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" Every year, more people die from air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels than have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Every week, there’s another climate-fueled flood, storm, or wildfire putting more people in harms’ way. Given these urgent, alarming realities, we often wonder: why aren’t people acting at the speed and scale required to address this crisis? Understanding how climate change is affecting our families, our communities, and the world we cherish is what fuels our desire to act. And how do we help others make that connection? Through a step that’s so obvious, we often look right past it: by talking about it! That’s why I challenge you, this week, to start a conversation that helps someone make that head-to-heart connection. Show them that, to care about climate change, they don’t have to be a scientist or an activist; they only need to be a human being who calls this planet home. And then, help them connect their heart to their h...
My CAP 2020-2022 and CAS 2023 Journey
CLIMATE ACTION PROJECT 2020 CAP 2020 We started our CAP (Climate Action Project) journey via FaceTime as a way to have engaging communication between grandparents living in Oklahoma and grandchildren starting preschool in Massachusetts during Covid-19 times. In our first-six weeks of participation, we worked virtually on the difference between weather and climate. My grandchildren's preschool teacher had a maple tree farm and we connected global warming and climate change to what was happening to the production of my grandchildren's favorite topping for pancakes, maple syrup. CAP also empowered us to communicate with a preschool teacher from California who shared her CAP plans for her classes and validated my (the grandmother) inexperienced early childhood educator efforts. We followed Ivette’s suggestions during CAP 2020 and 2021. Our first CAP climate action was simply watching a memorial Japanese maple tree planting at the children's backyard. We also st...
