What Can One Person Do About Climate Change?


This is a great opinion piece in the Washington Post today:  Now it is up to us to Save the Planet

It is.  And collectively we CAN and MUST take action

As I see it, our individual action falls into three categories:

1.  The Energy We Use
2.  Soil
3.  What We Buy (and What We Throw Away)

More on each of these in the days to come.

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