Insulation presents a significant opportunity for your carbon footprint reduction, but that’s not the real reason to do it. It also improves comfort and lowers your energy costs. With 90% of US homes under-insulated, enhancing insulation can reduce energy use and carbon emissions dramatically. It also offers additional benefits like increased home value.
Growing your own food gives you piece of mind and ties you into the rhythms of the seasons and the earth itself. It will allow you to bear witness to the accelerating climate changes going on all around us. This post is meant to give you a little inspiration to grow your own. So please enjoy a tour through my pandemic – climate change victory garden!
Plastic pollution is everywhere. I saved my plastic trash for a week to see what I could do to reduce my plastic footprint. Come see what I learned.
<June 2022- Please note, some of the tools and methods in this post may be out of date as the original was written 4 years ago. An update to this post is planned in the next month or two, so please check back or subscribe by email to be notified of any updates or new blog posts. Thanks!> There are many climate change maps and tools that you can use to figure out your personal risk to climate change. The Climate Advisor searched the web for the best interactive climate change visualization tools. Sites that give information in a map… Read More »The Best Climate Change Mapping Tools For You
This article is taken from a previous, longer article about the health impacts of flooding. Here we focus mostly on flood preparation and recovery. A recent study titled Increasing Vulnerability to Health Effects before, during and after Floods, observed the following in people who had experienced a major flood… Males had a higher risk of dying due to risk taking behaviors Females had a higher risk for anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress Young children, the elderly, and those with a chronic disease (e.g. heart disease, lung disease, etc) had a higher chance of getting sick or sicker Poor people have bad outcomes… Read More »How to prepare for and survive a flood