By Natalie Berland, 2009 Summer Climate Fellow For the past month, my travels around the State of Connecticut have brought me to many quaint towns and I have met really nice people. My job – as a CA-CP Climate Fellow – is to survey clean energy committees and task forces around the state and figure [...]
Archive for July 2009
Eat your vegetables, and be proud!
July 30, 2009A Better Face for Climate Change
July 28, 2009By Krista Macomber, Clean Air-Cool Planet Our webmaster Kay Harrison recently put me to work finding climate change news stories for the next edition of our science center newsletter. I scoured the web, but instead of generating the list of educational yet interesting and upbeat articles which would appeal to K-12 students that I was [...]
My Hero, ARPA-E
July 23, 2009By Sara Kaufman, Clean Air-Cool Planet Intern I used to know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a scientist or a musician. My father named these personas Alberta Einsteinia and Betty Goodwoman. Since my elementary school days of gravity wells and aching cheeks, I have moved into a [...]
Climate activists sign up for “Conference on Wheels,” Brita Climate Ride
July 22, 2009By Geraldine Carter Co-Founder, Brita Climate Ride Just another couple of months until the second annual Brita Climate Ride, to benefit Clean Air-Cool Planet, Focus the Nation and the Rails to Trails Conservancy! With my friend and colleague Caeli Quinn, I’m the co-founder and co-director of Climate Ride – and proud to be dropping in [...]
Blogging the Blog
July 16, 2009Julia Meisel Clean Air-Cool Planet Summer Fellow Yale University All summer it’s been nagging at me… I need to blog. Blogging is not a task with which I am very familiar, but it is not unfamiliarity that has kept me from it. Not dread either. Just what could I possibly have to blog about? Many [...]
Zero-Waste Football?
July 14, 2009By Olivia Marie Bulger Summer Intern, Clean Air-Cool Planet Football and composting; not two things one normally associates. As a summer intern at CA-CP, my research on the successes and challenges of composting at the country’s colleges and universities led to the University of Colorado at Boulder, a place where sports meet sustainability in a [...]
Mission Accomplished
July 7, 2009By Bill Burtis Manager, Communications and Special Projects Clean Air-Cool Planet I’m going home. My work, apparently, is done. The globe is cooling; global warming has been called off, revoked, turned around – miraculously permitted to disoccur. That’s the latest pitch by the global warming deniers in their continuing attempt to save the profit margins [...]
CSA – Hooray!
July 2, 2009By Teal Tigner Corporate Program Consultant Clean Air-Cool Planet I have always loved vegetables. I’m probably the only 5 year old who asked for a dinner of steamed veggies … with a side of French fries, of course. I mean, I was still 5 even if I DID love vegetables. Fortunately, my love of veggies [...]
