Introduction | Participate | Understand | Monitor | Adapt | Mitigate | Activities | Case Studies | Links | Downloadable PDF

Our Climate Our Future is a multimedia experience that educates young people about the science of climate change and empowers them to take action.

Impacts of Climate Change on Gardening

• National Wildlife Federation’s Gardener Guide
  This comprehensive site will help you find out how wildlife and plants are affected by global warming, about updated garden zone maps and America’s top invasive species.
• Article from Cornell Department of Horticulture
  Come spring, expect fewer blooms, due to mild early winter, say Cornell horticulturists.
• Feeling Warmth, Subtropical Plants Move North
  This New York Times article addresses both the good and the bad of climate change’s impacts on gardening.

Monitoring Climate Change in the Garden

• Plant Watch
  This citizen science program from the University of Alberta engages students and the general public to study and monitor springtime flowering times.
• Project Budburst
  This national field campaign targets native tree and flower species across the country. With your help, they will be compiling valuable environmental and climate change information around the United States.

Creating a Garden for Climate Change Education

Adapting to Climate Change in the Garden

• • Gardener’s Confront Global Warming
    Learn what you can do to confront global warming — this comprehensive guide helps you take action in your backyard, community and with elected officials!
  • Climate Change in the Garden
    This article addresses how gardeners can help reduce climate change through a few simple practices in their backyard.
  • Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions: This website provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary gateway to climate change events, initiatives, research, student courses and organizations, and public engagement at Cornell University.

Mitigating Climate Change through Gardening

• • • Guidelines for Earth-Friendly Lawn & Landscape Care
      Make your landscape part of the climate change solution!

Other Ways to Help Stop Climate Change

• • From Greenhouse to Green House
    The threats of climate change and what individual householders can do to reduce them.
  • The Cool Foods Campaign
    Want to reduce global warming? Join our “Cool Foods” Campaign and help take a bite out of global warming by changing the way you eat.