Take Action

Reduce your carbon dioxide emissions.  Visit Environemental Defense's www.fightglobalwarming.com website to see how. You can calculate your current emissions, and learn how to reduce them. Most changes are easy and will save you money.

Sign These Petitions. Click on the images below and sign these online petitions. This is an easy way to show your support, and you will join hundreds of thousands.

     

Support Ride for Climate Ride for Climate USA needs your help! While my current trip to patagonia is paid for almost entirely by personal savings (thanks to a few of you who have helped), the next trip, a loop around the U.S. to encourage action on global warming, needs help. Click on the paypal link below and make a donation and join Ride for Climate USA.

Students - make the Urally pledge. Join other students in pledging to use energy more efficiently. Fill out a pledge and contact the urally team: www.urally.org.Share with other students around the nation how you are acting to use energy more efficiently. (This is a program run by high school students from a number of different schools, and I encourage your school to look into it.)

Learn More. Here are some excellent web sites to help you learn more about climate change.
Climate Change Education - a hub site providing climate change information for all grade levels
Climate Ark - a listing all most recent climate change news
realclimate.org - A technical but readable web log by climate scientists
Pew Center for Climate Change - a source for detailed information, especially policy

Ride a Bicycle. Using a bicycle to get to work or to run errands uses no fossil fuels and saves you money. It also saves time as you no longer need to both drive to work and then go to the gym afterwards. Ride a bike or, if you can't bike, support bicycle lanes in your community.