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 senior Environmental Policy major at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, he has worked to study [...]
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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 [...]
Support action on climate change policy: Business will benefit
February 2, 2010By Bob Sheppard, CFO and VP of the Business Program, Clean Air-Cool Planet While there is a great deal of flux in current discussions of federal climate policy, one thing is clear: the interests of businesses demand that businesses be heard. Here’s why the business community should favor action now on climate: The business as [...]
Got Blog? One Small Dairy Firm Makes a Difference
October 20, 2009By Bob Sheppard COO & Director of the Business Program Clean Air-Cool Planet Last week I spoke at a three-day workshop featuring 50 employees from the multi-national consumer goods conglomerate Unilever PLC. When Clean Air- Cool Planet was founded, no one could have imagined that a business with $40.5 billion in sales would bring top [...]
Business meets Washington, D.C., meets carbon
June 16, 2009By Bob Sheppard, COO and Manager of the Corporate Program, Clean Air-Cool Planet When Clean Air-Cool Planet came into being the concept of businesses working to reduce their firms’ greenhouse gas emissions was still in the embryonic stages. In those days meetings with corporate executives frequently meant watching their eyes roll back, fidgeting in their [...]
