As consumers of energy in our daily lives, all of us have the basic power to take personal action to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming and its destructive effects from climate change and degradation of our diverse environments.
This site highlights the most critical personal actions you can take in using energy that will bring about the largest reductions in these emissions.
How effective can this be? Our research shows that such personal actions can reduce your yearly energy consumption by at least 15 to 20 percent and in many cases much more. If everyone coordinated together in these actions it would produce the largest step yet toward satisfying the Kyoto Treaty, which asks all nations to roll back their emissions to the level of 1990 as a first defense against global warming. All of us can make this happen using the simple principle of small actions done by many, many hands.