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 NYTimes, when asked by others what to do in...
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: https://www.climateactionforeverydaypeople.com/. As you can...
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 front of my house (see left), but there...
A Quick Update on The3Engineers, Who Figured Things Out with a Book
I want to congratulate Nick, Matt, and Jon, three submarine engineers who I wrote about in a three-part series as examples of people who have decided to change their lives to support the environment. Their first children’s environmental book just came out, with...
Tiny Houses Fight Global Warming
Tiny houses have been around for as long as humans have sought shelter, but lately they are becoming a more popular choice in housing internationally, offering alternatives for people who want their own house but, for a variety of reasons, don’t want a traditional, single-family home.