If you want to become a climate protection leader in your community in your spare time, this is your handbook.

Save the Planet in Your Spare Time: The Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person, chronicles the author's journey to becoming an effective activist in her town of Alameda, California, so you 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 and 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 life. We need thousands of leaders like you in communities across the country and around the world to solve the climate crisis. Together, we can make a difference!