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Communicating with industry to mitigate climate change
Communication, Industry, Interviews, Minimization/mitigation, Politics Can we successfully communicate with industry about their greenhouse gas emissions? In May, 2024, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the...
Our Own, Amazing Lisa Howard!
Our own Lisa Howard, CSteps' website designer (YAY!), a good friend, and the California State Coordinator for Citizen Climate Lobby (CCL), is interviewed here in this podcast, and she is Marvelous. The first 30 minutes...
Let it Shine: Creative Ways to Use Solar Energy for Your Property
Image source: Deposit photos Guest author: Annie Button, UK Earth Hour 2024, on the 23rd March at 8:30 pm, is an important moment to set aside to reflect on our collective use of energy and how it impacts our environment....
How to Create an Impactful Ripple Effect through Effective Communication
As the world continues to warm, we must take whatever steps we can to slow down and then stop that process. And although we as individuals can definitely take worthwhile steps, we can achieve greater success if more of us...
Better access to fresh, local food helps your community fight climate change
A wonderful, essential concept to build your community around is food. There are three main areas in which we can do so. First, by working with our neighbors to improve our community’s access to local, fresh food, we can...
Our Games Resource Page has been updated and expanded!
Good news, Climate Steppers! We have updated and greatly expanded our Games Resource Page with more climate action and environmental games, with some help from Wikipedia (more below). The games we’ve chosen educate players...
It’s Time to Go Further on Your Climate Action Journey
Use these six main categories of action to guide your next steps. Given the urgency of the climate emergency, we need to all step up our climate action game. As Somini Sengupta, Global Correspondent for Climate at the...
A Warm Welcome to New Team Members, and a Thank You to Previous and Continuing Folks
I should have posted something along these lines a while ago, especially when we had three Carleton University interns help us (Azka, Anshika, and Mihir) and a number of other volunteers. But no time like the present to...
Pollinating Ideas and Planting their Seeds
We are in the first week of June and the global atmospheric CO2 level is 424.44 ppm, as compared to 420.69 ppm a year ago. When I was born in 1954, the average was 313.20 ppm. For the past several weeks, there've...
It’s Not Too Late to Turn the Tide on Climate
That is, if everyone, everywhere, acts all at once on Climate. Here's what you can do. Have you been wondering – or maybe worrying – if it’s possible to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by half by 2030 and to...
An Earth Day 2040 Climate Vision for a Healthy Planet
Note from Climate Steps Founder and Editor, Dr. Annette Olson: We welcome Dr. Krista Kurth as a regular contributor to Climate Steps. She will be sharing her articles with us, as well as on her own site:...
A Reflection: Planning our Own Climate Actions – Plastic Pollution, in this case
An individual reflection on climate steps and actions to combat our contributing to plastic pollution Happy New Year and Happy Lunar New Year! Like many, I am grateful for so much presently in my life, yet I can...
Our Social/Community-level Actions are Here!
NEWS! - Mark Stewart has just wound up a series of pages about the impact of individuals leading and joining COMMUNITIES in terms of fighting the climate crisis - and adapting to climate disasters. So check out our new...
What is Your Next Step?
What is your next step? Whatever you think about or whatever decisions you make will basically be steps (some small and some big) that you’ll take from the moment you wake up in the morning til you fall asleep at night.
Protests and Petitions
Here are some views and suggestions while we work to get an intern/volunteer to help us write this section! Protests and marches are mostly attempts at a one-way form of communication to our representatives and the media....
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