Kingston Residents - Personal Actions

Top 10 things you can do about the climate emergency: The David Suzuki List
What Can I Do To Help Climate Change? PracticalAction.org
Take Action: Climate Atlas of Canada
Another list!:
- Become informed on the climate emergency (Home Page features and Learn Page); talk to your friends and family
- Advocate to all levels of government (and businesses) for BOLD climate action – mandate switch to non fossil fuel cars and trucks, stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, building standards, electrification of public transit, reduction of disposable plastics,…
- Contact your Councillor, MPP, MP and ask for climate action
- Sign appropriate petitions
- Join Climate rallies and protests
- Reduce your own footprint:
- Transportation:
- Use Active transportation (Walk, Cycle, electric scooter, etc.)
- Take public transit
- Buy / lease an electric vehicle
- Eat less meat (esp. beef/lamb), grow some of your food, reduce food waste
- Purchase green energy – e.g. Bullfrog Electricity and Renewable Natural Gas
- Home efficiency
- Make deep retrofits to reduce energy demands (insulation, fix air leaks, drain water heat recovery etc.) – See Better Homes Kingston Page
- Upgrade your heating system when it needs replacing with a cold climate air source heat pumps or better still, if your lot and budget permit, a Geoexchange (ground source) Heat Pump. See Better Homes Kingston Page
- As they wear out replace appliances with Energy efficient models – heat pump water heaters, heat pump clothes dryers
- Install Rooftop solar. See Better Homes Kingston Page
- Switch to LED lights, diligently turn off lights not in use, use power bars or unplug chargers, etc. to reduce phantom loads, make your next computer a laptop (more energy efficient).
- Green Investing, advocacy for pension funds, pressuring banks to divest from fossil fuels.
- Fly less and when you do buy Gold Standard Certified Offsets
- Consider buying offsets for driving, home heating, etc.
- Buy less stuff (eg. clothes); buy second hand; fix vs replace
- Transportation:
- Support education of girls, family planning worldwide
- Advocate for reduced income inequality – higher minimum wage; low cost daycare; guaranteed annual income; housing support