Do you want to do more to protect the climate, but are unsure how to proceed given your busy schedule?  If so, this book is for you! It chronicles the author’s journey to becoming a climate protection leader in Alameda so others can learn from her experience.

The book covers:

• • • Reducing your emissions
    • Creating and distributing a climate protection checklist and resource list in your community
    • Writing for the local press
    • Jumping at opportunities as they present themselves
    • Partnering with other organizations
    • Building leadership actions into your daily life
    • Taking political action
    • Presenting on climate change
    • Maintaining your optimism

Leaders influencing others in their communities to protect the climate, community by community, is an essential element in fighting climate change.  You can be an effective part of the solution to the climate crisis with the guidance in this handbook. Anyone can be such a leader, even if you have a busy lifestyle. We need thousands of leaders like you in communities nationwide and worldwide to solve the climate crisis.  Together we can make a difference!

The book can be ordered from IngramSpark by your favorite bookstore and is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Save-Planet-Your-Spare-Time/dp/B0D3MY1XSR. 

About the Author:

Joyce Mercado has been an effective climate activist in her community of Alameda for the last twenty years even while holding a full-time job as a Technical Sales Manager for IBM and raising two children with her husband David. Joyce is a monthly climate protection columnist for the local press, and an Al Gore program-trained Climate Reality Project Leader who has given dozens of presentations on climate protection. As a member of many climate protection organizations, Joyce created of the Alameda Climate Protection Checklist and Resource List with 70 actions individuals can take and the City of Alameda has recognized her for her climate protection leadership.

The climate emergency prompted her to write this book when she retired so others could learn from her experience to become climate leaders in their communities. Joyce is a proud Rotarian having served as Community Service Chair and President of the Rotary Club of Alameda. Joyce has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She went to graduate school at Princeton University to study plasma (electrically charged gas) physics for two years.  Joyce decided plasma physics was not for her, attended her first on-campus interview, and got a job at IBM for the next 35 years. Joyce lives in Alameda, California with her husband David.