Quick Climate Comments in Conversation
Here are some ways to casually throw climate change into a conversation. This may lead to more discussion, or it may end there. What’s important is to bring up climate change whenever you can.
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Retrofitting Your Home to Save on Fuel Costs and Reduce Emissions
The three main reasons to retrofit your house are: 1) savings on heating and cooling bills; 2) a more comfortable home with fewer drafts, and 3) reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Why We Don’t Engage With Climate Change
This week, I’d like to provide a breakdown of the comments people submitted to me via Facebook and email to my question: “Why isn’t there more engagement with climate change?” I was delighted by the number of responses — at last count, more than 80 — and by their eloquence and perceptiveness. This strongly suggests … Read more
Guy Hanchet leads a Kitchen Table Climate Conversation
Here is a recording of a variation of a Kitchen Table Climate Conversation that was tailored for use at the Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough on March 4, 2021. We can learn some of what works well and what doesn’t work and what improvements we can make.
Climate solutions: A hopeful primer
Last week I looked at the scientific facts about the climate crisis – a problem that will prove to be far worse than the pandemic. This week I’d like to turn to the solutions. Here’s the challenge: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in order to avoid catastrophic impacts, warming must be limited … Read more
Township Climate Advocates needed for Peterborough County
For Our Grandchildren is acting locally in Peterborough County to persuade the First Nations and Townships to take assertive, appropriate action in implementing their Climate Change Action Plans. It’s important because the emissions from the communities that make up Peterborough County add up to almost the same as the emissions from Peterborough City. But the actions needed … Read more
21 Ideas for 2021
New Year’s resolutions are terrific. But not everyone uses the same calendar or counts the years by the Earth’s rotations around the sun And any time is a good time to do better. Here are 21 ideas from the David Suzuki Foundation for things you can do for yourself and the ecosystems that sustain you … Read more
