New Book ‘Save the Planet in Your Spare Time’ Launches August 3

If you want to learn how to do more to protect the climate, don’t miss the launch of Joyce Mercado’s book, Save the Planet in Your Spare Time – A Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person , on Saturday, August 3, 3:30 p.m., at Books Inc., 1344 Park Street.

Mercado, book author and climate protection columnist for the Alameda Post , will be interviewed by Ruth Abbe, leader of Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda .

About the book

Save the Planet in Your Spare Time – A Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person chronicles Mercado’s journey to becoming a climate protection leader in Alameda so others 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 who are able to influence others in their communities to protect the climate, community by community, are essential to 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,” Mercado says. “We need thousands of leaders like you in communities across the country and the world to solve the climate crisis. Together we can make a difference!”

The book launch will present ways to become a climate leader in the community Mercado notes. Save the Planet in Your Spare Time – A Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person is available at Books Inc. and at Amazon .

About the author

Joyce Mercado has been an effective climate activist in the Alameda community for the last 20 years, while holding a full-time job as a Technical Sales Manager for IBM and raising two children with her husband David. In addition to her writing for the Alameda Post , she is an Al Gore program-trained Climate Reality Project Leader who has given dozens of presentations on climate protection.

Mercado created 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. Mercado also has served as Community Service Chair and President of the Rotary Club of Alameda .

Mercado earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and went to graduate school at Princeton University to study plasma (electrically charged gas) physics for two years. After deciding that plasma physics was not for her, she attended her first on-campus interview, and got a job at IBM, which she held for the next 35 years. She lives in Alameda with her husband David.

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