Make Good Decisions

This infographic shows climate choices. Credit: Seth Wynes/Kimberly Nicholas, Environmental Research Letters, 2017 from phys.org

This slide represents the 80 solutions, taken together, that would achieve drawdown: "the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline." Project Drawdown is the world's most complete resource for climate solutions. Image Source

For the Individual: How Can YOU Make a Difference?

No-Brainer Strategies to Defeat Climate Change

Net-Zero = Offset Any & All Emissions

This strategy is being deployed by Google, as well as many oil-dependent industries. Here's a way for you to try it too: goldstandard.org

Carbon Storage in Buildings & Wood Products

It's not news that trees and plants like bamboo can sequester carbon from the atmosphere surprisingly well. But, what happens when they get old and die? Well, the carbon cycle tells us that they will rot and become new nutrients for the forest floor. This is a good thing for forests, but it really is a no-brainer that we should use wood to store carbon rather than let it release it when the tree rots or burns in a wildfire, especially if we're cutting so much anyways. This is is why selection silviculture - not clear-cutting or high-grading - is a good practice to support when buying lumber for a construction project.

Green Planning of Public Spaces

If anyone reading this is interested in urban planning, here's a report from Deloitte that discusses how much quicker cities need to act to achieve SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities. It's obvious that healthy living environments require tree canopies, natural ecosystem restoration and plenty of space for outdoor activities other than driving, but - in practice - cities have only just started to redesign themselves.

Biomimicry in Design

This strategy is vital for changing the way we educate those who create our physical world: engineers, architects, designers, urban planners and inventors (learn more: https://www.youtube.com/embed/iMtXqTmfta0).


Live in an Eco-Village

You don't need to be a perma-culture expert to start an eco-village. Perhaps you don't even need to start one at all! This website ecovillage.org can be a good first starting point for those interested in learning more about how people can live a life entirely within the Earth's capacity to provide our basic needs, while maintaining many of the luxuries you may want.

Scale Up "Green" Data Centers (Servers)