Climate Action for Busy People

A hopeful and realistic guide for everyday people wanting to help grow their local community’s impact on climatechange.

As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities, the time tocreate climate resilient communities is now. While large-scale innovations in policy and technology are necessary topreserve the planet, the wisest and most lasting adaptation solutions originate at the local level. However, with somethingas large as the climate crisis, it can be hard to know where to begin. Climate Action for Busy People is a hopeful and realistic roadmap for individuals and groups who want to boost climatepreparedness and move the needle towards environmental justice. Drawing from her professional and personal success inclimate adaptation and community organising, Cate Mingoya-LaFortune begins with a brief history of why ourcommunities look the way they do (spoiler, it’s not an accident!) and how that affects how vulnerable we are to climaterisks. Each chapter will help readers scale up their actions, from identifying climate solutions that an individual or smallgroup can pull off in a handful of weekends, like tree plantings or depaving parties, to advocating for change at themunicipal level through coalition-building and data collection. It’s not too late for people of all ages and skill levels tocreate climate safe neighborhoods. Climate Action for Busy People is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to make lasting and equitable improvementsthat will make their communities climate resilient.