If you manage large amounts of animal, human, or solid waste, explore whether a digester would be good for your operation and the environment.
Find out where your trash and wastewater go, and encourage operators of the associated facilities to consider installing a methane digesters.
Methane digesters keep manure from polluting waterways.
Estimate the amount of trash (by weight or volume) your household makes in a week. Think of three things you can do to reduce it—and do them.
Find out where your trash goes when it leaves your home or workplace. If it ends up in a landfill, share this page with facility managers.
Pay attention to the amount of trash you produce. Reduce it as much as you can.
If a waste-to-energy facility serves your community, make sure it meets pollution standards.
Using waste as an energy source reduces the space needed for landfills.
Learn what portion (f any) of your home's electricity is generated by a nuclear power plant
Learn about emerging small modular reactor technology and share what you learn with a friend, neighbor, or colleague.
If you own farmland, look into the pros and cons of producing perennial biomass for fuel.
Share this page with your local utility or a nonprofit organization promoting biomass energy.
Access to the clean and affordable energy biomass power provides supports education, health care, agriculture, and small businesses.
Deploying this climate solution stimulates local economies and creates employment opportunities. The installation, operation, and maintenance of renewable energy systems require skilled labor, creating jobs and contributing to economic growth.
Shifting to clean and renewable energy sources reduces indoor and outdoor air pollution, which is a significant health concern in many developing countries. By replacing traditional fuels like wood and coal with cleaner alternatives improves air quality, reducing respiratory illnesses and related health issues.
In developing countries, this solution expands access to modern and reliable energy services, enabling communities to meet basic energy needs such as lighting, cooking, heating, and powering essential services like health-care facilities and schools.
Consider allocating a portion of your investments to advancing renewable energy.
If you are an educator, offer your students an opportunity to explore the pros and cons of ocean power production.
If you live in a remote, mountainous area, look into small hydro as a potential alternative to dirty fuels for generating electricity.
If you live in a city, encourage your local governing body to looking into generating electricity from water flowing through municipal water infrastructure.
Access to the clean and affordable energy small hydropower provides supports education, health care, agriculture, and small businesses.
Deploying this climate solution stimulates local economies and creates employment opportunities. The installation, operation, and maintenance of renewable energy systems require skilled labor, creating jobs and contributing to economic growth.
Shifting to clean and renewable energy sources reduces indoor and outdoor air pollution, which is a significant health concern in many developing countries. By replacing traditional fuels like wood and coal with cleaner alternatives improves air quality, reducing respiratory illnesses and related health issues.
In developing countries, this solution expands access to modern and reliable energy services, enabling communities to meet basic energy needs such as lighting, cooking, heating, and powering essential services like health-care facilities and schools.
Learn about the benefits of geothermal energy, and share what you learn with someone else.
If you are building or remodeling your home or business, consider whether a geothermal HVAC system might suit your circumstances.
Access to the clean and affordable energy geothermal provides supports education, health care, agriculture, and small businesses.
Deploying this climate solution stimulates local economies and creates employment opportunities. The installation, operation, and maintenance of renewable energy systems require skilled labor, creating jobs and contributing to economic growth.
Shifting to clean and renewable energy sources reduces indoor and outdoor air pollution, which is a significant health concern in many developing countries. By replacing traditional fuels like wood and coal with cleaner alternatives improves air quality, reducing respiratory illnesses and related health issues.
In developing countries, this solution expands access to modern and reliable energy services, enabling communities to meet basic energy needs such as lighting, cooking, heating, and powering essential services like health-care facilities and schools.
If you are (or know of) a student interested in engineering, consider focusing your career on wind or other renewable energy technologies.
If you are financially supporting the fossil fuel industry, consider shifting that support to renewables.
Offshore wind turbines are less expensive and less polluting than new coal power plants.
Wind turbine design, construction, operation, and maintenance create new job opportunities.
Consider investing in funds that advance the transition to clean energy.
Show your support local policies and ordinances that allow installation of wind turbines in appropriate locations.
Onshore wind turbines are less expensive and less polluting than coal power plants.
Green energy technologies provide new job opportunities in design, construction, installation, and more.
