What can I do as an individual in my own life?

Calculate your footprint here
http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.html

Here is a whole page of simple tips from Friends of the Earth UK
http://www.foe.co.uk/living/tips/tips.html

and another from We Can Solve It USA
http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/20/

Change your diet. Agriculture is responsible for a third of global warming. Go meatless at least once a week if you are not yet vegetarian
Find out more here

http://www.takeabite.cc/about/