Learn More About The Climate Crisis

What You Can Do

• Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered By Julia Moskin and others, New York Times, April 30, 2019.
  How to shop, cook and eat in a warming world.
• Consider a Heat Pump By Tik Root, New York Times, October 16, 2019.
  A heat pump is an all-in-one heating and cooling unit. They extract warmth from the air, then, they move it inside (to heat the home) or outside (for cooling). That requires a lot less energy than traditional heating systems.
• Your Clothes By Eduardo Garcia, New York Times, October 3, 2018.
  The apparel and footwear industries account for around 8 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
• Your Refrigerator By Henry Fountain, New York Times, September 12 2018.
  To help combat climate change start in the kitchen, with the elephant in the room: the refrigerator.
• Smarter Laundry By Kyla Mandel, New York Times, October 2 2019.
  On average, American households do about 300 loads of laundry every year. Heating the water and running the machines can consume enormous amounts of energy, and that means plenty of greenhouse gas emissions.
• Reduce Your Food Waste. Approximately 40 percent of food is thrown away in America, and... households are by far the main culprits.
  • Reduce your Food Waste By Eduardo Garcia, New York Times, December 12, 2018.
  • Farms aren't tossing perfectly good produce – You are By Sarah Taber, The Washington Post, March 8, 2019.
• Plant Trees by Stephen Q. Shafer, Saugerties NY, Sept 16 2018
  Planting trees and preserving woodland is extremely worthwhile, and warrants strong emphasis in a climate smart community.

Saugerties

• Efficient Ice Arena

New York State

• Climate projections for the Hudson Valley region through 2100.
• Climate Smart Communities video series.
  

World

• Greenhouse Gases. Wikipedia.
• Plastic: A Source of Greenhouse Gases by Susan J. Murphy, Saugerties NY, August 18 2018.
• Why We Must Control Methane Emissions Now! by Stephen Shafer, Saugerties NY, June 24 2019.
• International Public Opinion on Climate Change. by the Yale Program on Climate Change, June 2021.
• The World Is Bending the Climate Emissions Curve. Just Not Enough. Nations have started making progress on climate change. But we're still on track for dangerous warming unless those efforts accelerate drastically, October 2021.