If you're looking for small ways to improve things locally, you might enjoy !NoLawns@slrpnk.net which focuses on native plants in yards instead of all mono culture grass. I did port the reddit wiki over so, the wiki in the sidebar has some good info.
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i wouldn't feel bad about your carbon footprint when your local corporation exceeds that trillion fold. regulation is by far the best way, not consumer choice. go ~~harass~~ inform your local and national representatives about how climate change is bad and you care about it, and kindly ask them to regulate their #1 polluters.
Did you know that the idea of your own carbon footprint was the product of a marketing campaign from BP to divert the blame away from themselves?
The biochar part is a detail, all the other pieces need to be in place to optimize the benefit.
Carbon capture comes from planting more trees and not just leaving them there, but cutting them down when their growth rate slows and planting new ones.
Creating the bio char is a byproduct of using the plant mass to heat water for the district heating system, which is an extremely efficient method of heating homes and businesses.
Biochar as a byproduct, in contrast to landfill or burning in an oxygen rich environment comes from a method where carbon release is minimized. In landfills, it's methane. In fire, it's carbon dioxide.
You can advocate for local solutions! The magic here is that they found a mix that works well for local conditions. Your city or town may already be looking at things like this. If they publish a master plan or other planning documents they may include things on energy, waste, climate change, etc. They usually aren't too detailed, but can point you to other things to look at.
That makes a lot of sense. I'll look at my city's website, maybe there's some type of residential hearing I can attend or online plan I can read.
I think the most discouraging about this for me is that even though I've seen countless headlines about climate change, I've never really bothered to be curious about it until now. Now I wish I knew how to tell this to other people without sounding like alarmist.
The other thing to keep in mind is that it is not simply a matter of personal individual responsibility. The only meaningful way to address climate change humanely is to work toward dismantling global capitalism and building toward a socialist and communist new world.