Cap and Trade Mom…

It is again, looking as if the Senate will introduce a Cap and Trade/Energy Bill. The new version will take a limited approach to Cap and Trade, by just focusing on power plants and their emissions.
Well – that sounds fine to me.  As they say- why do you rob a bank….because that is where the money [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Ally Maize

Congratulations to this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week Ally Maize, founder of Green Youth Movement.

We first met Ally of a tree planting project that took place on Ventura Blvd. in Woodland Hills Ca. Recently Ally was a volunteer at our eco-bash held with The Green Girls.  We are so pleased to finally have [...]

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Teen Climate Leaders Trained by Al Gore!

32 teen climate leaders, and Inconvenient Youth members, were personally trained by Al Gore to spread awareness of the climate crisis to the public.

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Brandon McEachern

Congratulations to Brandon McEachern this weeks Climate Community Citizen of The Week.  Brandon is a wonderful, very energetic and positive young man who is the founder of a website/and a movement called Broccoli City.  Brandon saw a need in US urban communities for exposure to topics such as – “green”, “eco”, “organic”.  He believes (as [...]

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Solar power for fun!

These kids “get it” solar charged fun on their scooters – very cool!

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Alexis Chaves

Congratulations to Alexis Chaves this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week.  We have come to know about Alexis through another one of our winners – Sarah Elizabeth Ippel.  Alexis is a student at the Academy for Global Citizenship in Chicago (Sarah Elizabeth is the schools founder).

Although we do not generally work with grade school students [...]

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Organic Flowers

Here we have another wonderful video from our friends at Eco Company TV:

Flowers are big business all around the world. But just like most food products pesticides are traditionally used to control insects and pests. But Eco Company’s Jordon visited one grower that uses good bugs or beneficial bugs to control bad bugs. She filed [...]

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Green Party for a great cause…

On Saturday we were a part of an absolutly fantastic party hosted by The Green Girls, and The Climate Community in which we raised money for a remarkable organization – EarthSpark International.
The most amazing aspect of the event was the ability of our wonderful hostess and friend Apple Levy to bring together such a wide [...]

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A Vegetarian’s Dilemma

I am not a self-righteous vegetarian.  In fact, I’m quite an insecure vegetarian, frequently seeking justification for my one or two servings of dairy a day and the occasional egg.  I say to myself, “it’s okay since I only buy and consume dairy and eggs from local, organic sources…right?”  And thus begins the insecurity.  There’s [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Dan Schnitzer

Congratulations to Daniel Schnitzer this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the week. We met Dan many months ago through one of our close friends and a founder/advisor of ours Ted Steck of The University of Chicago. Dan has an amazing background and as you will read an enormous heart.  For years Dan has been working [...]

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