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COOL SOLUTIONS

Stories of​ Climate action from the bottom up,

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This is my home

Women mobilize their communities to stop petrochemical pollution. 

Louisiana 
Texas

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Action Toolkit
Stories from the Great New Jersey Plastic Ban

Girl Scouts in Teaneck and citizens in NJ beach towns set off a wave of municipal bag bans, that led to the nation's strongest state ban of single use plastic. 

Action Toolkit
Transforming Agriculture Part 2
​Re-Localizing Food


Regenerative farmers need local markets.  That's where food hubs come in. And when COVID shut down corporate supply chains, food hubs delivered, for farmers and communities.  


Virginia

Action Toolkit

Transforming Agriculture Part 1
​Healthy Soil for a Healthy Planet


A growing set of farming and ranching methods can draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.  How do we get farmers and ranchers to use them? 
Vampires Shut Down Power Plants

Technology transforms home appliances into "vampires" and "werewolves" that shift energy use away from fossil fuel. 

Action Links
CA:   OhmConnect
​HI:    Shifted Energy


Cool Election: Part 3
​
Campaign Giving for Climate Action


Easy ways to make your contributions count

Election Action Toolkit

Cool Election: Part 2
Dear Non-voting Environmentalist

Join the army of volunteers getting out the vote
Election Action Toolkit

Small Forests, Big Carbon
Family forests join fight against climate change
Pennsylvania

Cool Election: Part 1
Stop Voter Suppression

Election Action Toolkit

Bringing Back the Tide

Communities race climate change to restore coastal marshes. 

Great Marsh of Massachusetts, San Francisco Bay

Action Toolkit
(and cute animal videos)
The Garbage Gourmets

Climate conscious chef teaches how to transform your discards into delicacies

Action Toolkit
Cool Pavings

City experiments with paving to blunt effects of urban heat.

Los Angeles, CA

Co
   
School Bus Plus

1500 electric school buses will do double duty, storing energy for the grid. 

Virgina

Depaving Portland

​Citizens take coolness into their own hands, removing asphalt and mapping urban heat. 

Portland, OR

Action Toolkit 
Cities Declare Climate Emergency

Activists get cities to declare emergency and plan for rapid transition to zero carbon

Hoboken, NJ and Gainesville, FL

Action Toolkit

Minnesota, the Solar Garden State

Minnesota's community solar policy made it the solar garden capitol of the US.  

​Action Toolkit


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Sprouting from the Rooftops

Cooperatives help neighbors to go solar together
Saint Augustine, FL and Washington DC
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​Action Toolkit



Free Lyfts

Rural buses go fare free and thrive. 
Northeast Kingdom, VT and Sonoma County, CA

Action toolkit
Waste Not, Warm Not

App helps communities turn food waste into meals, not methane
Norwalk, CT and Columbia, SC

Action toolkit

The Healing Power of Trees

Health researchers plant trees in Louisville to decrease deaths from heart disease.   

​Louisville, KY


Action Toolkit
So Good To Not Feel Alone 

Unexpected alliance stops oil by rail in its tracks

Vancouver, WA


​Action Toolkit


Small Town Whups Big Oil
​
A Tar Sands Victory

​South Portland, ME
   

Action toolkit     


Street Lights Unplugged 
Solar street lights bring safety and savings
​
​Highland Park, MI and Beaumont, CA


 Action toolkit
A Quiet Energy Revolution         
Activists lead towns to consensus on 100% clean energy
​Norman, OK and Hanover, NH
Action toolkit     
People Over Parking Lots       
Zoning change for walkable neighborhoods:
​Buffalo NY and Fayetteville, AR
 
Action toolkit
Rising Green from the Ashes         
Incentives help wildfire victims rebuild zero carbon homes

Action toolkit


Riding into the Future         
Want more bike lanes? First, get some chalk. 

Action toolkit


Batteries Save the Day
Towns choose battery storage over power plants 

Action toolkit

For more Cool Solutions episodes and Action toolkits,
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Check out these links for other great climate podcasts:
Mothers of Invention     Features women from around the world taking climate action
Stepping up     Inspiring stories about climate activists  from all walks of life                  
Climate Connections      Weekly 2 minute briefs on climate news and solutions

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