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by Joyce Mercado (Author)
If you want to become a climate protection leader in your community in your spare time, this is your handbook.
Save the Planet in Your Spare Time: The Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person, chronicles the author's journey to becoming an effective activist in her town of Alameda, California, so you can learn from her experience.
The book covers:
- Reducing your emissionsCreating and distributing a climate protection checklist and resource list in your communityWriting for the local pressJumping at opportunities as they present themselvesPartnering with other organizationsBuilding leadership actions into your daily lifeTaking political actionPresenting on climate changeMaintaining your optimism
Leaders influencing others in their communities to protect the climate, community by community, is an essential element in fighting climate change and you can be an effective part of the solution to the climate crisis with the guidance in this handbook.
Anyone can be such a leader, even if you have a busy life. We need thousands of leaders like you in communities across the country and around the world to solve the climate crisis. Together, we can make a difference!
