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Take Action:
 Participate in the Online Forum: Tribes and Climate Change
Discuss and express your views about climate change as it relates to tribes. Share resources and ideas about how tribes
can face the challenges posed by climate change.
...the Online Forum is currently under construction.
Voice Your Opinion about Climate Change Issues:
- Tribal Government
Contact your tribal leadership and Natural Resources or Environmental department about climate change issues.
- National Congress of American Indians
Contact your NCAI area representative.
 www.ncai.org/Executive_Committee.15.0.html
- Federal and State Government
To find contact information for the President, your senators and representatives, your state governor and legislators, go to
the Congress.org website and type in your zip code in the "My Elected Officials" box.
www.congress.org/congressorg/issuesaction/orgs/
- Local Government
Has your community adopted the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement? If not, encourage your community to do so.
Participating cities commit to take the following actions:
- Strive to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets in their own communities
- Urge their state governments and the federal government to enact policies and programs to meet or beat the greenhouse
gas emission reduction target suggested for the United States in the Kyoto Protocol -- 7% reduction from 1990 levels by 2012
- Urge the US Congress to pass the bipartisan greenhouse gas reduction legislation, which would establish a national
emission trading system
http://usmayors.org/climateprotection/agreement.htm
- Utilities
Does your utility use renewable energy? Does it have a net metering policy that allows customers who produce their own
electricity, by wind or solar power, to sell unused energy to the utility? Encourage your utility to do these.
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Calculate your carbon footprint…and then find ways to reduce it.
Carbon Calculators - you can calculate your carbon footprint using one of these online calculators or the many others available
on the Internet.
Things you can do
Try to use less fossil fuel-you can do this by cutting back on energy use, replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy,
increasing energy efficiency, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", and many more ways. You can find numerous ideas on the
Internet. Here are a few websites to get you started:
Ways for Youth to get Involved
- Calculate Your Impact (US EPA)
Emissions calculator designed for youth.
www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/calc/index.html
- Campus Climate Challenge
Youth organizations (college and high school) throughout the U.S. and Canada are working together on climate change issues.
www.climatechallenge.org/
- Climate Change and Children's Health (US EPA)
Website geared towards teens. Includes emissions calculator and resources to help teens take action.
www.epa.gov/climateforaction/
- Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA)
AYEA trains youth leaders to impact environmental issues through community action projects and campaigns; skills training
in leadership, environmental education, civic engagement, and community organizing; and green jobs. Website has useful
information and ideas about how to get involved in climate change issues.
http://ayea.org/
- Project Budburst
You can join other citizen scientists in submitting data on the timing of leafing and flowering of native trees and
flower species in your area.
www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/
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