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1) Find out what your city is already doing to become more sustainable and reduce its contribution
to global warming. Click here to see if your city is already on Oregon Local Sustainability's
list of communities that are working to prevent climate change.
2) Once you know a little about what your city is or is not doing so far, it's time to contact the
mayor or a city councilor. If your city already has some kind of policy or formal agreement on sustainability, it will be
your job to make sure it lives up to its lofty goals. If the city currently lacks any such policy, then formulating
one might be a good place to start for you to apply your efforts. Consider asking your city to sign onto the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement as a possible means to get the community thinking about climate change. For a more detailed step-by-step
plan of action to get your city working on sustainability, click here.
3) Report back to this site on the main blog about progress you have make; and feel free to ask questions, too. The purpose of this site is to help you accomplish change
in your community, and your questions or concerns will be answered in a timely manner.
If we can get enough people in different cities working on sustainability and reporting back to this site, we will
soon have a statewide network of activists accomplishing real change. But this all depends on people like you beginning to
work with your city government. There's no time like the present to get started.
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