Actions To Take As a Family or as an Individual
1. Plant a tree.
2. Pick up trash.
3. Recycle your clothes. Americans throw away about 80 pounds of clothing a year.
4. Plant a vegetable garden.
5. Keep your tires properly inflated.
6. Wash your car at a self serve car wash rather than at home. These stations
use around 12-18 gallons of water compared to up to 100 gallons at home.
7. Check your gas cap for leaks and cracks which allow gas to escape as vapor.
Leaks waste fuel and money.
8. Turn off your car engine if stopped for more than 10 seconds. Idling your car
uses fuel and contributes to air pollution.
9. Support a carbon tax. This fee is imposed on burning of carbon-based fuels
like coal, gas and oil. It is a way for users of carbon fuel to pay for climate
damage caused by releasing CO2 into the atmosphere and hopefully an
incentive to motivate companies to switch to non carbon fuel and energy
efficiency.
10. Visualize Earth from space. Remember our planet is fragile.
11. Install solar panels.
12. Walk and cycle more; drive only when necessary.
13. Demand strict emission controls and fuel efficiency on all vehicles.
14. Our world will be whole and healed tomorrow if we pay attention. Slow down.
Find your voice.
1. Plant a tree.
2. Pick up trash.
3. Recycle your clothes. Americans throw away about 80 pounds of clothing a year.
4. Plant a vegetable garden.
5. Keep your tires properly inflated.
6. Wash your car at a self serve car wash rather than at home. These stations
use around 12-18 gallons of water compared to up to 100 gallons at home.
7. Check your gas cap for leaks and cracks which allow gas to escape as vapor.
Leaks waste fuel and money.
8. Turn off your car engine if stopped for more than 10 seconds. Idling your car
uses fuel and contributes to air pollution.
9. Support a carbon tax. This fee is imposed on burning of carbon-based fuels
like coal, gas and oil. It is a way for users of carbon fuel to pay for climate
damage caused by releasing CO2 into the atmosphere and hopefully an
incentive to motivate companies to switch to non carbon fuel and energy
efficiency.
10. Visualize Earth from space. Remember our planet is fragile.
11. Install solar panels.
12. Walk and cycle more; drive only when necessary.
13. Demand strict emission controls and fuel efficiency on all vehicles.
14. Our world will be whole and healed tomorrow if we pay attention. Slow down.
Find your voice.