What you can do

To control emissions and protect the climate, every one of us needs to consider our own choices—the cars we buy, the way we use energy in our homes, whether we walk or drive or use public transit, even how we use household appliances. Here are some tips to help you take action:

• Top 10 things YOU can do to reduce global warming
• Calculate how much carbon dioxide your household currently emits
• More ideas from the Green House Network

For more information

Washington State

• Washington Dept. of Ecology - Global Warming
• Washington Dept. of General Administration - Sustainability
• Washington Dept. of Transportation - Clean Fuel Initiative
• University of Washington Climate Impacts Group
• University of Washington Program on Climate Change
• Climate Solutions
• Puget Sound Clean Air Agency - Global Climate Change
• Northwest Air Pollution Authority - Practical Solutions

California and Oregon

• California Energy Commission - Climate Change and California
• Oregon Dept. of Energy - Governor’s Initiative on Global Warming

Additional information about climate change

• The Climate Trust
• Energy Foundation
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11/13/03:
  Our Warming World: Effects of climate change bode ill for Northwest
• Ski industry information
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• U.S. Climate Change Science Program
• U.S. Energy Information Administration
• USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service snow pack update (Text 10k)

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