Local Foods

• Join or start a community garden
• Keep it social: Share recipes and meals with neighbors and friends
• Start a ‘Menu for the Future’ discussion group

Energy Efficiency

• If you are a member of a faith-based organization, consider joining Ohio Interfaith Power and Light. The mission of OhIPL is to empower a religious response to climate change and to promote energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. OhIPL provides opportunities to network and fellowship with people from diverse faith communities who are responding to climate change. OhIPL welcomes membership from churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, and other faith communities; or from committees or groups within those bodies. For more information, visit http://www.ohipl.org/

Advanced and Renewable Energy

• Educate your friends and neighbors by letting them know that advanced and renewable energy can and does work in Northeast Ohio. Share this primer: (link to uploaded 101 primer-coming soon!)

Vital Neighborhoods

• Get involved in your community by joining a block club
• Volunteer in your neighborhood at a school, senior center or other association that improves the quality of life where you live

Vibrant Green Space

• Join or create a “friends of” group to adopt a park or greenspace and keep it free of litter
• Consider creating a Reimagining Cleveland project on a vacant parcel in your community

For more ways to reduce your community’s environmental impact, visit our resources page.