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The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone

English

By (author): Heidi Roop

What can I do, personally, about the climate crisis? . . . Ask yourself, what are you passionate about? Using this passion may motivate you to help shape the future of your community.
The New York Times Climate Forward newsletter

This must-have book shows us WHY we need to take action now to combat climate change and then, critically, HOW, through easy-to-understand language and fascinating infographics that offer each of us varied and doable solutions to the many challenges facing our planet.

As more focus is put on climate science, there is a need for each of us to learn how we can change our habits in our home, communities, and government to save our planet. Enter The Climate Action Handbook.

A visually stunning guide, it does what no other climate change book manages to do: it's approachable, digestible, and offers the average person ideas, options, and a roadmap for action. It also offers hopeoften overlooked in climate change conversations. Climate actions can create near-instantaneous improvements in air quality and can offer ways to address societal inequities, green our communities, save money, and build local economies.

From food and fashion choices, rethinking travel, greening up our homes and gardens, to civic engagement and championing community climate planning, Dr. Heidi Roop shares 100 wide-ranging ways that readers from all walks of life can help move the needle in the right direction. 

Actions include:
Cutting down on food waste
Reducing your driving speed
Voting in every election
Using the cold-water cycle on your washing machine
Supporting healthy soils in your gardens and community green spaces
Engaging in local climate action planning
Preparing an emergency kit for your home
Deleting unused emails and online accounts
Swapping out milk for nondairy alternatives like oat milk
Opting for slower shipping whenever possible
Regularly maintaining and clean your heating and cooling systems
Engaging in climate conversations at work and at home
And many more!

Return to this invaluable resource again and again to discover a roadmap for action and much-needed hope. What will your climate journey look like? See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 391g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2023
  • Publisher: Blue Star Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781632174147

About Heidi Roop

DR. HEIDI ROOP is the Director of the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership and an Assistant Professor of Climate Science and Extension Specialist at the University of Minnesota. Her research and Extension programs combine cutting-edge climate science and effective science communication to increase the use and integration of climate change information in decision-making at a range of scalesfrom city and state to national and international levels. Her climate science research takes her around the world from Antarctica to California to the shores of Lake Superior. She is also an affiliate assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington and serves as an expert advisor to organizations and agencies as they seek to build resilience to climate change.JOSHUA M. POWELL is the author of The Pacific Crest Trail: A Visual Compendium. He works as a graphic designer and lives in the Inland Northwest with his wife and son.

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