By Neda Arabshahi Clean Air-Cool Planet Climate Policy Fellow Friday, July 30, 2009 Interview with Caleb Pungowiyi. Mr. Pungowiyi is a spokesperson and advocate for Native peoples of Alaska, he is a Yup’ik Eskimo who was born and raised on Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island. Please tell me about your experience with climate change and what [...]
Archive for August 2009
Paths through the Arctic lead to Washington, DC
August 18, 2009By Ben Wessel 2009 Clean Air-Cool Planet Climate Fellow for Policy Communications Working on the ground in DC to influence climate policy is important work, but sometimes it’s easy to get trapped in a maze of numbers, analyses, rumors, and blogs. Somewhere between calculating the percentage of carbon permits allocated to state wildlife and natural [...]
Buttoning up drafty old buildings with care
August 13, 2009By Katie Miller, Clean Air-Cool Planet 2009 Climate Fellow Last Saturday morning, I found myself on a beautiful farm in Concord, NH, walking through colorful flower gardens and inhaling the sweet scent of hay. As I wasn’t sure what to expect at a workshop for “improving energy efficiency of older homes,” this was definitely a [...]
