Our Climate Team works to energize people to learn about and protect our environment in a multiplicity of innovative ways including hosting a climate café, a Trees are Treasures and other Earth Day events, and by raising funds to purchase books on the environment for local libraries. Send questions or ideas to climate@grassrootscentralmass.org.
With donations from members and friends of Grassroots Central Mass, we were able to place books in the Spencer, North Brookfield, West Brookfield, Leicester, Brimfield, and Southbridge public libraries.
Other Online Climate Change Resources
Public Opinion Surveys
American Public Opinion on Global Warming (Yale University, Jan 2020)
Are people ready for net zero? (Climate Outreach, May 2019)
How alarmed is the public about global warming? (CNN, Jan 2020)
Education and Individual How-To
Resources for Teachers (IPCC Office for Climate Education, Dec 2018)
Talking to kids about climate (Natural Resources Defense Council, Dec 2019)
How to help the environment (Huffington Post, Apr 2021)
How to reduce your transportation footprint (Center for Climate and Energy Solutions)
How to reduce air pollution (US Environmental Protection Agency, Aug 2022)
Ten steps to personal resilience (Good Grief Network)
Eight tips for managing eco-anxiety (New Scientist, Oct 2019)
Global Climate
Timeline of climate change (American Institute of Physics, Apr 2022)
Facts about climate change (Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Feb 2021)
Myths about climate change (New Scientist, May 2007)
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (United Nations)
Viable global climate solutions (Project Drawdown)
Fossil Fuels
Global Warming – So What? A Library about Climate Change by GCM member and climate scientist Gene Fry
Divestment Movement to combat climate change (The New Yorker, possible paywall, Sept 2018)
Fossil Fuel Report Cards (Indigenous Environmental Network, 2020)
Country by Country Fossil Fuel Subsidies (International Monetary Fund, May 2019)
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Fact Sheet (Environmental and Energy Study Institute, July 2019)
Recycling
Glass recycling in the US is broken (Chemical and Engineering News, Feb 2019)
Recycling in the US (New York Times, possible paywall, May 2018)
Inspirational Climate Leaders
Greta Thunberg (Wikipedia)
Al Gore (Wikipedia)
Summary of our Jan 22, 2020 Climate Change Café
Actions to take
Stop the money pipeline of fossil fuels
Divest from fossil fuels in MA