Making the global local: responding to climate change concerns from the ground.

From: Environment | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

We live on Earth, but we reside, work, and play in local places. Increasingly we speak of -- and often worry about -- global change, yet we perceive few phenomena in which local actions are directly connected to what happens globally. This is especially true of positive local actions such as recycling wastes or assuring energy-efficient homes and vehicles, as opposed to such negative, headline-grabbing actions as terrorism.

Perhaps the most widely recognized connection between global environmental processes and local actions is the chain of causality that drives climate ...

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