10 Things We All Can Do To Help Mitigate Climate Change In San Diego

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

By Maureen Cavanaugh, Megan Burke

Aired 9/12/18 on KPBS Midday Edition

10 Things We All Can Do To Help Mitigate Climate Change In Our Own Backyard

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Amber Pairis, director, Climate Science Alliance

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Photo credit: Climate Science Alliance

A poster from the Climate Science Alliance with 10 things everyone can do to help mitigate climate change in San Diego.

News about climate change can make people feel helpless. But there are researchers in San Diego working on ways for communities to mitigate the effects of climate change in their own backyards.

The Climate Science Alliance in partnership with Scripps Institution of Oceanography has just published a pocket guide with 10 things we all can do to help take the pressure off wildlife and the natural landscape around us.

Amber Pairis, director of the Climate Science Alliance, joins Midday Edition Wednesday.

The Climate Science Alliance pocket guides will be available at all 36 branches of the San Diego library system in October.

The urgency of addressing human causes of climate change has long been apparent. To amplify this issue that's paramount to us all, KPBS has launched a Climate Change Desk to step up our coverage of this existential threat including reported stories and interviews with experts and newsmakers.

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