What You Can Do
Kathleen Rogers, President, EARTHDAY.ORG
1. “Vote for candidates who have ambitious, convincing plans to protect our planet. The League of Conservation Voters and many states publish scorecards that summarize candidates’ positions.”
The League of Conservation Voters has an information-rich website, including state candidate climate scorecards.
2. “Recruit five people to act with you. Sign petitions, do cleanups, participate in town hall meetings, demand that governments and corporations do right by the environment. Together we can create a movement.”
350.org invites you to start or register your group.
The Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore, offers a template for organizing community groups. Members of their County Climate Coalition support The Paris Agreement.
The Climate Mobilization offers a toolkit for starting and mobilizing your local group.
Fridays for Future started when Greta Thunberg staged a climate strike; you can organize your own local climate strike and Fridays for Future will publicize it on their website.
The Save Movement gives a checklist for starting a Climate Save group.
The People’s Climate Movement says “To change everything, we need everyone.”
3. “Join EARTHDAY.ORG’s Earth Challenge, which invites kids and adults to collect information about biodiversity, pollution, air, water and human health. Everyone uses a standard method, and all the information goes into one database, for use by scientists everywhere.”
EARTHDAY.ORG’s citizen science project needs your help!
4. “Practice what you preach. Once you get going it isn’t that hard. And don’t feel guilty. Governments and corporations bear most of the responsibility. That’s where voting comes into play.”
Vote Climate ranks your national elected officials (and their opponents during election years) according to their positions on climate.
5. “Knowledge is power.”
EARTHDAY.ORG’s website is full of climate information, including ways to become involved.
Yale Climate Connections produces daily radio shows, articles, reviews, analysis, and podcasts about how climate change is affecting our lives.
6. “Help offset deforestation by donating to EARTHDAY.ORG’s Canopy Project where $1US = 1 tree. A single tree absorbs a ton of carbon dioxide during its lifetime.”
Everything you want and need to know about The Canopy Project.