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Reducing Your Climate ImpactReducing Your Climate ImpactClimate Masters at Home



CO2

* acts as an increasingly

heavy heat-trapping

³blanket´ around the Earth

*Along with less abundant greenhouse gases such as methane,

N20, and others

Climate Change



� Likely temp increase of 2-4o

F (1-2o

C) by 2040 and 6-8o

F (3-4o

C) by2080.

� Average summer temps up by 4-6o F

� Major storm events will increase in intensity

� Annual precipitation not likely to change but more falling in

winter/spring and less in summer/fall

� Snowpack projected to decline by 60% by 2040 and 90% by 2095.� Wildfire will increase especially in low elevations causing shift to

hardwoods

� Increase in climate related diseases

� Shift in plant and animal species

Projected Impacts



What You can Do To Reduce Your

Emissions?y Home Energy Use

y Transportation

y Food

y Waste & Recycling

y Yard Activities

y Water Use



Transportation Ranking

http://www.sightline.org/maps/charts/climate-CO2byMode



Calculator

Car Miles = Single Driver = .86 lbs./mi

Family ( of 4)= .22 lbs/mi

Train = .35 lbs./mi

Bus = .42 lbs./mi

Plane = 1.26 per passenger mile

(Department of the Environment ² Britain)

Credits = +1.29 lbs./mi for Biking or Walking



Analyze Your Consumption

y Look At YourDecisions««..

Cloth vs. Disposable

Paper vs. Plastic

Disposable Cups

Paper Use

Styrofoam

Cotton vs. Synthetic,

what about organiccotton

yUse More Than Once

Recycled Content

Buy It Used

Repair Stuff

Regift Things

Buy Durable Goods

CLOSE THE LOOP



- 49 lbs. CO2, 39 times the weight of the shoes

- Travels nearly 20,000 miles - equivalent of roundtrip from

DC to Sydney

- 7 ounces of waste produced (not including rubber extraction)

- consumes 21 kWh energy - equivalent of 18 watt light

burning for 49 days, all day

http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/footprint/index.jsp

Embodied Emissions



Waste & Recycling

y Throwaway Culture

y Measure Your Trash

y Reduce Paper Use

y Increase Recycling

y Increase ¶Pre-cycling·

y

Buy Lessy Reduce Your Garbage 2 month



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Food



Food Miles and Energy

Conservationy In the U.S., food travels an average of 1,300 to

2,000 miles between the farm and a consumer.

Approximately 11% is from food miles.

y 83% of food Co2e is from production



Dinner Last Night

yWhat did you eat for dinner last night?

Where did the ingredients come from?

y Organic?

y Local?

y 100 mile food challenge

y Resource: Michael Pollans books ( Future

of Food & Omnivore·s Dilemna)



US Department of Energy: 2005 Building Energy Data Book, Table 4.2.1,http://www1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/home_energy.html

Home Energy



Conducting A Home Energy Review

Locating Air Leaks

Insulation

Heating & Cooling

Lighting

Appliances

Laundry & Dishes

Water

Computers &

Electronics



What About Your Yard?

y Use of Organic Material

y Composting

y Grasscycling

yWildlife Friendly

y Native Plants (less water, hardy)

y Growing Organic Food

y Save Water



Tips for Simplifying or Making

Different Choicesy Know Your Footprint

y Take Stalk of Money &What You DoWith It

y Spend Time & LearnFromNature«..Recreate &Rejuvenate

y Simplify, simplify,simplify.

y Reduce stuff, clutter

y Practice the GiveawayCeremony often

y Evaluate Your Stuff & If You Are Trading TimeFor Stuff

y Spend Time LearningAbout Other People &

Creatures & TheirNeeds

y Develop A DeepRespect For All Things

y Come From A Place of

Gratitude



Climate Master Training

� Free/low cost 30-hour training program

� ³Payment´ of 30-hours volunteer outreach

� Focus on home/yard, transportation, general

consumption, food and waste

� Consultation and communication training



Junior Climate

Stewards

http://blog.biomicrofluidics.org/CLEAN/Compact_Fluorescent_ Light_Bulb.jpg



� Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI)

www.climateleadership.org (541) 346-0786 or

[email protected]

� Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

www.ipcc.ch/

� Climate Crisis Coalition newsfeed

www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/

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