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.
    • Switch to a Credit Union.  (Information here).  Why: to give them the message not to finance new fossil fuel projects!
    • Here is a report on Fossil Fuel financing by banks
  • 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
• Support education of girls, family planning worldwide
• Advocate for reduced income inequality – higher minimum wage; low cost daycare; guaranteed annual income; housing support