Create a Multi-Year Plan to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
“Every bit of warming matters. Every year matters and every choice matters.”
U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018
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Many residents are deeply concerned about our changing climate and want to take action to address the climate emergency. However, the transition away from fossil fuels can feel daunting. Some actions are expensive. Many actions involve thought and planning over months and years. Plus, some goals feel downright unattainable. Please take heart! No matter our circumstances, there is something that we can do every year to support the health of our families, our human communities, our ecosystems, and our planet.
This talk is an effort to provide tools for long-term planning and encouragement as we try to create a new and sustaining way of life. What do we hope to achieve in this talk?
- Provide a look at regional and national checklists and planning templates.
- Think about timing as we consider our household energy equipment.
- Address actions we can take now; plus share resources–including info about incentives, rebates, and no-interest loans—to help plan for higher cost, higher impact changes in the future.
- Ask how we keep ourselves motivated and supported through this process.
Most of all, we hope to get your input about what YOU feel you need in order to move forward! Making lifestyle changes and embarking on new technologies can feel uncomfortable and complicated. But these changes can also be as rewarding as they are necessary. Everything we do now to reduce our carbon footprint is a gift to the future.
We also want to acknowledge that our actions alone, while significant, are only part of the climate picture. Government policy and corporate priorities are hugely important. If clean energy adoption is not an option for you (for example, if you are a student or a renter), then there is room to have an important impact through political advocacy, conservation, and other community contributions.
This presentation will be short—45 minutes! However, we hope that this conversation can be the beginning of an ongoing reflection about planning for a sustainable future. And, with your input, EnergizeActon.org hopes to develop a template that can help all residents set yearly goals on the journey toward net-zero households and a net-zero Acton!
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Materials will be sent ahead of time. (Though no homeowork required.)
EnergizeActon.org is a community website and education effort co-sponsored by the Acton Climate Coalition and Town of Acton Sustainability Office.