"What YOU can do!" program

People always say they want to do something to help with Climate Change, but they do not exactly know what to do. Also they feel that whatever they do will not count on such a big problem.

So they think that Climate Change is only a problem of Governments, Scientists and Industries. I completely disagree with this way of thinking. Governments, Scientists and Industries are already starting to solve the problems and their big obstacle is to convince people to follow them.

We are the consumer, it's up to us to decide how much of resources we want to use and waste and how much CO2 we want to emit with our cars and household energy consumption. It is up to each one of us to start taking steps to save.

If one person can save 5 (energy, gasoline, materials, etc), 10.000 people will save 50.000. Now 5 is not a big number, but 50.000 it is.

The biggest effort for each one of us is not to start saving, but is to find the motivation and to start thinking outside of our life boundaries. It definitely feels more easy, safe and cozy to think only of our little world. So in my blog I will try to make your little world more sustainable too.

Forget about climate change, if it is too big of a challenge.

Let's focus on making our lives have less of an impact on our surroundings, in other words let's focus on “What YOU can do!”.


Following there is a list of actions that we all can do. Each action has a letter or a number. To navigate the Blog look for this numbers and letters in the "labels" of each post as a guide.

Actions aimed to directly lower your carbon footprint in order of importance:

1) Understand Climate Change and Carbon Footprint. Calculate your carbon footprint and commit to reduce it and to talk to your friends, family members and colleagues. Start a group in your community.
2) Save Energy in the house, remodel/build house with Energy Efficiency in mind and use green renewable energy.
3) Save Gasoline, use energy efficient vehicles with energy efficient clean fuel/power. Use green public transportation.
4) Start to Reuse-Reduce-Recycle and buy products made out of recycled materials or produced in a sustainable way.
5) Calculate your water footprint and Save Water. Promote sustainable agriculture.

Other general action to consider which are very important:

A) Lower as much as possible our dependence on fossil fuels
B) Protect environments that absorb CO2 (forest, ocean, soil, etc)
C) Invest in research
D) Protect food/water sources
E) Green your work place
F) Promote telecommuting, create green jobs and/or retrain workers
G) Teach the Kids
H) Protect and help the poor
I) Get ready for Emergency
J) Volunteer for a good cause

I'm ready!
Are you ready?