You may be applying some of these measures already – using compact fluorescent light bulbs, driving a hybrid car, using public transportation, or supplementing your energy use with solar or wind power. Scientists estimate that cutting carbon emissions by 70% will stabilize the climate – a tall order, but a goal that is not only achievable but essential.

Trees, Water & People is working in the US and internationally to fight global climate change using several different approaches. In Central and South America, we build improved cooking stoves that reduce both carbon emissions and deforestation. Just one of our improved stoves saves 7.5 tons of carbon over its lifetime and saves up to 70% in fuel wood usage. We also plant tens of thousands of trees annually, re-establishing natural "carbon reservoirs" in these severely deforested countries.

We build solar heating systems and wind power generators on Native American reservations in the American West. Our projects all reflect our basic belief that appropriate technology, sustainably used, creates positive change that ripples out from the smallest community to the whole planet.