3 Tools for Curated Climate Action
April is Earth Month — a time to celebrate our planet and engage with the ongoing efforts to solve the world's most pressing environmental problems.
For many, these 30 days are a time for reflection on personal responsibility and a call to action to contribute to the global effort toward a more sustainable future.
Among all the environmental challenges impacting both human communities and natural ecosystems globally, none is as urgent or all-encompassing as anthropogenic climate change.
Yes, we need our governments and corporations to make necessary large-scale changes, and, yes, individuals also can, and need to, play a role in reducing emissions. As with many issues we've confronted in the past, meaningful change often begins locally. Whenever we take individual climate action and support solutions at the grassroots level, we’re engaging in the solutions. What’s more: our individual actions can spark transformative shifts that reverberate and inspire broader, far-reaching solutions.
We’re kicking off Earth Month by sharing a selection of resources designed to inspire practical climate action — personalized for you. We hope these tools help you feel empowered to see yourself and your community as a tangible driver of climate solutions.
The Climate Action Venn Diagram
How can you – yes, you – help solve climate change? Well, let’s find out with a handy tool from renowned climate communicator Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
This Climate Action Venn Diagram leverages three simple questions and a dose of self-reflection to help the user chart a path toward climate action opportunities that align with their specific skills, networks, and interest areas. Everybody has a role to play in the climate project and unique value to add. Importantly, this exercise emphasizes the importance of pursuing opportunities that energize and enliven — so joy can sustain action and vice versa.
Want more inspiration? Watch this 10-minute video from Dr. Johnson on finding joy in climate action.
The Cool Down
The Cool Down is your personal guide to climate-friendly lifestyle choices. Developed by LandWatch member Dave Finocchio, this resource is all about “making it easy to help yourself while helping the planet.”
Share your everyday goals — from lowering your bills, to saving money on groceries and using tax credits to electrify your whip or rig — and TCD will show you how to achieve them all in the cleanest and coolest ways possible.
Project Regeneration
Launched by the bestselling book Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation from environmentalist author Paul Hawken, Project Regeneration is a hub offering the world’s largest, most complete listing of solutions to the climate crisis.
The Project’s approach to the climate crisis weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that aims to end the climate crisis in just one generation.
For anyone who has been overwhelmed with questions about what climate actions are most meaningful, their punch lists are the perfect tool to help guide your forward and give yourself some accountability.
There’s just one Central Oregonian with a punch list so far - shout out to Jinny Reed! - let’s see if we get more folks on this map! If you start one, please let us know.
Central Oregon LandWatch pursues regional climate solutions
By defending our region’s farms, forests, and waterways, Central Oregon LandWatch is fostering more climate-resilient landscapes. And by guiding the growth of our cities and towns in sustainable, intentional ways, we are creating more climate-friendly, Complete Communities.
On Earth Day 2025, we launched our FORWARD TOGETHER CHALLENGE MATCH. If you aren’t a member yet, please join our community working to tackle climate change and preserve livability here in Central Oregon.