JOYCE MERCADO at Books Inc. Alameda

Meet Joyce Mercado, author of Save the Planet in Your Own Time: A Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person.

She will be in conversation with Ruth Abbe, Leader of Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda.

If you want to become a climate protection leader in your community in your spare time, this is your handbook.

Save the Planet in Your Spare Time: The Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person, chronicles the author’s journey to becoming an effective activist in her town of Alameda, California, so you can learn from her experience.
The book covers:

• Reducing your emissions
• Creating and distributing a climate protection checklist and resource list in your community
• Writing for the local press
• Jumping at opportunities as they present themselves
• Partnering with other organizations
• Building leadership actions into your daily life
• Taking political action
• Presenting on climate change
• Maintaining your optimism

Leaders influencing others in their communities to protect the climate, community by community, is an essential element in fighting climate change and you can be an effective part of the solution to the climate crisis with the guidance in this handbook.
Anyone can be such a leader, even if you have a busy life. We need thousands of leaders like you in communities across the country and around the world to solve the climate crisis. Together, we can make a difference!

Joyce Mercado has been an effective climate activist in her community of Alameda for the last twenty years even while holding a full-time job as a Technical Sales Manager for IBM and raising two children with her husband David. Joyce is a monthly climate protection columnist for the local press, an Al Gore program-trained Climate Reality Project Leader who has given dozens of presentations on climate protection, a member of many climate protection organizations, creator of the Alameda Climate Protection Checklist and Resource List with 70 actions individuals can take and has been recognized by the City of Alameda for her climate protection leadership.

The climate emergency prompted her to write this book when she retired so others could learn from her experience to become climate leaders in their communities. Joyce is a proud Rotarian having served as Community Service Chair and President of the Rotary Club of Alameda. Joyce has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Joyce went to graduate school at Princeton University to study plasma (electrically charged gas) physics for two years. Joyce decided plasma physics was not for her, attended her first on-campus interview, and got a job at IBM for the next 35 years. Joyce lives in Alameda, California with her husband David.

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