What can I do?

"We are not powerless. Our generation is the first with the knowledge, skills and technology to prevent catastrophic climate change - but the last that can do so. It is up to us to decide if we have a future or not." Team Stupid

• Don’t take that flight! Get there another way.
• Switch to a green electricity supplier E.G. in UK: Ecotricity, Good Energy or Green Energy
• Have one day a week when you don’t use your car at all.
• Meat-free Monday: Have one day a week when you don’t eat meat at all.
• Turn off the tap while you’re brushing your teeth. Turn down your thermostat and have no heating on in the late spring and summer.

Pledge to cut your own emissions at www.1010uk.org today. By committing to cut your emissions by 10% in 2010, you will join thousands of individuals, schools, hospitals, businesses etc…

Protest:

Join the Wave - a fun, family-friendly event on Saturday 5 December where tens of thousands of people and over 100 organisations will flow through the streets of London, all dressed in blue, to demonstrate their support for a safe climate future for all. Find out more

Sign up to t he UN-led Seal the Deal Campaign which aims to galvanize political will and public support for reaching a comprehensive global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December www.sealthedeal2009.org

Do more at www.greenpeace.org.uk/what-you-can-do

Spread the Word:

Without public support for both top-down climate laws and bottom-up social change, we're toast. We all need to start talking about climate change all the time. Start a blog, hold a debate at school, write letters to the papers, mount a photo exhibition, sing songs, paint paintings, organise a screening of a climate film starring Pete Postlethwaite... www.notstupid.org/spread-the-word

Or show for free off the web: an 11 minute animated film about the feedback loops likely to lead to catastrophic climate change, by Leo Murray. The film and its script, with extensive peer-reviewed references and additional information and links, is available at wakeupfreakout.org

Cut your emissions:

Cutting your personal emissions by a factor of ten can be a daunting and unappetising prospect - but sooner or later, it is something we are all going to have to do, and many of the changes bring all kinds of other benefits.

For example you can get fit cycling to work, get a healthier diet with lots of local fresh fruit and veg, treat a train journey as part of your holiday adventure and make your home cosier and cheaper to run. www.energysavingtrust.org.uk

Help those suffering from the effects of climate change:

www.oxfam.org.uk

Help re-think society:

There are different ways to imagine society. Team Stupid prefers to see society as the joint product of everyone who chooses to actively participate in it – otherwise known as citizenship. http://www.notstupid.org/rethink-society

Transition Towns – www.transitiontowns.org

Low Carbon Communities – lowcarboncommunity.org

OneClimate - www.oneclimate.net

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