Archive for the ‘Policy’ category
October 29, 2010
By Anne Stephenson, Campus Outreach and Climate Fellows Coordinator Clean Air-Cool Planet As some of our reader might remember, Jennifer, Claire and I are teaching an on-line Carbon Management Course for the new UMASS Dartmouth Certificate in Sustainable Development. We recently interviewed our friend and colleague Brett Pasinella, from the UNH Sustainability Academy, for [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Campus Climate Action, climate change, climate education, Climate Science, Global Warming, green jobs, Policy, Research and Development, Solutions, student climate action
Tags: Anne Stephenson, audio, Brett Pasinella, CA-CP, Carbon Management Course, carbon reduction projects, Evaluating Projects, Trasition to Plan, UMASS Dartmouth, UMASS Dartmouth Certificate in Sustainable Development, UNH, UNH Sustainability Academy
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September 22, 2010
By Bob Sheppard CA-CP CFO and vice president of the Corporate Program, Clean Air-Cool Planet This is the last full day of summer, and with the primaries behind us, all eyes are turning towards the November mid-term elections. Folks who have spent the last 15 months focused on building support for comprehensive climate and energy [...]
Categories: Advocacy, business, Carbon Management, Climate, climate change, Climate Science, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, environment, Global Warming, government planning, green jobs, local energy, oil, Planning, Policy, Research and Development, sustainability
Tags: Bob Sheppard, BP Oil Spill, Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change solutions, climate policy, Community Planning, Conservation New Hampshire, elections, Energy Efficiency, environmental protection, environmentalism, global warming, green jobs, Ken Colburn, Local Energy Committees, Michael Dennehy, NH Primary, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Steve Marchand, Stonyfield Farm, sustainability, The Marchand Group, University of New Hampshire Survey Center, US Senate
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September 17, 2010
As the national interest in acting to curb global warming wanes and Mother Nature picks up steam, the divide widens.
Categories: Arctic, Climate, Climate Change Skeptics, Climate Science, Energy Efficiency, False Solutions to Climate Change, Food, Green House Gas Emissions, Policy, sea ice, sustainability
Tags: Arctic, arctic warming, carbon footprint, Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, climate policy, coral bleaching, Democrats, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, EPA CAA, False Solutions to Climate Change, food and climate, Fox news, global warming, global warming skeptics, GOP, hurricanes, Jay RockeFeller, Mid-term elections, NASA GISS, Republicans, sea ice, Senetor, surface temperature, sustainability, weather and climate
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August 4, 2010
By Corey Johnson Climate Fellow, Clean Air-Cool Planet Corey Johnson is going into his senior year at UNH as a business administration major with a minor in sustainable living. He has collaborated with CA-CP in the past on the development and implementation of the Small Town Carbon Calculator (STOCC). Most recently, he has been involved [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Carbon Management, Climate, Climate Change Skeptics, Climate Science, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, government planning, Policy, Research and Development, Solutions, sustainability
Tags: cap and trade, Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change solutions, climate policy, CO2, Congress, Energy Efficiency, global warming, global warming skeptics, GOP, sustainability, The Economist, Yale
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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 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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June 25, 2010
Welcome to COOL PLANET, the climate blog with a difference: The authors here have been providing solutions to climate change for years. There have been a lot of lessons learned. We look forward to sharing them – ours, and yours – here, as another step toward a COOL PLANET. Send email to: bburtis@cleanair-coolplanet.org Clean Air-Cool [...]
Categories: business, Campus Climate Action, Carbon Management, Climate, climate education, Climate Science, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, environment, Fuel Efficiency, green jobs, local energy, Media, Planning, Policy, Recycling, Research and Development, sustainability
Tags: carbon footprint, Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, climate policy, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, global warming, green jobs, Local Energy Committees, sustainability
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June 21, 2010
By Leah Bamberger, Climate Fellow Clean Air – Cool Planet Leah Bamberger did her undergraduate studies in political science and environmental studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC and is now at UMass Amherst pursing a master’s degree in regional planning, where her primary research area of interest is planning [...]
Categories: BP, Campus Climate Action, Climate Science, Energy Efficiency, environment, False Solutions to Climate Change, fossil fuels, Fuel Efficiency, Geoengineering, government planning, green jobs, Gulf Coast, Obama, oil, oil spill, Planning, Policy, Research and Development, Solutions, Wildlife
Tags: biofuels, BP, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change solutions, climate fellows, climate policy, Energy Efficiency, environment, environmentalism, False Solutions to Climate Change, fossil fuels, global warming, green jobs, Gulf Coast, international agreement, Obama, Offshore Drilling, oil, oil dependence, oil spill, sustainability
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June 16, 2010
By David Borden, Guest Blogger NH State Representative David Borden is a NH State Representative from New Castle. He serves as clerk of the House Science, Technology, and Energy committee; as a state legislator, he sponsored legislation to promote the use of biodiesel in New Hampshire, authored and sponsored bills to allow towns [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Climate Science, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Efficiency, green jobs, local energy, Policy, Research and Development, Uncategorized
Tags: Bio Heat, biofuels, carbon footprint, Carbon Management, Energy Efficiency, energy reduction, Grappone Center, green jobs, Local Energy Committees, Local Energy Solutions Conference, renewable energy, sustainability, weatherization
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