Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County has a free online guide to Gardens in the Face of a Changing Climate.
This detailed guide to combating global warming from the ground up will teach you how to have a "climate-friendly" garden. It provides ways to reduce chemical inputs, improve compost, and how to use cover crops to increase soil health.
Created by the Union of Concerned Scientists, this guide states "Many gardeners already see evidence of global warming in their own backyards, and further climate change– accompanied by more droughts, floods, in certain pests and weed – may challenge even the greenest thumb. But you can do more than merely adapt to these new conditions: you can make choices in your garden that don't add to the problem. The Climate-Friendly Gardener summarizes the science linking plants, soil, carbon dioxide, and other heat-trapping gases and offers tips for planning a garden that takes advantage of these connections. You'll learn how practices such as crop rotation, cover crops, tree planting, and "low-input" lawn and garden maintenance well on reducing global warming emissions."