Sunday, December 31, 2006

Here's what you can do to help

The Climate Crisis Can Be Solved

- Reduce your carbon emissions...to zero.

- Buy energy efficient appliances and lightbulbs.

- Change your thermostat (and use clock thermostats) to reduce
energy for heating and cooling.

- Weatherize your house, increase insulation, get an energy audit.

- Recycle.

- If you can buy a hybrid car.

- When you can, walk or ride a bycicly.

- Where you can, use lightrail and mass transit.

- Tell your parents not to ruin the world that you will live in.

- If you are a parent, join with your children to save the world they
will live in.

- Switch to renewable sources of energy.

- Call your power company to see if they offer green energy. If they don't, ask them why not.

- Vote for leaders who pledge to save this crisis. Write to congress...if they don't listen, run for congress.

- Plant trees....lots of trees.

- Speak up in your community.

- Call radio shows and write newspapers.

- Insist that America freeze CO2 emissions and join international efforts to stop global warming.

- Reduce our dependance on foreign oil, help farmers grow alcohol fuels.

- Raise fuel economy standards, require lower emissions from automobiles.

- If you believe in prayer, pray that people will find the strength to change.

- In the words of the old African proverb...when you pray move your feet.

Encourage everyone you know to watch the movie "An Inconvenient Truth". Learn as much as you can about the climate crisis. Then put your knowledge into action.

(Taken from the credits of the movie.)