The 2° Institute mission is to develop and support strategies that empower people to make the behavioural and lifestyle changes needed to keep global warming below 2 degrees celsius from pre-industrial levels and restore a stable climate.
Instead of laying blame externally and calling on government and industry to change their ways (which some other NGO’s excel at), our focus is to direct people to look inwards at their own contribution to global warming. The average North American’s carbon footprint is roughly 4 times the global average so there is a clear opportunity to see drastic reductions on global emissions just by focusing on this continent. The average individual’s carbon footprint consists of greenhouse gas emissions from the following categories: Travel, Home Energy, Food, and Goods and Services. Our aim is to offer a clear and achievable roadmap for individuals to drastically reduce their carbon footprint that is commensurate with the scale of the problem.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
I came by this organization as the ones behind what is a very useful open resource Global CO2 levels - an interactive data driven site for exploring climate change data over time. I flipped in the temperature and hovering over the late 1880s wondering what changes were possibly attributed to the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa?
This graph features atmospheric CO2 levels that combine measurements from as far back as 800,000 years up to the present day with an atmospheric temperature overlay option. The graph is customizable and can be resized, printed, or pasted into your website. This is a free service*, but we do ask for a donation if you find this useful. This is a project of the 2 Degrees Institute, a non-profit organization.
emphasis added, I did not see a clear license but this seems to be public domain-ish.
The sire provides a copy and paste embed code to insert the chart into another web site and provides clear credit to the data sources.. The site and the charts are free to use.
But wait, there’s more climate scoence fans! There are parallel sites for graphs of
Thanks for sharing this Alan. As far as resources focused on individual lifestyle climate action, I think this one is pretty good.
If I may, however: I’ll raise and emphasize that by far the most important climate action an individual can take is, to quote Bill McKibben, to be less of an individual - to join with others to force policy changes so that our menu of default individual choices shifts in the right direction.
