Start a Low Carbon Diet Team. We'll provide the training and materials to help you get started.  This is one way to not only lose unwanted pounds of CO2, but also empower others to do the same!   Visit our Low Carbon Diet page to learn more, then contact us to get started!

Join Eco-Justice Collaborative's Northeast Cool-Challenge Team.  Visit the Northeast Cool-Challenge website, evaluate your carbon footprint, then ask others to do the same.  It's easy and effective: 

1. Go to www.cool-challenge.org.  Click Take the Challenge.
2. Calculate your footprint (you will need your annual gas and electric bills - if necessary, you can use the annual averages provided).
3. Select specific actions you are willing and able to take to reduce your carbon footprint.  You can update these selections at any time in the future.
4. Complete the username and password information, and choose Select a Team.  Select the team category: Non-Profits, then select Eco-Justice Collaborative.
   

That's it!  Print your results and the actions you've selected, and begin to make changes that will help you live more sustainably and save you money.

Attend or Host a Global Warming Café.  This is a great way to introduce the need for change and, through the café's interactive format, begin to organize Low Carbon Diet and Northeast Cool-Challenge teams in your neighborhood, business or community of faith.  Contact us for more information.

Help Make Climate Change a National Priority.  For every dollar allocated to stabilize our climate, the U.S. government will spend $88 to achieve security by military force. Our priorities need to change!   We plan to set forth a comprehensive campaign for congress and the president-elect that will ask them to:

• Ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
• Pass climate legislation that: 
• Places a moratorium on the construction of new, coal-fired power plants.
• Redirects subsidies for fossil fuels to investments in renewable energy.
• Invests in energy efficiency to lower energy demand.
• Reduces our oil consumption and eliminates our oil imports.
  
• Creates a green jobs corps to train underpriviledged youth in green trades.
• Provides assistance to those most affected by climate change at home and abroad, to help mitigate impacts.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  - Margaret Mead

• Conserve energy, save money and immediately reduce carbon emissions.
• Build community and support for one another as we work for a common goal.
• Organize residents, businesses, schools and houses of worship to push policy to meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the City, State and Federal levels.