Posted tagged ‘Local Energy Committees’
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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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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April 28, 2011
Roger Stephenson, APR Vice President for Programs I decided to live tweet the proceedings of last week’s NH Senate Hearing on HB 519 – the repeal of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Granite State. My reactions: outside the hearing, as evidenced from the Twitterverse, there is a [...]
Categories: Policy, local energy, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, climate education, Green House Gas Emissions, RGGI, New Hampshire, Americans for Prosperity
Tags: global warming, clean air-cool planet, Local Energy Committees, Energy Efficiency, NH, RGGI, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiaitive, New Hampshire RGGI, RGGI Repeal, Portsmouth Herald RGGI
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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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December 27, 2010
By Julia Dundorf Manager of Community Relations and Co-director of the New England Carbon Challenge, Clean Air – Cool Planet The New England Carbon Challenge (NECC) and its partners are proud to announce the upcoming launch of the My Energy PlanTM Video Challenge 2011 for New Hampshire residents. Businesses, organizations and even a [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Campus Climate Action, Carbon Management, climate change, climate education, Climate Science, Community Action, Energy Efficiency, Fundraising, local energy, Planning, Research and Development, Solutions, student climate action, sustainability
Tags: global warming, climate change solutions, clean air-cool planet, sustainability, Local Energy Committees, Carbon Management, Climate action, Community Planning, Energy Efficiency, Stonyfield Farm, RGGI, My Energy Plan, The New England Carbon Challenge, NECC, Video Challenge 2011, New Hampshire residents, prizes, NH Sustainable Energy Association, University of NH Cooperative Extension, University of NH, NHPTV, NHPR, NHPUC
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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 15, 2010
Regardless of one’s ideological framing, the way we mindlessly expend energy is senseless. Pick your button issue – energy independence, climate change, foreign (or domestic) fossil fuel markets, environmental impacts of fossil fuel extraction or burning (think Gulf spill), green jobs, peak oil, resource conservation, rising energy costs (we can be sure they will) – they all point to the absurdity of our profligate addition to all things energy.
Categories: Carbon Management, Community Action, Policy, Fuel Efficiency, Advocacy, Research and Development, local energy, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, oil, oil spill, fossil fuels, climate education, sustainability, Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions, climate change, Renewable energy
Tags: global warming, climate change solutions, clean air-cool planet, sustainability, Local Energy Committees, green jobs, Carbon Management, Climate action, weatherization, Energy Efficiency, Button Up NH, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, UNH, Julia Dundorf, Stern Report, New Hampshire's Green Economy and Industries: Current Employment and Future Opportunities, New England Carbon Challenge, Housing Conference, NH Housing Finance Authority, Build Green NH, Building NH Trade Show, Home Builders and Remodelers Association of NH, peak oil, resource conservation, rising energy costs, US Energy Information Administration, heating fuels, fuel pil, kerosene, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, RGGI, My Energy Plan
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November 3, 2010
By Nancy Welch, Hamilton County Cornell Cooperative Extension Even though Hamilton County is the third largest in New York State, it is the least populated. Having only 5,021 year-round residents, the county is rural with no fast food restaurants, chain hotels, stoplights, or shopping malls. People depend on locally owned and operated stores for food, [...]
Categories: Forests, Community Action, Fundraising, Policy, Advocacy, Research and Development, local energy, Energy Efficiency, Planning, Climate Science, environment, climate education, Global Warming, climate change
Tags: clean air-cool planet, sustainability, Local Energy Committees, Climate action, Community Planning, New york, Community Catalyst Fund, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Cornell Cooperative Extension, Nancy Welsh, Forest Preserve, Adirondack Ecofest, Byron Park, Indian Lake, Diane Perley, Rural Community Assistance Partnership Solutions, Bill Weaver, Lake Pleasant Transfer Station, Caitlin Stewart, HCSWCD, Tom Colarusso, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Jerry Loch, Jefferson County Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYDEC, Emily DeBolt, Kristen Rohne, Lake George Association, Beth Gilles, Lake Champlain-Lake George Regional Planning Board, Dorean Page, Rebecca Manwaring, Project Action Tobacco-Free Coalition, Nancy Berkowitz, Indian Lake Public Library, the water cycle
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