from Climate Action Now’s Regenerative Farms, Forests & Food Systems Workgroup
Garden for pollinators and biodiversity
- Landscape with native plants which have evolved with native pollinators
- Don’t use pesticides/herbicides. Use regenerative growing practice.
- Leave dead trees, stumps and logs – homes for birds, bees and other pollinators
- Transform some of your lawn into a pollinator garden or meadow
- Cut grass higher, every other week
- Turn off outdoor lights when not using them
- Replace noisy, polluting gas mowers and leaf blowers with electric equipment
Protect and restore ecosystems
- Preserve forests as wild so they can become “old growth”
- Preserve and restore wetlands so they can store carbon and support wildlife
- Preserve farmland. support soil health and regenerative eco-agriculture
Support a local healthy food system
- Join a food coop and CSA
- Buy local organic food and support eco-regenerative farmers
- Compost your food waste — support universal food waste curbside pickup
- Buy only food you will use
- Eat less beef and dairy — huge sources of emissions
Transportation is the largest source of CO2 emissions
- Drive less – use public transportation, bike, rideshare, bundle errands
- Make your next car purchase an electric one
- Keep tires properly inflated. Drive your car gently
- Don’t idle your vehicle and remind others
Make your home climate friendly
- Convert gas and oil heating to solar panels and electric heat pumps
- Insulate your house
- Turn off appliances when not in use
- Build efficiently – solar-ready roofs, heat pumps,insulated walls.
- Buy local, buy less, recycle, upcycle
- Buy chemical free, plastic free products
- Contact Mass Save for a free energy audit – masssave.com
Collective political action raises awareness and makes change
- Work for and vote for politicians who are climate champions
- Support climate, environmental, and food justice legislation
- Call, write, talk to your local officials and state representatives
Join with others to build the climate movement and feel hope
- Regenerative Farming, Forests and Food Systems http://climateactionnowma.org/farms-forests-food/
- Climate Action Now: www.climateactionnowma.org
- Northeast Organic Farming Assoc./Mass. https://www.nofamass.org/
- MAPN Mass. Pollinator Network: https://www.nofamass.org/mass-pollinator-network/
- Elders Climate Action: www.eldersclimateaction.org
- Extinction Rebellion (XR): https://rebellion.global
- Hadley Climate Committee: https://www.hadleyma.org/climate-change-committee
- Mothers Out Front: www.mothersoutfront.org
- Save Mass Forests: https://www.restore.org
- Massachusetts Sierra Club: https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts
- Wendell State Forest Alliance: https://wendellforest.org