By Jim Willis, Red Bank Safe Routes Red Bank Safe Routes is a small neighborhood organization that advocates for walking and biking in downtown Red Bank, NJ. One of the benefits of living in a town like Red Bank (with its walkable downtown shops and restaurants) is that residents have the option of leaving their cars in [...]
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Making it Safer to Leave the Car at Home
May 23, 2012Building Environmental Awareness in Grand Isle County, VT
May 23, 2012By Bob Buermann, Islanders Caring for the Environment ICE (Islanders Caring for the Environment) has used a Community Catalyst Fund Grant to expand from the Town of South Hero to cover the five towns of Grand Isle County in the Champlain Islands of Vermont. ICE is a grassroots community organization that identifies opportunities and implements ways [...]
World Cafe Nourishes Sustainability in Strafford, VT
May 22, 2012By Dori Wolfe, Strafford Energy Committee The Strafford Energy Committee was thrilled to have the support of a grant from the Community Catalyst Fund of Clean Air-Cool Planet. These funds allowed our community building, Barrett Hall, to receive a long-range energy plan and for the formation of a Sustainable Strafford initiating group that took on [...]
Science Saturdays at Long Beach Island (NJ) Foundation of the Arts and Sciences
May 17, 2012By Marianne Gellman, Development Director, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences For the sixth consecutive winter, the LBIF Science Committee hosted a series of lectures and discussion programs that tackled scientific, environmental, and sustainability issues that relate to our community. The programs are open and free to the public. The 2012 sessions continued to demonstrate [...]
The Monadnock Energy Resources Initiative Gets Off the Ground
May 15, 2012By Bev Edwards, Coordinator, Monadnock Energy Resources Initiative MERI’s grant from the Community Catalyst Fund has been pivotal to our progress. It put the financial ground under our feet that enabled us to take the careful and wisest next steps toward creating a strong, effective program. It lifted us from being an idea worth manifesting, [...]
With Support from Verizon, a New and Improved Campus Carbon Calculator is On the Way
May 9, 2012By Amanda Sayut, Development Officer, Clean Air-Cool Planet In 2004, a group of student activists at Duke University lobbied their administration to reduce the university’s carbon footprint by installing solar panels on campus. But in spite of strong arguments about leadership, innovation and student demand, they were unsuccessful. When, however, the same group of students, collaborating [...]
We Are All Downstream
May 2, 2012By Leese Walker, Artistic Director, Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble New York State may soon lift its moratorium on fracking, putting our air, food and water at risk. Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a controversial shale gas-drilling technique that the industry claims is safe and clean. But you don’t have to drive very far into Pennsylvania [...]
Borough of Hawthorne, New Jersey, Green Map
May 2, 2012By Rayna Laiosa, Chairperson, Hawthorne Environmental Commission/Green Team The Hawthorne, NJ, Environmental Commission/Green Team created an interactive Green Map, which was funded through the Community Catalyst Fund of Clean Air-Cool Planet. The Green Team registered as a licensed mapmaker from the Green Map System, Inc. By registering as a mapmaker, the Green Team was able to utilize Green [...]
Defending the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) In New Hampshire
April 20, 2012Clean Air-Cool Planet offered the following testimony before the New Hampshire Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 19, 2012. Testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on HB 1490 - relative to New Hampshire’s regional greenhouse gas initiative cap and trade program for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. April 19, 2012 Roger Stephenson, Clean Air-Cool Planet, 100 Market Street [...]
Enhanced Recycling Program in Somersworth, NH
April 2, 2012By Liz Wilson, Chair of the Somersworth Sustainability Committee The City of Somersworth strives to be a leader in sustainability. As the Somersworth Sustainability Committee, we recognized that there were significant opportunities to improve access to recycling in public spaces within the city and lead by example. City residents visiting public buildings and spaces had [...]
