Make your voice heard in Washington by directly contacting the President, your Senators, and your Representatives. They actually do pay close attention to the views and opinions of their constituents, so make it clear to them that the climate emergency is foremost in your mind as the most important challenge of our times.

Many climate change policies can only be addressed at the national level. Here are just a few of the major climate issues that our national leaders need to take immediate action on:

* Set national emissions standards
* Subsidize electric vehicles
* Subsidize battery research
* Build electric charging stations
* Adopt a carbon tax

* Open electric markets to competition

* Modernize the electric grid

We need to let our leaders know that we are very concerned about these and other climate-related issues. You can contact most of your federal elected officials via web contact forms or all of them by U.S. mail or phone.
* Here are some links to the various ways to contact these politicians:

CONTACT THE WHITEHOUSE

FIND YOUR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR

Many states and communities have begun to directly address climate change by taking decisive action. California leads the nation in taking action at the state level to take measurable steps to lower fossil fuel emissions. Many cities have also begun to source their electricity from renewable energy sources, mandate cleaner production techniques, and enact regulations or incentives to limit industrial emissions. Additionally, other communities have been investing in greener infrastructure, building bike lanes, providing subsidies for renewable energy, and building parks and increasing municipal tree-planting to reduce their carbon footprint.

Your voice can make a critical difference in your local community and state on how your government addresses climate change. You can contact your local and state representatives by phone, U.S. mail, or website contacts in some cases.
* Here are links to find out who they are and how to contact them:

FIND YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES

CONTACT YOUR STATE GOVERNOR

FIND YOUR CITY’S MAYOR

CONTACT LOCAL OFFICIALS

Many, many more people need to understand the pressing need for action to confront the global climate emergency. Thus far, the media has not addressed this issue with the urgency that is demanded by this crisis. It is presented as just another story among the many others competing for our attention, when in reality it is the most important issue that humanity has ever faced.

As elders in our communities, we can press this issue to the forefront of our local news by using every means at our disposal:

* Write letters to the editor of your local newspapers. Here is how to find your local newspapers:
FIND LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

* Create public events highlighting climate change and let the public know via TV, radio, and newspapers. Here is how to find your local TV and Radio stations:
FIND LOCAL TV STATIONS
FIND LOCAL PBS RADIO STATIONS
FIND LOCAL RADIO STATIONS

* Use social media to spread the word on the climate crisis. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and many others are available to use. Be warned, however, that once you step up and begin to address climate change issues publicly, you will find that there are some very vocal climate change deniers in nearly every community who will challenge your message. Be strong and remember that you are fighting for the future of your and everyone’s children and grandchildren. You can share this website page or any other by using the links below to Facebook, Google+, or Twitter. If you use other social media, please share this website as well.

* Contact your local TV weatherperson and lobby them to include more climate change information in their broadcasts.

* Make it easy for local journalists to cover climate change by providing them with local stories that highlight climate change actions [for example: bike trails and climate change; electric car charging stations and climate change; local businesses that are confronting climate change; local government steps to address climate change, etc.].

* Bring up climate change issues at local governmental meetings that are covered by the local press.