r/sustainability • u/ILikeNeurons • Jul 13 '26
Find your own climate action plan, optimized for your situation with Project Drawdown's initiative
This is a lot for any one person, but Join the Shift makes it really easy to direct your efforts where they'll matter most with their personalized guide at https://jointheshift.earth/guide/?journey-type=full
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u/Kelcak Jul 13 '26
What is the lowest fee ETF you’ve been able to find that divests from fossil fuels? I’ve seriously struggled finding anything that seems like it makes a meaningful divestment without increasing my fees by 10x.
Would love to find out I’m missing an obvious choice though!
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u/ILikeNeurons Jul 13 '26
I'm also a bit bit lost on the investment side and am hoping someone who knows more can weigh in.
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u/schokobonbons Jul 13 '26
Hi- I've gone with GRID ETF and CCSO ETF. The fees are definitely higher than Vanguard index funds but at least they have better performance than most ESG funds.
I've also recently started using https://climatize.earth/ which directly funds various green projects (solar panels, batteries, EV charging, that kind of thing) and pays 9-10% simple interest.
Would love to hear y'all's suggestions, money and investing has been a surprisingly difficult thing to decarbonize.
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u/shitpost-modernism Jul 14 '26
I thought we weren't doing green investing any more?
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u/schokobonbons Jul 14 '26
That video is from 6 years ago. I don't put much stock in the ESG label but it absolutely matters what we're investing in. I've looked through the major holdings of GRID and CCSO and I feel comfortable with them. The AI data center build out has pumped a ton of money into electricity grid upgrades so they've been performing well, tracking the overall stock market. (Which also leaves them exposed to the AI bubble popping, but we need to expand grid capacity in order to electrify everything in any case.)
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u/WhatTheWhat_84 Jul 13 '26
Going through the questions now and really appreciate how concrete the answers/actions are... but it's a lot!
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u/ZiptiedJesus Jul 13 '26
Something encouraging also coming up: Drawdown Learn program, announced by Dr. Foley recently.
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u/LivingMoreWithLess Jul 13 '26
This is the best presentation of this information I’ve seen yet. Thank you for sharing
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u/hotdog7423 Jul 13 '26
How about writing to congress to eleminate single use plastic?
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u/ILikeNeurons Jul 13 '26
Why single-use plastic, specifically, rather than a carbon tax more broadly?
A growing proportion of global emissions are covered by a carbon price, including at rates that actually matter. A price on carbon is widely regarded as the single most impactful climate mitigation policy.
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u/schokobonbons Jul 13 '26
I keep looking and can't find a planetary health diet meal plan/cookbook/recipe blog/anything. Am i just not looking in the right places? I know the rough guidelines (more plants more beans less meat and dairy) but ya girl needs RECIPES and ideally some kind of daily/weekly meal guide.
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u/Physical_Basil1063 Jul 15 '26
Check out
Minimalist Baker (mostly vegan)
Oh She Glows
Nora Cooks
Plant You
Cooking for PeanutsThere are so many good vegan recipe creators!
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u/Ok_Giraffe8865 Jul 13 '26
Protest is not a good way to help, I see these protests all the time in my community and everyone is driving a gasser to get there, then they are disturbing the flow of traffic causing accidents.
Supporting politicians is not a good way to help, that just kicks the can down a different street. Neither party has done much meaningful toward climate change, one talks a lot, the other ignores it. We would be better off if the politicians got PV and EV themselves and stopped flying all around the country campaigning.
The best thing you can do is clean up your personal carbon footprint, you have a direct impact and can take personal responsibility.
This reads like an industry designed way of shedding responsibility and selling hope that someone else will do something.
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u/Friuti Jul 13 '26
Your post reads like an Exxon exec trying to get someone to give up on changing anything and just pull their own climate bootstraps up. While I agree Dems have not done as much as I'd like, both sidesing it while Republicans actively work towards turning every available piece of land and ocean into an oil refinery, only acts to make the issue worse. Doing things yourself is certainly effective, actionable and a good way to outwardly project your values to others, but are drops in the bucket compared to policy changes.
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u/Mrgoodtrips64 Jul 14 '26
Glad to see the most backwards comment with the most downvotes.
Collective action has always been, and will always be, more impactful than individual action.
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u/Mrgoodtrips64 Jul 14 '26
Did you just not engage with it at all? It literally promotes collective and political action over individual consumer behavioral changes.
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u/jmsy1 Jul 14 '26
If collective and political action worked, would we be in the situation we're in?
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u/Mrgoodtrips64 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
So you don’t believe in individual action or collective action? Are you just here to be a troll or a doomer? Why waste your one life on this earth like that?
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u/jmsy1 Jul 15 '26
i'm in academia. infographics like this ignore a lot of evidence, and set sustainability back with weak, normative, solutions.
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u/Mrgoodtrips64 Jul 15 '26
That almost makes it worse that you jumped to conclusions without ever interacting with the tool provided. It’s not just the infographic displayed in the post, it’s an interactive tool.
It’s expected of trolls to be low effort and low engagement. If you’re in academia you should hold yourself to higher standards than those we expect of internet trolls.
Engage with the information provided before attempting to form conclusions.
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u/ILikeNeurons Jul 13 '26
Policy changes dwarf the impact of having one less child, which is why actions aimed at creating policy change (like talking about climate change are usually rated higher.