Green
Babies
Green, green, green. Everything is turning green. The realities and the
seriousness of global warming are finally setting in, and the
environmental movement is reaching beyond Earth Day. It is exciting how
companies and governments are making big changes, and how families are
making little changes that add up to big differences in how much warmer
our climate will eventually become. But as a new mom, it may be hard to
find the time to change your light bulbs, or to find the money to buy a
new hybrid. Don’t worry! There are plenty of important things you can
do that will not only reduce the amount of carbon you release into the
atmosphere, but will help you raise a responsible new citizen of our
planet, and have some fun along the way.
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What
you can do!
Request a presentation:
From the Climate
Project
From me
(I am a member of the Climate Project)
Flex your mom power:
One fifth
of the changes that need to happen are in YOUR home under YOUR control!
Go shopping for:
Reusable
water bottles
Shower
timers
Unusual
fluorescent lightbulbs
New
appliances
Farmers
market fruits and vegetables
Read a book:
The
Lorax by Dr. Seuss
A
Clean Sky: The Global Warming Story by Robyn C. Friend and Judith
Love Cohen
Why
Are the Ice Caps Melting? by Anne F. Rockwell
Recycle!:
A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons
An
Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
An
Inconvenient Truth (for teenagers) by Al Gore
The
Live Earth Global Warming Survival Book by David de Rothchild
Down-to-Earth
Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
The
Green Book by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
Read a scienctific article:
Global Warming
by John Houghton, 2005, Rep. Prog. Phys. 68 1343-1403 (online or in
your local university library)
(references many
other important scientific articles about global warming)
Watch a movie:
An
Inconvenient Truth
Global
Warming: The Signs and the Science (PBS)
Calculate your carbon
footprint:
EPA
version
Climate
Crisis version
Join
the fight:
www.wecansolveit.org