Things to Do

1. TAKE ACTION – Tips for ordinary People and business owners

Join a local group

• SCCAN – paulineseales120@gmail.com,      CCL – Lynda Marin – lmarin@cruzio.com
• Talk to City Council / Supervisors  ,  Contact state & national reps
• Demand EMERGENCY ACTION NOW – see page
• Join Support GREEN NEW DEAL  And Climate Safe California
• Join Youth for Climate Justice 

2. At WORK, SCHOOL, HOME

• Reduce FOOD WASTE and packaging waste.
• Be observant and reduce/report wastage of food, energy, materials or, excess plastic use 

3. TRANSPORT

• Whenever possible use a bus, bike, e-bike or carpool or TELECOMMUTE
• Used 3 year old electric cars are a great deal – low price, low maintenance, very low emissions
• REDUCE FLYING – use Zoom or similar for 2/3 meetings whether business or family.
• Take vacations by bus/train or closer to home

4. HOME OR BUSINESS ENERGY

• Sign up for COMMUNITY POWER – clean locally run – for Monterey Bay area Central Coast Community Energy
• Support local resilient micro-grids
• Adjust thermostat to 68F winter, (A/C 75F summer) Close doors/windows if using energy
• Use LED lights – Switch OFF things not used
• Install Efficient Electric appliances (not Gas) – new gas hook-ups now banned in Santa Cruz and many cities

5. Adjust your DIET

• eat LOCAL, mostly organics,  eat MORE fruit and veg
• LESS MEAT (espec. Beef and pork)  details and links here

6. Recycle

• REUSE when possible. Buy LESS new stuff
• Look for RECYCLABLE packaging, COMPOST organics at home

7. VOTE for those who will make CHANGES!

8. Learn & Talk – there’s HOPE

• Check DRAWDOWN drawdown.org   and our several drawdown pages
• Learn and share worldwide solutions – see recent IPCC page
• TALK and LISTEN and share feelings – talk to parents, friends, neighbors etc.

9. Support Climate Smart Ag aka Regenerative Ag and other ways to take CO2 out of the air

updated 9/18/21