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 [...]
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Cool Planet: Climate Change in a Blog
June 25, 2010Exploiting the spill, for good
June 21, 2010By 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 [...]
The Case for Holding Hands: Maine communities need more active support
June 14, 2010By 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 senior Environmental Policy major at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, he has worked to study [...]
Needed: Achievable Climate Goals
June 7, 2010By Toby Ball, Guest Blogger www.tobyball.com Three years ago, I was the field organizer for the Carbon Coalition finishing up work on the Climate Change Resolution Campaign. Back then, nobody’d had a strong read on how the town meetings would go. Despite a strong cohort of Carbon Coalition representatives working to pass the resolution [...]
Furman University Marches Forward on Sustainability Actions
March 18, 2010By Jennifer Andrews, Director of Program Planning and Coordination Clean Air-Cool Planet The week before last I had the great pleasure of returning to what has quickly become one of my favorite campuses: Furman University. Some of you may remember that Furman was our 2009 campus Climate Champion award recipient and the reasons behind my [...]
American EcoThermal: Improving the Home and Business Carbon Footprint
February 17, 2010By John Frodyma, Director of Commercial Development American EcoThermal, Inc. I am really excited about participating in the Green Entrepreneurship webinar on Feb 24th. My talk is going to be all about math and finance, and incentives. We’re going to talk about tax credits and rebates, accelerated depreciation schedules, and internal rate of return (IRR). [...]
11th hour deal finally sewn up in Copenhagen
December 18, 2009By Brooks Yeager Executive Vice President for Policy, Clean Air-Cool Planet It’s 11 at night in Copenhagen, and the word is that President Obama has finally sewn up a deal. It took more effort, of a more personal kind, than perhaps he might have expected. He had to scrap his schedule, stay longer than he [...]
Copenhagen from the Other Side of the World
December 18, 2009By Claire Roby Carbon Accounting Coordinator Clean Air-Cool Planet I’ve returned to Taiwan after studying here five years ago to find an incredibly warm December, and it is not difficult to imagine that global climate change is in the forefront of many people’s minds. The Copenhagen talks have been featured prominently in the papers for [...]
Some signs of new life for an agreement in Copenhagen
December 18, 2009By Brooks B. Yeager Executive Vice President for Policy Clean Air-Cool Planet It’s all come down to the wire. The possibility of a meaningful political deal, declared dead by Chinese negotiators as late as Wednesday night, has been given new life, but only just. The rescue began with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s news conference [...]
From COP-15: A Long Night in Copenhagen
December 17, 2009By Brooks Yeager, Executive Vice President for Policy Clean Air-Cool Planet It’s going to be a long night. The veteran negotiators have that look of weary resignation that means they know what they have to do, even if they were much younger the last time they had to do it. But all the gauntlets have [...]
