Take
Action in Your Own Life
Some ideas on what we can do in our own lives include to:
- Choose public transit, carpool, walk or bicycle
- If you buy a car, make it fuel-efficient, hybrid or electric
- Fly less
- Eat local, organic foods
- Support clean, renewable energy
- Reduce energy waste in your home
- Replace your aging appliances and electronics
- Reduce, reuse and recycle
- Compost organic waste
- Inspire your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours
Wheels for Change recommends the
following downloadable handouts:
-The David Suzuki Foundation’s’10 Ways to Stop Global Warming’ handout:
-The Sierra Club of Canada - BC
Chapter’s’10
Things You Can Do to Fight Global Warming’ handout:
-The Sierra Club of Canada – BC
Chapter’s ‘Cool Homes’
handout:
The Wheels for Change campaign
is also happy to announce that amongst our core group riding from Nelson
to Victoria this summer are the two authors of the booklet ‘Recipe
for a Cool Planet: How to be Happy and Healthy on a Low-carbon Diet’:
Helen Lupowitz and Patricia Geernaert.
This easy-to-read, beautifully illustrated booklet contains 60 money-saving
ideas to reduce your GHG emissions.
We will be selling Recipe for a Cool Planet for $5.00 on the tour at our Wheels for Change booth. You can also order a copy by contacting Helen Lupowitz at:
Email: info@recipeforacoolplanet.com
Telephone: 544-2064
Address: PO Box 331, Brentwood
Bay, V8M 1R3