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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....
Dear Earth
A thoughtful poem about accepting who we are and the changes to our lives as climate active-ists. Shared with permission from Dear Earth and Satya Robyn. By Satya Robyn Dear Earth, I am jealous of my brother. He is in...
Protect the Night
People light up the night almost without thinking, as we have for millennia. At the minimal level, we do this instinctively for our survival and protection. But the practice has grown to destructive extremes in modern...
Throw a vegan-ingredient tasting party!
So what’s perhaps the biggest barrier to eating vegan food especially? Probably a lack of familiarity. Many people may see vegan ingredients or dishes in the …
The 10th anniversary of my beautiful green roof! Booyah!
It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years already for the green roof on my house, as of this past weekend. (I was on a train and couldn't write this all out then.) You can get a peek of the greenery from the...
Approaching Industry’s Sustainability Managers
The top 25 multinational companies reported a combined revenue of 3.18 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020, approximately 10% of the total revenue from the world’s largest companies. Their total self-reported greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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