What Can I Do?

This is a collection of blogs and resources about what individuals can do about climate change.

From The Complete List; What Can I Do? (4) (20130421)

1. Efficiency
2. Food
3. Alternative Energy
4. Waste Management
5. Behavior, Conservation and Reduced Use
6. Fuel-Waste Management
7. Forestry Management
8. Soil Management

In class, I recommend

• Vote!
• Participate in local government and school board, speak, join committees, run for election
• Make changes to your own business
• Work to make your work place more climate friendly.

The Best Resource I know on what to do to reduce carbon dioxide / greenhouse gas emissions is:

• Project Drawdown
  • They have a guide for employees in an organization.
  • They have an online course.
  • They have information based on various sectors like electricity and farmland.
  • They have this really neat table of solutions that you can sort by effectiveness.

University of Michigan: Voices for Carbon Neutrality

Collections on  OpenClimate Tumblr site.

• What to Do
• Carbon Neutrality
• Divestment

Weather Underground Blogs (Some internal links in this blog archive do not work and cannot be fixed.)

• What to Do
  •  Setting Up the Discussion: What Can I Do? (1)
  • Smoking, Marriage and Climate: What Can I Do? (2)
  • Organizing and Growing Individual Efforts: What Can I Do? (3)
  • The Complete List; What Can I Do? (4)
  • We Are What We Eat: What Can I Do? (5)
  • How Much Does It Cost: What Can I Do? (6)
• Barriers & Removing Barriers:
  • Identifying (More) Barriers in Responding to Climate Change
  • Personal and Public Barriers in Responding to Climate Change
• Divestment:
  • Why I Support Student Fossil-Fuel Divestment Campaigns
  • Risky Business on the Way to Paris

From Around the Web:

Jeff Kiehl, Climate Scientist, Psychologist: Coping with Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists: What you can do
Nature Conservancy: How You Can Help?

United Nations: Carbon Neutral Now
United Nations Foundation: Realizing Energy Efficiency

Energy Star: Energy Star

Department of Energy: Low Standby Power Guidelines and Products

New York Times: What You Can Do About Climate Change

National Center for Science Education: What Can We Do?

U.S. Career Institute: Guide to Green Careers

Rood Blog Archives
Rood Blog at Wunderground.com
ClimatePolicy.org (American Meteorological Society)