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Focus on the climate your children will inherit
- Walk and bike more, drive less
- Work from home if you can
- Meet virtually more, fly and commute less
- Combine shopping trips, errands, deliveries, and pickups
- Remote-Learn more, attend classes less
- Think about ditching your SUV for an electric or hybrid car
- Switch bulbs to LEDs to save money and electricity
- Turn out lights when leaving a room
- Set thermostat a few degrees lower in winter, higher in summer
- Consider solar panels or a geothermal pump
- Upgrade your windows to cut down drafts and heat loss
- Use power strips to turn TVs on and off
- Buy less plastic, especially single-use items
- Take cloth totes when you shop
- Drink more water, less cow’s milk
- Eat more grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits, less red meat
- Microwave more, cook in gas oven less
- Go all-electric for kitchens
- Run dishwasher only for full loads
- Turn water-heater temperature down
- Buy fewer, sturdier (gently used) clothes and wear them longer
- Learn to mend
- Wash fewer, fuller, cooler loads in washing machine
- Dry clothes outside if you can
- Vote for climate-aware local, state, and national candidates
- Call/Write/Email your Senators and Representatives to support climate policies
- Share concerns about climate change with family, friends, and neighbors
- Form or join a local activist group advocating for climate action
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What I Can Do! by City Tech Blogger Juan S. Velez
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An Individual’s Impact on Climate Change by City Tech Blogger Michael Avulov
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Becoming Responsible about Climate Change by City Tech Blogger Sumyia Rahman
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What We Can Do to Slow Climate Change by City Tech Blogger Inga Balkissoon
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Living Greener to Slow Climate Change Impacts by City Tech Blogger Corey Fung
Climate change is becoming a persistent problem as time goes on. While some politicians may like to tell us that climate change doesn’t exist, we can clearly see its effects in many areas and in the atmosphere. Summers are getting hotter and winters are getting colder than they
Thinking of Earth as a Person When it Comes to Climate Change by City Tech Blogger Tiara Cash
Tiara Cash Climate You Blog Climate change is something that we as humans don’t take as seriously as we should. Whether that be because we believe it personally doesn’t affect us, or because we don’t believe it’s real, the net result is a collective apathy in most people.
