Archive for July 2010
July 26, 2010
By Bill Burtis Manager, Communications and Special Projects, Clean Air-Cool Planet It doesn’t often happen that when you offer people money, they don’t show up. But that’s exactly the position we at Clean Air-Cool Planet find ourselves in, and we’re not going to take it anymore. So, you are going to hear from us. If [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Carbon Management, Climate, climate education, Community Action, environment, Fundraising, Global Warming, local energy, Planning, Solutions, Uncategorized
Tags: Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change solutions, climate policy, Community Planning, Connecticut, CT, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, Fund, Fundraising, global warming, grant, local climate intiatives, Local Energy Committees, Money, New Jersey, New york, NJ, NY, Overbrook Foundation, sustainability
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July 16, 2010
By Steve Erario, Climate Fellow Clean Air-Cool Planet Steve Erario, is a Clean Air-Cool Planet Climate Fellow working with Greater Portland Council of Governments and CA-CP staff and to help produce a Maine Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Handbook for communities. A graduate in the Environmental Policy major at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, [...]
Categories: Advocacy, BP, Carbon Management, Climate Change Skeptics, Climate Science, Energy Efficiency, environment, fossil fuels, Global Warming, government planning, Gulf Coast, oil spill, Policy, Research and Development, sustainability
Tags: Aussie, Australia, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change, climate fellows, climate policy, drought, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, farming, fossil fuels, Fuel Efficiency, global warming, global warming skeptics, IPCC, job market, national policy, oil, oil spill, rain, sustainability, Sydney, water scarcity
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July 12, 2010
By Bill Burtis Manager, Communications and Special Projects, Clean Air-Cool Planet I was struck by a recent story about islanders from Panama who are being forced off their traditional homelands by rising sea levels. They are moving ashore – and deliberately seeking higher ground in the foothills of their nation’s jungles – to make sure [...]
Categories: Arctic, Climate, Climate Science, Global Warming, Policy, Sea-level Rise
Tags: Arctic, arctic warming, climate change, climate change solutions, climate data, climate policy, global warming, heat waves, science, sea ice, temperature trends
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July 9, 2010
By Leah Bamberger Climate Fellow, Clean Air-Cool Planet I would like to introduce you to the future of public transportation, Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). No more rubbing up against strangers, or waiting for that bus or train. PRT is the future of public transportation. PRT is an automated system of very light and small [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Climate Science, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Efficiency, geo-engineering, Geoengineering, New Generation, Planning, Research and Development, sustainability
Tags: Boston, Carbon Management, Climate action, climate change solutions, CO2, emission reduction, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Efficiency, Heathrow International Airport, PRT, Public Rapid Transportation, sustainability, transportation, ULTra
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July 7, 2010
By Bill Burtis Manager of Communications and Special Projects, Clean Air-Cool Planet I came across the article “The Witch Hunt of the Little Ice Age” (by Dr. Promode Kant at the Institute for a green Economy in New Delhi) during a search for science on that period of the planet’s history made famous by climate [...]
Categories: business, Climate, Climate Change Skeptics, Climate Science, False Solutions to Climate Change, fossil fuels, Global Warming, government planning, Policy, Research and Development
Tags: Arkansas, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change solutions, climate negotiations, climate policy, Dr. Promode Kant, extreme precipitation, False Solutions to Climate Change, flash flood, flooding, floods, global warming, global warming skeptics, international agreement, Lamprey River, McCarthyism, meteorology, New Hampshire, Northeastern U.S., seasons
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July 2, 2010
By Julie Munro Climate Fellow, Clean Air-Cool Planet Julie Munro is working with Claire Roby in Oklahoma on Charting Emissions from Food Services (CHEFS) and Greening Tulsa. A new graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., she was “very active in campaigning for campus sustainability and I helped to establish a community garden, [...]
Categories: Campus Climate Action, Carbon Management, Climate, climate education, Community Action, environment, Food, Gardening/horticulture, Research and Development, sustainability
Tags: carbon footprint, carbon impact, Carbon Management, Charting Emissions from Food Services, CHEFS, clean air-cool planet, climate fellows, Community Planning, community supported agriculture, corporate carbon emissions, environmentalism, farming, Food, food and climate, food production, food system, garden, institutional dining services, LCA, life cycle assessment, life cycle perspective, South Side Community Land Trust, sustainability, United States Department of Agriculture, vegetable garden
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