Why Change Your Address?

When I began the Climate Change of Address website and Facebook page it was because I was ready to find a better place to live through the hell and high water coming our way as the climate hammer hits us harder and harder and harder each year.

I was looking for a place with less wildfire and mudslide threats, less droughts, less extreme weather and fewer extreme heat days. A safe place for our future.

I did a deep dive of research and discovery. I made plans for a massive road trip that would take me all the way up the west coast to Vancouver. But it didn’t take me very long at all to realize there was no better place. No place that will escape the hammer. No place to run and hide to.

And like most families, mine wanted no part of uprooting and moving at this point in our lives. All our friends and institutions are here. This is where we want to keep living our lives.

So we ditched the idea of moving to a new climate address and figured out that we needed to change the climate address of where we live right now.

I stopped offering the evidence of why you’ll need a climate change of address, and where you might move to and shifted my full focus to the things you’d want to do to your home to get ready for all the things that are coming. I’m using our own 70+ year old house as the example and sharing what I’ve learned as we’ve added solar and batteries, heat pump ductless mini-splits, heat pump hot water, electric oven/induction burner, insulation and whole house envelope tightening, a new cool roof and a whole lot more. Feel free to go to school on us.

You can check our Climate Change of Address Facebook page for ongoing news links about different addresses and what’s happening there

THE ARCHIVES

May 24, 2019