Climate Action Day 2 – Center Action in Your Strengths and Passions

Starting and Sustaining Your Climate Action Journey

The Frog will explore The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions by Heidi Roop in the first 100 days of 2024

Every action matters. The climate crisis is a call of “all-hands-on-deck” and each of us can make a difference if we decide to. Having self-awareness of our personal gifts and talents, and what lies at the heart of our motivations, is essential to sustain individual actions needed to have an impact. The problem is complex and diverse solutions are required. It is likely you can, if you seek it, discover and take actions that motivate and sustain you.

“All this beautiful diversity of perspective, experience, and passion is needed to address this grand societal and environmental challenge”

Heidi Roop

There are many individuals actions that we will explore in the first 100 days of 2024, and many of them, if they are interesting to you, may motivate you to move beyond acting as an individual and into a broader community. For you, it may be taking on the challenge of effective climate communication and battling disinformation in your local government councils and organizations, or your school, church or other group. In doing so, you may help others move forward in their journey to address climate change on their terms – with a profound, multiplicative effect.

Personal leadership starts with “identifying your strengths, passions, and motivations”, then seeking the knowledge and skills to act, committing to it, and (perhaps) broadening your scope to a larger community in which your actions will have the greatest effect. In this way, you may find the personal satisfaction that will sustain you in your journey.

Next Up: Climate Action in 2024 – Day 3: Understand the Disconnect Between Actions and Impact

Howard Creel

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   We cannot express enough gratitude for Howard and Heidi’s exploration and guidebook to practical action, pushing back against the much-ignored…

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   Yours is a compelling back-story. Thanks for sharing

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   This entry by Howard Creel is particularly excellent, and addresses much more than just our climate crisis. It’s a concise…

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   Thanks, Mark. Of all topics in the series, I have gone the deepest on the sources and sinks of carbon…

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   Brilliant post and analysis. A primer on the cynical tactic of greenwashing, everyone needs to know the difference between talking…