This week in climate change: Communities thinking green

With the scientific community in agreement that human activity is playing a role in climate change, people around the world are looking for ways to make a difference. Changes are happening at all levels — from individuals changing their behaviors, to nations enacting policies to reduce energy use, to different sectors of society re-examining how they do business.

Among the news stories of the different strategies people are thinking about to deal with climate change reported recently via APHA's National Public Health Week News Twitter are these headlines:

• Banks to consider climate before investing in coal
• G7 to consider climate change fund: Japan
• Philippines to ban incandescent bulbs
• London pledges to be 'greenest' place to film
• Motivated by a tax, Irish spurn plastic bags