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Cash for Clunkers – smart – and sort of bi-partisan…?

As of this morning the House had voted to extend/expand the so called cash for clunkers (CARS) program by an additional $2billion.
The vote was 316 to 109 – that is lots of republicans and democrats voted yes!  That is great. 
In a year when a lot of money is simply “out the door” this seems to [...]

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Why you should learn to count carbon

Why you should learn to count carbon: Musings from a soon to be college grad.
by Alison Erlenbach   [Originally posted on my blog here]
I am graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in economics next week, and lately I’ve been reflecting on how my college experience has prepared me for the “real world”. While [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week Award – Laura Webber

This week the Climate Community Citizen of the Week Award goes to an amazing young (15 yr old) woman – Laura Webber.
Laura – who will be a junior at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco this fall is the founder of the 4-H Million Trees project.  As Laura describes below, she founded the program after [...]

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architecture2030 – great – informative site….

Architecture 2030 is an amazing site/place – the following is from the web site…
Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization, was established in response to the global-warming crisis by architect Edward Mazria in 2002. 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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Presidents, Good and Bad, Environmentally Speaking

Before “Bad” was good, “Cool” was hot and green was “Green,” a long list of events transpired in the environmental space that portended significant change for the country. Much of these changes were brought on, either wittingly or unwittingly, at the presidential level. Below are presidents of the U.S. who, either directly or indirectly, had [...]

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Coal coal coal – how much exactly?

It is sometimes hard to get our mind around how much coal we use in this nation.   So lets do a little fun (or not so…) math.
OK – at this point we burn about 1,200,000,000 tons (short tons) of coal per year just in the US.  Now remember a ton – or short ton is actually [...]

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Forests…critical to the fight!

As we think about the many ways we can combat climate change, one of the critical elements is protecting Forests.  Forests cover about one third of our planets land mass and are a central part of the natural carbon cycle – being a net carbon user – or carbon storehouse.
We already know that climate change [...]

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Alliance for Climate Education

Here is an amazing looking site/orginization focused on delivering a positive – but serious message to High School students regarding climate change – check it out….
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The Climate Communinty at work…..

Over the past few months we have been very fortunate to have seen our plan begin to take shape.  Several friends have shared ideas as authors – and several new friends have become our early winners….
The “post” that we do are mostly about macro type topics – politics, energy decisions, cap and trade, green buildings [...]

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Fostering Environmental Stewardship

It is an honor to receive the Climate Community Citizen of the Week award in recognition of the exciting work happening at the Academy for Global Citizenship. Four years ago, a vision was developed for a public school that empowered all children to take an active role in their local and global communities while embracing the [...]

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