Posted tagged ‘carbon footprint’
October 17, 2011
By Melissa Everett, Ph.D., Executive Director, Sustainable Hudson Valley Sustainable Hudson Valley was generously awarded a CA-CP Community Catalyst Fund Mini-Grant to capture lessons learned in the pilot phase of our 10% Challenge, by designing and delivering a training session for regional champions who could then scale up the Challenge in their own communities. Through [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Climate, climate change, climate education, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, environment, Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming, local energy, Media, Solutions
Tags: carbon footprint, Carbon Management, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, global warming, green business, Local Energy Committees, New york
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October 12, 2011
Greg Seaman, Secretary, Guilford Energy Task Force Guilford Energy Task Force applied for a grant from Community Catalyst Fund for $2500 to fund 30 low-income homeowners for home energy assessments. (The balance of the grant was for postage and supplies.) These HEAs were carried out by companies authorized by Northeast Utilities, which cost each homeowner [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, local energy, Renewable energy
Tags: carbon footprint, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Planning, Connecticut, Energy Efficiency, Home Energy Assessments
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July 25, 2011
By Liz Dolphin, Assistant Town Planner, Town of Farmington, CT Education is the first step in a successful recycling program, and thanks to a grant from Clean Air-Cool Planet’s Community Catalyst Fund, the Town of Farmington, CT is off to a great start as it enters the new era of single-stream recycling. The Community Catalyst [...]
Categories: Community Action, environment, Recycling
Tags: carbon footprint, Climate action, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Outreach, Community Planning, Connecticut, environmentalism, Recycling, Single-stream recycling
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July 22, 2011
By Brenda J. Anderson, Spencer-Van Etten Middle School The 7th and 8th grade students in my Greenhouse Program (GHP) at Spencer-Van Etten (S-VE) Middle School in Spencer, NY, plan big . The students in this hands-on integrated elective continued their work from previous years of promoting Green Education in their building, district and community in a variety [...]
Categories: Uncategorized, Carbon Management, New Generation, Community Action, Climate, Food, Solutions, Recycling, local energy, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, environment, fossil fuels, climate education, Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions, gardening, organic, organic food, student climate action, composting, climate change, Renewable energy
Tags: global warming, climate change solutions, carbon footprint, Carbon Management, environmentalism, Climate action, Recycling, composting, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, New york, Community Catalyst Fund, K-12 education, field trips
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July 22, 2011
By Dani Glaser, Green Team Spirit “To hit the climate challenge ahead of us we need to make changes now. Our village governments need to set an example for our communities, and this change starts from within. Our village green teams will help change the culture, and this training will help us do that.”
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Categories: Carbon Management, climate change, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, environment, Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming, government planning, local energy, Planning, Solutions, sustainability, Uncategorized
Tags: behavior change, carbon footprint, Carbon Management, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, energy task forces, environmentalism, global warming, Green Teams, Local Energy Committees, New york, sustainability
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January 26, 2011
By Jim Rutala, Chair, Linwood (NJ) Environmental Commission Achieved bronze Sustainable Jersey Certification. Linwood, NJ, is part of an elite group of 67 municipalities that have achieved the prestigious Sustainable Jersey certification. Municipalities that earn the certification are considered by their peers, by state government, and by the experts and civic organizations in New Jersey, [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Climate, climate change, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, environment, Forests, Gardening/horticulture, Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions, local energy, sustainability, Uncategorized
Tags: carbon footprint, Carbon Management, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, CO2, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, global warming, Local Energy Committees, sustainability
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January 26, 2011
By Sumner Pingree, 725 Green Since 2007, 725 Green has been dedicated to providing voluntary action, education and local leadership to promote and assist the municipality of Sag Harbor, New York in becoming a more sustainable community. We have engaged residents and village officials in numerous initiatives focused on waste reduction, transportation, energy efficiency, stormwater [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Climate, climate change, Climate Fellows, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, environment, Global Warming, government planning, Green House Gas Emissions, Historic Buildings, Planning, sustainability, Uncategorized
Tags: carbon footprint, Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, climate fellows, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, global warming, Local Energy Committees, sustainability
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January 24, 2011
By Melissa Everett, PhD, Sustainable Hudson Valley The Hudson Valley Ten Percent Challenge is a regional invitation to cut your carbon footprint 10% and get 10% of “your” people involved. Initiated by Sustainable Hudson Valley, the Challenge has been piloted with the communities of Red Hook and Warwick, New York, in preparation for regional scale-up. The Ten [...]
Categories: Climate, climate change, Community Action, Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions, student climate action
Tags: carbon footprint, Carbon Management, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, Community Catalyst Fund, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, global warming, Local Energy Committees, sustainability
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November 22, 2010
UNH’s Cameron Wake evolves from researcher to translator of sustainability science By David Sims, Science Writer UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space SEARCHING FOR RELEVANCE and effectiveness in his scientific career, Cameron Wake zigzagged from big-scale, climate system science down to regional air quality issues and then back [...]
Categories: Carbon Management, Arctic, Campus Climate Action, Research and Development, Sea-level Rise, environment, government planning, fossil fuels, climate education, sustainability, Global Warming, weather, student climate action, climate change, surface temperature, sea ice
Tags: air quality, AIRMAP project, and Space, Arctic, Cameron Wake, Campus Carbon Calculator, carbon footprint, Carbon Management, Carbon Solutions New England, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, Climate Action Plan, Climate Change Policy Task Force, Climate Change Research Center, climate change solutions, climate system science, David sims, Fundraising, glaciers, glaciologist, global warming, Indicators of Climate Change in the Northeast, John Lynch, Local Energy Committees, Oceans, snow, Sound Science Initiative, sustainability, Sustainable Scientist, the UNH Faculty Excellence in Public Service Award, the UNH Sustainability Academy, Tibetan Plateau, UNH EOS, UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Union of Concerned Scientists, weather and climate
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November 18, 2010
By Bob Sheppard, CFO and Vice President, Corporate Program One of the things that first attracted me to Clean Air-Cool Planet a decade ago when there were but two employees on the payroll, was the opportunity to work collaboratively with corporate leaders, helping CEOs manage risk. This was an organization whose sole focus is climate [...]
Categories: business, Carbon Management, Climate, climate change, Community Action, corporate sustainability, Energy Efficiency, environment, EPA CAA, fossil fuels, Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming, government planning, Green House Gas Emissions, green jobs, local energy, Policy, Renewable energy, Research and Development, Solutions, sustainability, transportation, Uncategorized
Tags: carbon footprint, Carbon Management, clean air-cool planet, Climate action, climate change, climate change solutions, climate policy, CO2, corporate carbon emissions, Energy Efficiency, environmentalism, Fuel Efficiency, global warming, green business, green jobs, sustainability, transportation
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