I held a meeting about climate change with a dozen of my neighbors in the mobile home park where I live. We started with a go-around on what people liked about our environment. Then I gave a presentation on the basics of climate change. I presented charts that I use when I teach climate change in middle and high schools in Santa Cruz County (in California, USA). People paid good attention. We had a mini-session followed by questions and answers. At the end I handed out a list of things that people can do individually and collectively. Several people asked to have another meeting next month, and all thanked me for starting this. 


Next time I plan to have “news and goods” about climate change and a report back on people’s use of the suggestions for things to do. Then I’d like to address people’s feelings more directly. I may show parts of a documentary I helped make of interviews with people in Santa Cruz county who are affected by climate change: <vimeo.com/134785744>. A second documentary deals with soil and climate change: The Dirt on Climate Change: <vimeo.com/265117298>. It was also made here in Santa Cruz.