There aren’t many with as fine a voice as Paul McCartney’s. He’s using it to take us to task for our weakness at fighting climate change, in this video, made with his family. The short film is an absolutely lovely piece of work, like much that McCartney has created. He’s also strong in advocating, as a longtime vegetarian, for a meat free diet…  a big tool in humanity’s fight against the emerging climate crisis. How does that work?  A meat-free or meat-once-in-awhile diet is a very strong global warming solution, ranking fourth of the 100 most-effective climate wins in Project Drawdown’s 2017 ..read more

Hi folks… If you are busy, a single and reliable news source about climate trends and solutions is a useful thing. Here are two I recommend: The first is The Daily Climate, a publication of Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to driving science into public discussion and policy on environmental health issues, including climate change. You can get your update even more easily by signing up to receive their daily summary via email. The second news source I like is the weekly summary from Skeptical Science, prepared by John Hartz.  A typical week is roug ..read more

Hello friends… you are here because you asked yourself, “How do I do my part?” It’s OK to start small, but get moving immediately… even in modest ways in your day to day life.  Have confidence that you will learn as you go along. As a critical early step, gather courage by getting to know your sources of personal power, your warrior powers, really… “To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First” “To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life” “To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice” It can transform your life to know that you have absolute control in these ways.  Cast aside the learned helplessness ..read more

As a kid, I always watched the grown ups… Like a young hawk, I absorbed the examples they set:  They showed me how I should live, what leadership looks like.  They showed me that I have power and a voice. The roles have flipped now that we are adults – its our turn:   Setting a good example for kids on climate change solutions is a powerful, powerful way to use one’s voice. We can set them on the path to low carbon-footprint habits that will last their entire lives. But an even more high-value skill is that they learn to confidently speak out and be civic leaders, as their global warming era u ..read more

Today, Monday April 22, is the actual Earth Day and a day of volunteerism… a moment for us to reflect: Isn’t how we make our big, lifetime ‘work choices’ a kind of volunteerism, if done with intention for the good of our community now and our children’s world later? Two thousand eighty hours per year is a LOT of muscle, and we can choose to invest our working lives in fields that are meaningful – directly in ‘clean jobs’ like the solar installer in the photo, or indirectly like staff or backoffice jobs in the many emerging clean, green companies. Or, sadly, we can get stuck in fields which we ..read more

There is a new symbol going around: The Climate Flag, created by artists in San Francisco, California. Any one of us can download the .pdf to make bumper stickers, buttons, web badges. Or, for rallies, we can get together with friends, have a party, and make a cloth flag!  As the saying goes, “To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice.” (If you can, please make a donation… the artists use the cash to make more cloth flags.) Here’s what the creators say about the design, and their wise purpose: “WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?” “Local. Visual. Global.” “Raising the Climate Flag is a positive action we can do to ..read more