The Global Warming Survival Guide
Can one person slow global warming? Actually, yes. You—along with scientists, businesses and governments—can create paths to cut carbon emissions. Here is our guide to some of the planet's best ideas.
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What You Can Do
- Turn Food Into Fuel
- Get Blueprints For a Green House
- Change Your Lightbulbs
- Light Up Your City
- Pay the Carbon Tax
- Ditch the Mansion
- Hang Up a Clothes Line
- Give New Life to Your Old Fleece
- Build a Skyscraper
- Turn Up the Geothermal Heat
- Take Another Look at Vintage Clothes
- Capture the Carbon
- Let Employees Work Close to Home
- Ride the Bus
- Move to a High-Rise
- Pay Your Bills Online
- Open a Window
- Ask the Experts For An Energy Audit of Your Home
- Buy Green Power, At Home or Away
- Check the Label
- Cozy Up to Your Water Heater
- Skip the Steak
- Copy California
- Just Say No to Plastic Bags
- Support your local farmer
- Plant a bamboo fence
- Straighten up and fly right
- Have a green wedding
- Remove the tie
- Shut off your computer
- Wear green eye shadow
- Kill the Lights At Quitting Time
- Rearrange the Heavens and the Earth
- Rake in the Fall Colors
- End the Paper Chase
- Play the Market
- Think Outside the Packaging
- Trade Carbon for Capital
- Make Your Garden Grow
- Get a Carbon Budget
- Fill'er Up With Passengers
- Pay For Your Carbon Sins
- Move to London's New Green Zone
- Check Your Tires
- Make One Right Turn After Another
- Plant a Tree in the Tropics
- If You Must Burn Coal, Do it Right
- Drive Green on the Scenic Route
- Set a Higher Standard
- Be aggressive about passive
- Consume Less, Share More, Live Simply
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