E - Recommended Actions for Individuals
E - Grouped Individual Action Recommendations
Add solar panels to your house
Advocate for better building codes and energy efficiency
Avoid dogs or cats as pets, or make them vegetarian
Avoid one transatlantic flight
Back a scientist running for office
Become a Climate Reality Leader
Become a member of your city's bike-sharing program
Become a planetary futurist
Become an activist for regenerative food, farming and land use.
Build a downspout planter box
Build towers and skycrapers with wood
Buy carbon offsets when you fly
Buy Energy Star label appliances
Buy furniture with sustainably harvested wood
Buy minimally packaged goods
Buy Renewable Energy Certificates
Calculate your carbon footprint
Change your car air filter
Clean or replace HVAC filters every three months
Come together to combat climate change
Commute with an electric bike
Contact your leaders about the climate crisis
Design your workspace around natural light
Discuss, and advocate for the environment in more concrete terms
Disinvest from carbon-heavy industry and investments
Don't buy a new home - renovate an older one
Don't drink bottled water
Don't fly to go on vacation
Eat grass-fed and pasture raised meats
Eat more fruits, grains, and vegetables
Encourage others to conserve
Endorse the Paris agreement
Engage in lower carbon transport
Find out where your reps stand
Follow female environmental journalists
Get a report card from your utility company
Get inspired by what another city is doing
Go to a Climate Reality Leader presentation
Install a low-flow showerhead
Install a smart thermostat
Join a Community-Supported Agriculture Project
Join a Day for Climate Action
Keep the fossil fuel industry accountable
Learn how sea-level rise will affect your city
Listen to the best climate podcast
Map a two-mile circle around your house and walk everywhere within it
Obsess over every drop of water
Offset your carbon emissions
Only wash your car at self-serve car washes
Opt for "green pricing" from your electricity provider
Plant your own vegetable garden
Push your city to support 100% clean energy
Put books about climate change in little free libraries
Raise or lower your thermostat (depending on the season)
Re-watch An Inconvenient Truth
Read a book about climate change
Read some climate fiction
Retrofit your local highway
Say yes to transportation initiatives
Scrap it your old car - don't resell it
See if you quaify for PACE - Property Assessed Clean Energy
Sign up for an autonomous vehicle pilot program
Spread the word about Years of Living Dangerously
Start or support an urban farm
Support corporate sustainability efforts
Support publications reporting on climate change
Support the French 4 per 1000 initiative
Support transit-oriented development
Support your local farmers who use regenerative agriculture and land use practices
Support your local river clean-up
Switch to a tankless water heater
Switch to double pane windows
Switch to renewable energy
Switch to reusable shopping bags
Talk about climate change whenever you can
Tell your city to go car-free
Track and measure the green performance of your building
Turn a parking space into a park
Understand how density fights climate change
Understand how the debate became political
Unplug electronic devices when not in use
Use a programmable thermostat
Use area rugs to keep feet warm
Wash your clothes in cold water (you can save 75% of the energy)
Work from home one day each week
Work on a community solar project
E - Personal Decisionmaking - Individual Activism
I:WhatCanIDoIndividually?
2020 Focus on what you eat, not on whether it’s local
Infographic Reducing your water footprint
E - Evaluating the Individual Action Literature
E - Personal Responsibility
2007 Mindmap - Connecting with nature
2007 Mindmap - Decide to make a difference
2007 Mindmap - Doing Something about climate change
2007 Mindmap - Goal setting for a livable planet
2007 Mindmap - Strategies for taking action
2007 Mindmap - Waking up to climate change
2017 CO2 emissions for transport options (per 4,000 miles)
2017 CO2e values for per capita actions
2017 Evolution of my personal footprint
2017 Other common household activities and emissions
2017 Relative emissions reduction potentials at the individual level
2023 Amount consumers are willing to pay is correlated more with item cost than with item footprint
2023 Consumers are very interested in purchasing credits
2023 Opportunities to increase awareness of and education about carbon credits
2023 Transparency is key to consumer adoption of carbon footprint offsetting
2023 Will consumers switch brands if carbon offsetting is available
Self-reporting environmental behavior reduces support for policy
The more energy-saving actions the bigger the reduction in support for policy
Your life and climate change -- interactive graphic
"The most powerful weapon we have is the ability to control our own carbon footprint"
As I learned more about climate change, my need to do something intensified
As individuals perhaps biospherism is the best we can do
Becyling - beyond recycling
Boycotts are an effective way to make companies pay attention to consumers. Example of Nestle.
Boycotts have been effective -- examples include forcing Body Shop to declare itself “animal cruelty-free” after a boycott and Nestle being forced to commit to zero deforestation policy
Carbon fee and dividend is the policy answer
Carbon offsets don't help
Civil disobedience isn't the step individuals can take
Converting people with facts wasn't working
E - Recommended Actions to Tackle Climate Change
Example of effective boycott: 1990 boycott against Nike for using child labor. Longer term impact - Nike “consciously jumping in” to be proactive on issues.
Example of success is England, where government was pressured into banning some single-use plastic items, and EU, where European Parliament passed law banning disposable plastic
Faith is taking the first step . . . MLK
Fear doesn't lead to change, it leads to guilt
From "environmentalism" to "biospherism"
Going green is not the answer
Personal reductions DO help to shift the culture
Saving the world is a fantasy for our egos
Since there is no silver bullet, personal change will be necessary
Strikes can have significant effect on policy-making since politicians will listen to the electorate
There were lists of things we could do - but they're proverbs, not solutions. They're things you do, they're not outcomes
We have met the enemy, and he is us
Richard Muller's answer to What human lifestyle (described in as much detail as you can) would be required in order to reverse the progress of human-caused climate change?
As a result of completing the course
Overview of suggested action
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