Action Items:
Time Commitment
1 to 4 Hours
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- Join/attend your neighborhood council to see what climate initiatives currently exist and how you can incorporate more ideas around regenerative thinking and climate justice.
- Defend the Arctic Refuge from Reckless Oil Drilling & Exploration by delivering this public message from EarthJustice to U.S. Congress.
- Organize a clean up in your community! Invite friends & find a local park or beach. (National CleanUp Day)
- Dive deeper into climate topics. Pick three episodes from the Green Dreamer podcast to learn more about these important issues.
- Need a weekend away from the city? Visit National Parks! This helps provide funding to protect these beautiful spots in nature. It’s also an educational way to learn about the environment.
- Join a community garden and invite your neighbors. This is an educational and fun way to learn about our relationship with food and the planet. Here are some tips and tricks if you’re looking to start one.
- Watch a documentary that shares the diverse range of stories of climate change effects.
4 to 8 Hours
- Sign up for a farmer training program and learn more about regenerative agriculture. You can do this in urban areas as well! Start with Rodale Institute’s programs and Farmer Rishi’s gardening groups.
- Organize a local meeting to discuss climate action. Use 350.org’s training resources to help you get started!
- Read more about Indigenous stewardship and wisdom to guide your own practice. Check out Braiding Sweetgrass and then listen to this podcast.
- Learn about food infrastructure and modern day oil and gas extraction in the United States. These are interconnected! Food and shale production map here.
Continuous Action
- Send emails to your senators to demand climate action.
- Learn how to write a successful letter to the editor on a climate issue you’re passionate about.
- Be a climate voter – vote for candidates who accept the science of climate change and are committed to addressing it
- Sign petitions that protect indigenous lands in your area. (Here’s one to start!)
- Host a screening party with friends or family and watch documentaries focused on specific climate change and environmental issues. Start with An Inconvenient Truth, Before the Flood, Kiss the Ground & Eating Animals.
- Read up on the Endangered Species Act and search petitions to protect it!
- Improve air quality testing systems in your community! Follow this step-by-step guide which is ideal for small city budgets!
- Elect local representatives who speak to climate concerns and using renewable energies.
