On November 8, you can vote to stop climate change. Will you? On Friday, November 4, the Paris Agreement on climate change is set to formally go into effect. It aims to stop climate change in its tracks by significantly reducing the emissions that cause global warming while increasing the amount of energy we get from […]
300views What can you actually do to stop climate change? World leaders are meeting this week in Paris to address climate change on a global scale. At Big Green Purse, we focus on what we ALL can do at home and in our communities. One important step we can take is to embrace the science. […]
345viewsIt’s easy to dismiss climate change as a big, confusing, uncertain issue that affects other people living in other parts of the world. But as the blogposts in this month’s Green Moms Carnival show, the build-up in our atmosphere of heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) is hitting very close to home, seriously impacting […]
Still on the fence about whether climate change matters to you? Here are ten reasons why it should: 1. Poison Ivy. Poison ivy leaves have gotten bigger and their toxic oils more potent because the plants are thriving in hotter conditions. As climate change increases, it will be easier to get poison ivy and harder to […]
If we have any hope of protecting the environment and ourselves, we must get climate change under control. The nations of the world are meeting in Copenhagen in December to try to hammer out international agreements to reduce the greenhouse gases that have caused the world’s temperatures to soar, endangering the systems upon which all life depends. […]
In honor of Blog Action Day, I’m getting off my duff and doing a few things to protect the environment and my family that I’ve been meaning to do for a while now: * I signed up to attend a climate change rally in Washington, D.C. on October 24, Climate Action Day. Want to do […]
