We all have been constantly blogging and talking about why people should care about climate change, why it is hard to get people to care about climate change and wondering why people have not done anything to stop it. Yet we have not focused on what exactly we can do to help prevent climate change. It is easy to tell people that we need to care about it but the hard part is individually doing something to prevent it. I think that not only do we need people to notice climate change and that it is a problem in our world today but to give them action plans to prevent it. Because without giving people specific examples of what they can to do help, let’s be honest nothing is going to change. Even I can regretfully say that although I know that climate change is happening, and have known for awhile, I have done nothing to change the way I live to prevent it from happening. I can bet that I am not the only one who is doing this either, so I’ve decided to write a blog post on easy ways that you individually can help put a stop to climate change. Because whether you believe it or not your individual actions really do affect what happens in this world. I think it is extremely important for people to write about climate change but you have to “practice what you preach” and start actively doing things to prevent it as well. In order for this to work we have to accept that we are the solution to climate change. Which brings me to a book that I found while researching online called Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! 

Here are a few interesting examples that I found useful from the book Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! by Laurie David. Possibly one of the easiest things that you can do is, “Bring your own reusable cup to Starbucks.” So many of us, including me, indulge on Starbucks at least once a week. If only twenty of us started bringing reusable cups think of all the paper that we could save. It makes a difference! Another example is, “Pull chargers from the wall and turn off computers. If your cell phone, iPod, or digital camera is unplugged from the charger, but the charger is still in the wall, it is draining energy.” Leaving your electronics plugged in or keeping the light on is most likely contributing to global warming pollution and it is an easy fix to reduce this, it takes two seconds! Lastly, start to become active with your community! An example from this book says, “Pay attention to the efforts of companies doing good things and support them. If you own stock in public companies become active in developing resolutions and vote your shares to move companies in the right direction. Companies do listen to these criticisms from their shareholders, even before they gain majority support.” This is an easy way to actively change the choices that companies are making. There are many other ways to be active in your community like supporting local organic farmers etc.

By making small individual changes it can really make a difference in your community. People will see that you are making changes and how easy it really is to change your lifestyle and then they will start to do it as well. There are many other examples that this book gives and I encourage everyone to look at it and choose each week to start doing. We all have to remember that WE are the solution for climate change.