Like many people, I am extremely concerned about climate chaos. I started a WordPress blog to document my attempts to reduce our carbon footprint. In addition, here are some links to a few useful sites related to climate change and recycling.

We are probably past the tipping point and have only a few years (maybe three or four) to reduce our carbon dioxide output sufficiently (25% from current levels by the end of 2012 has been suggested by George Monbiot) to prevent the worst of the environmental impacts.

That requires committed and effective leadership ... where is it?

"If multibillion-dollar rescue packages can be put together at the click of a finger in the wake of a banking meltdown, why shouldn't politicians press the panic button in response to a threat that is infinitely graver than that?"

One method of reducing GHGs in the atmosphere is known as Cap and Share. A variation of this is Feasta. It appears to be very simple to implement. There is a link to their paper describing Cap and Share on Feasta's site.  Citizens Climate Lobby Canada lobbies politicians on a number of topics, the chief being carbon fee and dividend similar to that proposed by Levy and Rebate as proposed by James Hansen.

If we are to have any chance of stabilizing our emissions in time we must switch to zero carbon energy sources ASAP. I am on the committee of Zero Carbon Ontario which is proposing that the Ontario Legislature enact a private member's public bill to set an ambitious timeline for converting Ontario's stationary energy to zero carbon sources by 2013.

In addition, Climate Action NOW!, a group that was formed some years ago to agitate for ACTION has collected material on energy conservation and suggested actions.