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The Climate Change Personal
Action Chart
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88kb)
First fill in the checklist:
Column A: I'm already doing this
Column B: Does this idea appeal to me?
Column C: Is this something I could do within the next
month?
Column D: Is this something I could start on within a
week?
Then circle your Top 3 Ideas and answer the questions
below.
| Climate Change: Ideas for
Personal Action |
A
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B
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C
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D
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1. Do some more reading, to learn more
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2. Rent An Inconvenient Truth, and invite
my friends to watch it
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| 3. Join a local group, make a donation &
attend the next meeting (eg BC
Sustainable Energy Association, Sierra Club, etc.) |
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4. Fit my home with 10 energy efficient
light bulbs
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| 5. Research the cost of replacing my most
energy-consuming appliances |
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6. Change the way I travel, so that I use
less fuel
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| 7. Write to my MP, MPP or MLA, and urge
them to do more |
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| 8. Talk to someone I know who could make
a difference: ......................................................................... |
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| 9. Organize a small Climate Group for my
friends and neighbours |
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| 10. Join a Car-Sharing or Cycling Advocacy
Group |
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| 11. Research the cost to retrofit my home,
to make it more efficient |
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| 12. Research the cost to install a solar
hot water system on my roof |
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| 13. Write a letter to the paper the next
time a climate story comes up |
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| 14. Join a political party, and work to
improve their climate policies |
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| 15. Reduce the amount of meat I eat, and
eat more local organic food |
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| 16. Become Carbon Neutral. Calculate my
annual emissions and buy offsets |
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| 17. Make the choice to live more simply,
and consume less stuff. How? |
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| 18. Call a friend to talk to him or her
about these personal actions |
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| 19. Give a video or book on climate change
to a friend as a gift |
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Personal Action #1:
Idea: ______________________________________________________
What's my First Step?
___________________________________________________________
Who will help me?
___________________________________________________________
Personal Action #2:
Idea: ______________________________________________________
What's my First Step?
___________________________________________________________
Who will help me?
___________________________________________________________
Personal Action #3:
Idea: ______________________________________________________
What's my First Step?
___________________________________________________________
Who will help me?
___________________________________________________________
Created by Guy Dauncey - January 2007
Please feel free to copy, adapt, and use
BC Sustainable Energy Association - www.bcsea.org
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