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On this page you’ll find Climate Radio’s top tips for action you can take at

• individual
• local
• national and
• international

levels to help solve the interlocking problems of climate change, ‘peaking’ fossil fuel supplies, resource wars and overpopulation (phew!).

An emergency move out of oil into renewable energy would have huge benefits in terms of global security, economic stability, economic development and environmental policy. – Dan Plesch

As an Individual

Work out how to minimise your carbon footprint while maximising your quality of life!

Changing your lightbulbs will help and save you money but you need to look at the big picture… For example, if you are someone who takes lots of flights they could wipe out all your other carbon savings.

Visit the best online carbon footprint calculator to take the first step.

How to combine low carbon living with maximum well-being

Support your local farmers market
Find out your nearest one by following these links:
The Organic Directory
Certified Farmers Markets
National Farmers’ Retail & Markets Association
London Farmers Markets
City and Country Farmers Markets (London)
Growing Communities (Hackney)

Sign up for a box scheme
If it’s more convenient have local, seasonal fruit and veg delivered regularly to your door:
Search the Organic Directory
The Ecologist list of box schemes

Eat less meat and dairy produce
Expand your repertoire of healthy, meat-and dairy-free recipes.
Simple vegan recipies
Vegan recipes from around the world

Insulate your home
Cut your energy use drastically and save £100s of pounds. Get a FREE energy check including advice on the grants that are available to everyone – not just those on benefits!

FREE Home Energy Check

Sign up to green electricity
Ecotricity is the only green energy company committed to investing in new renewable energy supplies. Switching is easy: call 08000 326 100 or go to: www.ecotricity.co.uk

Fly less
Take the no-fly pledge, exprience the benefits of slow travel, holiday closer to home…
Take the no-fly pledge
Travel by cargo ship
Arguments for travelling by cargo ship
ecoescape directory of green places to visit and stay in the UK
The Guardian panel’s 10 best UK coastal resorts
UK Marine Conservation Society Good Beach Guide
UK Tourist Information
British journey planner
Green places to stay and visit in Scotland
Across England in a milkfloat
More on milkfloats
Do Nothing
Take a tip from the Situationists
Green Traveller
Online backpacking mag with user-generated content
Ed Gillespie’s round the world Slow Travel blog

Take the train
Taking the train can mean your holiday travel is 30 times more climate-friendly than taking the plane…
Booking train tickets in the UK
Eurostar
European inter-rail passes for all ages
The Man In Seat 61guide to worldwide train travel
Tips for securing low-cost train tickets

Take up cycling
Cycling to work or using a bicycle for local journeys will help keep you fit and mentally alert as well as cutting your dependence on petrol.
Why cycle?
Getting started
Cycle training – improve your confidence on the road

Use public transport
Swap road rage and gridlock for time to read the paper, prepare for a meeting or read a novel.
Transport Direct journey planner

Think about what you do for a living
Could you live better by working less, working differently, consuming less and having more time for yourself?
Part-time work
How to be free – the manifesto
How to be free? Buy the book, of course…

For more tips on reducing your carbon footprint see:
Chris Goodall’s How To Live A Low-Carbon Life
Donnachadh McCarthy’s Saving The Planet Without Costing The Earth

In Your Locality

Multiply the effect of your actions by connecting up with others. Working with others on practical projects is energising.

Transition Towns
The Transition Towns movement is a fast-growing collection of communities who are actively building our post-fossil fuel future. If there’s not one in your locality yet, link up with others and start one.
Transition initiatives in the UK
People mulling it over
Rob Hopkins’ Transition Culture blog

For other groups in your locality check out:
I-Count communities database of local groups
Friends of the Earth local groups

Campaign for a Strong National Framework

Despite its claim of international leadership on climate protection, the government hasn’t worked how out to turn things around and rapidly move away from our dependence on fossil fuels.

It is apparently in denial about the urgency of the problem and the speed with which we need to move. With its commitment to expanding aviation capacity, building more roads and reviving the UK’s coal industry it seems as if our solution as a nation is not just “business as usual” but “more business than usual”.

Carbon dioxide emissions have risen by 2.2% since Labour came to power in 1997. Read all about it

The only way to make sure the government reduces carbon dioxide emissions on a yearly basis is to make it legally binding.

A successful civil society campaign supported by over 50 organisations representing millions of people, has forced the government to introduce a Climate Change Bill into the House of Commons.

The current draft of the Bill needs strengthening if the UK is actually able to play its full and fair role in avoiding dangerous levels of climate change.

Ask your MP to support a strong Climate Change Bill

At the International Level

Learn what’s going on at the United Nations talks – the next annual talks are in Bali, 3-14 December.

It’s important that we get an adequate and fair international agreement that brings down the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as quickly as possible.

Why Kyoto I (2008-2012) is inadequate
The Contraction and Convergence proposal
The Kyoto 2 proposal
The Greenhouse Rights Development Framework

After the Iraq war, if you have any faith in marches, consider joining the Campaign Against Climate Change’s global day of action on December 8^th, which falls half-way through the UN Climate talks.

Read all about it at http://www.campaigncc.org.

Other Action

To join with others in more imaginative ways of raising the issues and galvanising political action check out the Camp for Climate Action.

The camp combines educational workshops, sustainable living and direct action.

Get in touch with your nearest Climate Camp neighbourhood

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