Take Action

What Clinicians Can Do:

There are multiple actions that Clinicians can engage in to improve health and climate. The following are a variety of activities to consider:

Listen & Learn

• Follow literature on health & climate.
• Learn about the eight ways that climate is affecting our health now.
• Look for case studies within your practice. Notice when climate-induced factors (e.g., heat, allergies, vectors) affect your patients.
• Document patient stories or trends you see in your practice as they relate to climate and health.

Educate

• Educate your patients.
• Hand out fact sheets or MyGreenDoctor brochures.
• Hang posters in your office.
• Talk to patients about climate & health.
• Educate your community.
• Give talks or lectures.

Speak Out

• Join a sign-on letter.
• Set up/join/attend a meeting with a lawmaker and tell them that climate is impacting our health.   
• Do an interview with the media to talk about climate and health.
• Submit a Letter to the Editor or an Op-Ed.

Walk the Talk

• Go green in your own office by following the easy guide at MyGreenDoctor.org.

Get Involved

• Make sure you have signed the Tampa Declaration on Climate & Health.
• Make sure you are signed up as an FCCA Member.
• Become a Clinician Climate Educator.
• Join FCCA monthly calls, email program staff fccastaff@ms2ch.org for call details.
• Join an FCCA Committee such as Research, Education or Government Affairs.   
• Attend our events, or participate in a trip to the Capitol to talk to lawmakers.
• Recruit other health professionals to join our effort.