speak out about his or her research have become a target for harrassment and need help from this legal defense fund. I find this shocking and appalling.
https://www.csldf.org
Government Websites on Climate Change
(note: some have been modified by the current administration)
The Department of Energy website on energy efficiency.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/office-energy-efficiency-renewable-energy
NASA's take on climate change
https://climate.nasa.gov
https://www.noaa.gov
International Climate Websites
Climate Change in Australia
https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au
National Energy Foundation of UK
http://www.nef.org.uk
Regional Climate Websites
Community Solutions: Ohio
https://www.communitysolution.org
Ecotrust: Oregon/Northwest
https://ecotrust.org
http://www.greentreks.tv
http://www.greenlivingnow.com
https://www.cooppower.coop
http://climateactionnowma.org
Miscellaneous Sites
Climate & Big Business
https://riskybusiness.org
State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
https://www.dsireusa.org
Climate Communication & News
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu
https://www.climatecommunication.org
https://www.climatecentral.org
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/health
Graphic version of the Timeline of Earth's Temperature
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Pew Research on Climate
https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/energy-and-environment/
Climate and Kids
This video from NASA astronauts was played before the COP21 in Paris. It's amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=NN1eSMXI_6Y
A library of visual images on climate
https://climatevisuals.org
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