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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Aaron Lande

Congratulations to Aaron Lande – this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week.
Aaron works at the US Green Building Council headquarters in Washington DC. Aaron is an Advocacy Associate in the Sustainable Cities Program. In this role Aaron works closley with various organizations – ULI, The Clinton Climate Initiative, and NRDC. The over [...]

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Create a Greener Office in 2010

As the new year quickly approaches, it’s a great time to reflect on our accomplishments of the past year, as well as plan our future goals.  How are we going to continue to incorporate sustainable practices into lives?  The United States makes up about five percent of the world’s population, but we use 25 percent [...]

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Sustainable Skiing….really?

As we head off to Mammoth California for several days of family skiing I wonder – is there really such a thing as sustainable skiing?
I think at some level the answer has to be – no – not really.  Right – bringing thousands upon thousands of people to remote – hard to access mountain slopes [...]

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Tragedy of the Commons: does it have to be so tragic?

In the aftermath of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, many environmentalists and world leaders alike are feeling defeated and disillusioned. However, it is little surprise that attempts to draft an international agreement with any clout result in gridlock. What the international community is facing is a classic “tragedy of the commons” problem: it is in [...]

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Marching in Copenhagen….

Here is a great video from Copenhagen – a 100,000 people march!  Makes me wonder…if we can keep the young people involved – the rest will follow.

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Copenhagen Photos….

 We have just met a wonderful photographer – Robert vanWaarden from Denmark.  He has an amazing web site where you can see his work robert vanwaarden photography, and he is being very gracious in allowing us to post a few images of his that he shot over the past few weeks while in Copenhagen.
The pictures [...]

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Merry Christmas!

We want to wish all of our friends a very Merry Christmas.  Our family is quite happy to have met so many wonderful people this year as a part of The Climate Community project. 
The Christmas season should remind us that family matters, how we treat others matters, that a long time ago…a child was born – [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Erin Viera

Congratulations to Erin Viera this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week Award Winner.
We met Erin this summer as our link to the Jane Goodall organization in Southern California – Roots and Shoots.  Erin has helped us to meet several outstanding young people students and teachers – several of whom have become winners of our.

The [...]

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Coal – the big winner! (even Scrooge could change…)

With the Copenhagen meetings over and uncertainty (at best…) about the out come we have to ask – who benefits?
A very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal “Copenhagen’s delay is coal-power heyday” gives us a pretty good answer. The quick overview is – the firms who would have seen more regulation – coal burning firms [...]

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Copenhagen – nations must be united….

As the dust settles it is quite clear that the Copenhagen conference was truly disappointing.  The risk that major players – The US, China and others begin a protracted period of finger pointing and arguing is real – and is something that the world can not afford.  We in the US have to try to [...]

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