- Stay informed. Sign up for newsletters and updates from environmental organizations. Here are some suggestions:
- Sign petitions in support of climate change actions and initiatives. Here are some suggestions:
- Participate in virtual climate change workshops, seminars, and rallies. Here are some suggestions for finding these events:
- Talk to your family and friends about climate change, and what they can do about it. With many of us at home with free time, consider hosting a virtual conversation with family about the climate emergency and the opportunities to learn from the COVID-19 experience. Here are some suggestions:
- Advocate for having your pension plan including the Canada Pension Plan, divest from fossil fuels. Go to Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health.
- Volunteer and join a local climate change organization. Here are some suggestions:
- Call, email, text or use social media to send a message to your city councilor, your MP, and/or your MPP about your concerns about climate change.
- Call in to your radio station’s phone-in shows to speak up about climate change.
- Write Letters To the Editor of your local newspaper to express your concerns about climate change. Here are some suggestions:
- Reduce your personal carbon footprint using Global Footprint Network or Project Neutral.
- Make a personal carbon footprint commitment by taking a pledge with Climate Pledge Collective.
- Investigate whether your personal investments are free from fossil fuels. Consider investing in ethical funds when the markets stabilize.
- Engage with your bank to advocate for them to divest from fossil fuels. Here are some suggestions for doing this:
- Make a donation to a local climate change organization. Here are some suggestions:
- Remember that we are doing this for our children and our grandchildren, and for all future generations.