Use a bicycle instead of a car for short trips.

Encourage your local government to install bike lanes, sharrows, and other bike-friendly infrastructure.

Bicycle infrastructure promotes physical and mental health by encouraging exercise, reducing sedentary behavior, and improving cardiovascular fitness.

Bicycle infrastructure contributes to cleaner air quality, decreased traffic congestion, and quieter urban environments by facilitating bicycling, which reduces air and noise pollution from internal combustion engine vehicles.

If possible, walk to your destination instead of driving. 

Let community leaders know how much you appreciate existing walking infrastructure, and encourage them to install more.

Reduced automobile traffic could result in improved air quality, reducing the incidence of respiratory illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and pneumonia.

Walking reduces stress and improves mental health.

Walking reduces risks for obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

If your company or parts of its supply chain use conventional refrigerants, encourage them to consider climate-friendly alternatives.

Avoid unnecessarily replacing appliances that use refrigerants. Recycle them properly when you do replace them.

If you’re buying a refrigerator for home or business, choose a high-efficiency option.

Recycle broken or obsolete units in a way that allows for refrigerant recovery.

Refrigerant management contributes to reduced risk of poor water quality resulting from reducing refrigerant pollutants in water sources.

Reducing emissions from refrigerant sources has the co-benefits of reducing risks of extreme climate events, reducing air pollution, and improving mental health.

Make sure your office, school system, place of worship, etc., recycle paper. 

Do recycling one better! Enroll in electronic options for bank statements, charitable solicitations, etc., to reduce paper-based mail.

By reducing demand for tree harvesting, paper recycling makes it possible to maintain more habitat and recreation land.

Recognize that everything you consume produces greenhouse gases. Reduce, reuse, and recycle whenever possible.

Encourage your workplace or campus and other venues you frequent to provide separate containers for recyclables.

Promote legislation of standardized recyclable packaging for all products.

Recycling reduces natural resource depletion, habitat destruction, and pollution from mining. 

If your company has operations in low- and middle-income countries, support the development of compost facilities there.

At home, use every bit of produce you can—then compost the bits you can't.

Composting reduces waste sent to landfills which is often incinerated and generates carbon emissions.

Reducing landfill waste can reduce air pollution and associated respiratory illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and pneumonia.

When used for gardening or farming, compost reduce the need of fertilizers and pesticides in soils and helps improve soil health and thereby increase agricultural yields.

Compost retains water, prevents erosion, reduces runoff, establishes vegetation, and improves downstream water quality by retaining pollutants like heavy metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, oil, grease, fuels, herbicides, and pesticides.

Use sustainably made bioplastics in place of conventional plastic items.

Encourage your employee or campus cafeteria and local restaurants to replace conventional plastics with the products you found to be the best.

Boost visibility of the climate problems and solutions associated with cement by sharing this link with developers and contractors in your community.

Consider using alternatives to cement in your own construction projects.

Reducing emissions from the production and transport of cement has the co-benefits of reducing risks of extreme climate events, reducing air pollution, and improving mental health.

Improved air and water quality contribute to reduced respiratory and gastrointestinal illness.

Share this drawdown solution with a development organization.

Learn more about how methane contributes to climate change and explore ways that you and your community can help alleviate the burden.

Improving rice production increases rice yield and income for farmers.

More rice means more food security.