by Catie Carter | Jul 20, 2025 | Article, Buildings, Education, Minimization/mitigation, Outside, Parents, Teachers, & Kids, Personal Behavior, System Change, Uncategorized
In 2019, the U.S Census Bureau found that students make up 25% of the population ages three and older in the United States. Because such a large portion of the population spends significant time in classrooms, it is evident that schools are an incredibly important...
by Krista Kurth | Feb 24, 2025 | Article, Column - Krista's, Songs, Songs, Uncategorized
50 plus climate action poems and songs to support us along the way. Recently both the smoke-filled skies and the news, with all its climate doom and gloom and intellectual discourse on technological and scientific solutions, has been getting me down. I needed...
by Annette Olson | Aug 27, 2024 | Article, Culture Change, Event, Interviews, Outdoors, Parents, Teachers, & Kids, Personal Behavior, Planning, Politics
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 is about communication about climate...
by Earth Hero | Oct 4, 2023 | At home, Displayable EH Action, Parents, Teachers, & Kids
Though Easter egg hunts began in Germany in the 16th century, they were popularized by in the 1800s at Kensington Palace in England. They are a fun activity that people of all ages can enjoy. Make them even better by reducing the usage of polluting single-use plastic!...
by Mark Stewart | Sep 28, 2023 | Article, At home, Community, Economics/Business, Education, Energy, Parents, Teachers, & Kids, Planning, Resources, survival/adaptation
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 about the science of climate change, the...
by Krista Kurth | Aug 17, 2023 | Article, At home, Column - Krista's, Community, Education, Message, Planning, Resources
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 NYTimes, when asked by others what to do in...