Following a presentation, Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment, by world-renowned rainforest activist John Seed, director of Rainforest Information Centre, a group of New Yorkers came together to form the New York Climate Action Group (NYCAG).

The grassroots organization is working on healing Earth's climate by focusing on actions that can be taken at the local level in New York City and the surrounding region.

The first working group that formed within the organization chose to adopt Rainforest Relief's campaign to end the use of tropical hardwoods by a href="http://www.rainforestrelief.org/Campaigns/New_York_City_s_Rainforest_Wood.html'>New York City.

Deforesation accounts for at least 20% of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gas emissions. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concluded that "[c]urbing deforestation is a highly cost-effective way to reduce emissions; large-scale international pilot programmes to explore the best ways to do this could get underway very quickly."

Join with NYCAG to help take climate change to the local level.