What could YOU do for Climate Week? ~ March 21 – 27

Four out of five people are motivated to take action on climate change and believe that even one person can make a difference, according to Kevin Steele, founder of Climate Week.

However, the research also found people are unwilling to take action on climate change because they think nobody else is doing anything.

In other words, people believe they can make a difference, but only if they are taking their own action alongside many others.

This is a classic tipping-point situation: climate change is widely recognised as the greatest threat faced by humanity, a huge number of people truly want to do their bit to combat it, but need to feel that they are not alone.

In practice, what they see around them is business as usual – even though in reality, huge numbers of people and organisations in every part of society are doing things in new, low-carbon ways. It is just that these positive steps – both the dramatic innovations and the incremental changes – are too often below the radar for most of us.

As the former US Vice President and Nobel prize-winner Al Gore puts it: “It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective will.”

So our best chance of saving the planet from catastrophic environmental damage is to show people what is already being done.

Thousands of communities across the globe will be running events and activities during this year’s Climate Week, which falls on 21-27 March 2011. Some will be showcasing what they have done, some will profile other people’s work that they admire, while some will simply start a discussion about what might be possible. They will all be joining a social movement that aims, for one week in the year, to paint a picture of what a low-carbon society could look like.

What could YOUR church or community do?

See www.climateweek.com/awards.