Planting a tree, carbon free commuting, composting, recycling. \u00a0All things that are good\u00a0practices and things that\u00a0more people should be doing but a single person doing these things will not stop Global Climate Change. \u00a0Many say, on the other side, that the only way that we can hold Global Climate Change where it is or from getting to much worse is to have a complete overhaul of governmental action and policy. \u00a0Again, this is absolutely something that needs to happen and needs to happen fast. \u00a0The debate that I always find myself in when I think of the dispute between which is more important to happen is that, \u00a0without governmental change, will there be behavioral change? \u00a0Or vise versa,\u00a0without\u00a0behavioral change, will there be\u00a0governmental\u00a0change? \u00a0I believe that the answer is no in both cases. \u00a0So how do we get anything done?<\/p>\n
Local. \u00a0It starts on the community level. \u00a0By working with the community you live in, i.e. town,\u00a0neighborhood\u00a0or another community you function in, to do thing such as carbon free commuting, buying local organic produce, composting, recycling, investing in small solar, etc., you begin a movement and become an example for those around you. \u00a0From your small community you can\u00a0expand\u00a0the movement into another community and another and another. \u00a0Once you have grown your movement to enough small communities it becomes easier to influence you local government. \u00a0Local governments are much easier to\u00a0persuade\u00a0than state or federal governments. \u00a0As more and more local governments start to listen to the demands of the people for a more sustainable and low carbon energy sources, \u00a0it then becomes an easy move to the county level, then the district, state, and finally federal. \u00a0We will not see\u00a0governmental\u00a0change without a change in the people. \u00a0But how do we change the people, by starting with something small and expanding.<\/p>\n
In my life the best example of this I have seen was this past summer in Chatham County, N.C. \u00a0 This is the home of Piedmont Biofuels, \u00a0which started as a small cooperative biodiesel production company. \u00a0Using biodiesel and the devotion of the people that were and continue to be a part of the coop, the Chatham County has become a place where the environmental movement has become part of the governance and continues to grow. \u00a0It all starts somewhere and that somewhere is small. \u00a0Small is possible and we can do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Planting a tree, carbon free commuting, composting, recycling. \u00a0All things that are good\u00a0practices and things that\u00a0more people should be doing but a single person doing these things will not stop Global Climate Change. \u00a0Many say, on the other side, that the only way that we can hold Global Climate Change where it is or from getting to much worse is to have a complete overhaul of governmental action and policy. \u00a0Again, this is absolutely something that needs to happen and needs to happen fast. \u00a0The debate that I always find myself in when I think of the dispute between which is more important to happen is that, \u00a0without governmental change, will there be behavioral change? \u00a0Or vise versa,\u00a0without\u00a0behavioral change, will there be\u00a0governmental\u00a0change? \u00a0I believe that the answer is no in both cases. \u00a0So how do we get anything done?
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