Your Personal Action Guide for the Environment

Solving our biggest environmental problems will require huge changes in policy and business practice. But it turns out that our personal actions can help too if we focus on the right things. Here are some places to start.

As an environmental scientist, I get asked a lot of questions. Often, people want to know how they can help reduce their impact on the environment.

We can do a lot, of course. But it’s important to recognize that we can’t do everything as individuals. The systems we’re working to change are enormous, and our personal actions simply can’t do it all. We really need new policies, new technologies, new markets and business approaches, and new political and social movements.

In these areas, voting might be one of the most important things we can do. And, as Dr. Katharine Hayhoe often says, learning and talking about environmental issues may be another. (By the way, Project Drawdown, where I work, is a great resource for information about climate solutions.)

But our individual actions can help too, and together, they can be part of the solutions we need.

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