Start a Climate Group

Since our federal government is not yet doing enough to protect us from climate and ecological breakdown, citizens can work at the town, city, and state level. Focus on these areas to ensure that your area is moving towards sustainability:

1. A stretch code to ensure energy efficient homes and buildings

2. Work with your town, city, or state to move away from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy

3. Protect ecosystems and create green spaces (rewilding)

4. Work with other towns, cities, and states that have already committed to 100% clean energy

5. Ask Climate Mobilization for support

6. The Green Neighbor Challenge can help you find and your neighbors find clean energy options near you

7. A step-by-step guide from the EPA to help local governments plan, implement, and evaluate climate, energy, and sustainability projects and programs. 

8. Check out Winchester, MA basic climate plan

9. Check out Denton, Texas Adopts 100% Renewable Energy Goal by 2022

   Here is a template for starting a climate group and action toolkits

Ideas for Activism

Aim for your actions to inconvenience and “punch up” at the bad players like fossil fuel execs, inactive politicians, bankers, CEOs, the very wealthy, top 1% and not down onto people of color, working class, and other marginalized persons and communities.

• Utilize nonviolent disruptive action, including street theater, road blocking, and other performative and disruptive actions like the Red Rebel Brigade

• Post to social media and plan twitter/social media storms to demand that government and corporations take serious action on the climate emergency

• Campaign for politicians committed to taking climate action

• Hand out informative flyers

• Create signs and banners about the climate emergency

• Create petitions and draft bills at the town, state, and national level to help move the grid to renewable energy

• Join seminars led by other climate groups

• Join seminars led by indigenous people and organizations 

• Raise awareness about dangerous banks and investors like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Blackrock, and some Vanguard portfolios. Encourage people to move money away from companies that deforest, pollute, or fund fossil fuel projects. Stop the Money Pipeline can support you with this.

• Pressure colleges and universities to divest from fossil fuels. 

• Pressure energy companies like Eversource, National Grid, and Enbridge to rapidly transition to renewables like solar, heat pumps, and geothermal. 

• Work with your local Municipal Light Plant. Municipal light plants are locally owned utilities and are all about local control. Residents can demand a transition to renewable sources of energy. 

• Walking meditations / Sitting meditations

• Hunger strikes

• Pressure meteorologists to cover the link between weather events and human caused climate change

• 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action – Albert Einstein Institution

• Check out Resources for more ideas