Introduction
Just a note of introduction. My name is Jessi. I live with my partner and animals in Minneapolis, having moved here 8 years ago from Texas. Locally we like so many others have had a chance to see the effects of global climate change and there is considerable concern about it.
City wide there are several initiatives for greening the city and lowering our carbon footprint. At my church we have also taken the carbon pledge. That includes education of the church membership, local initiatives to stimulate environmental consciousness, and practicing what we preach. Around the house we have a small car for my partner who has some distance still to go to work. I use public transit whereever I go, and supplement that with bike travel. We use compact florescent bulbs, use certified energy saver appliances, set our A/C to energy save.
As much as possible we get our food locally from area farms, and during the summer we freeze and dry a lot of food to help get through the winter.
That is our little bit, and hopefully here others will share and offer their ideas as well. As I write, our neighbors to the south and east are homeless from the severe weather, the worse flooding on record. Climate change is upon us and the warnings are out there. Time now to fix what we can I think.
City wide there are several initiatives for greening the city and lowering our carbon footprint. At my church we have also taken the carbon pledge. That includes education of the church membership, local initiatives to stimulate environmental consciousness, and practicing what we preach. Around the house we have a small car for my partner who has some distance still to go to work. I use public transit whereever I go, and supplement that with bike travel. We use compact florescent bulbs, use certified energy saver appliances, set our A/C to energy save.
As much as possible we get our food locally from area farms, and during the summer we freeze and dry a lot of food to help get through the winter.
That is our little bit, and hopefully here others will share and offer their ideas as well. As I write, our neighbors to the south and east are homeless from the severe weather, the worse flooding on record. Climate change is upon us and the warnings are out there. Time now to fix what we can I think.
