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Weekly Mulch: New bills and old money

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a compromise bill spearheaded by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), can pass without getting caught in the morass of money and politics that has delayed action [...]

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USGBC Names ‘Top 10 List’ of Green Building Bills

Even with the challenges in Washington there can be some progress on the Green Building front.  In that regard, on February 24th the US Green Building Council released its “Top 10 List”of legislation and pending legislation in an effort to highlight areas of agreement (and potential agreement) that can positively impact the real estate community [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week - Victoria Bogdan

Congratulations to Victoria Bogdan this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Victoria is a life long environmentalist - with a deep love of the out doors and an interest in learning how to make life on our planet sustainable both for humans and the other animals that we share the earth with.  The following is [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week - Chris Dowsett

Congratulations to Chris Dowsett this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Chris is our first winner from south of the equator - being from Australia. We met Chris on-line after checking out his cool website and learning about the excellent work he has done both at home in Australia, and also here as he [...]

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Olympic Torch Bearers - and friends Laura Webber and Alison Lerner

As the Olympic games are now in full swing, we want to take a moment to recognize two amazing young women Laura Webber and Alison Lerner.  Both Alison and Laura were recently in Calgary to help carry the Olympic Torch as recognition by Coke of the valuable contribution both have made in the effort to [...]

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Senator Boxer - a true conservative!

Yesterday, Apple Levy (GreenGirls) and I attended an event for Senator Boxer held at the lovely home of Laurie David (Inconvenient Truth Producer).

The guest speaker for the event was former Vice President Al Gore.  The conversation was excellent, and the group of people, guests of Ms. David were interesting and diverse and all looked forward [...]

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Inconvenient Youth - Great Friends!

Inconvenient Youth: a community of teenagers taking action to solve the climate crisis.
Dear Climate Community,
Allow me to introduce Inconvenient Youth. Inconvenient Youth is an initiative of The Climate Project, which you may know from Dan’s work as a presenter (Thanks to Dan and Allisyn for this opportunity introduce ourselves!). So, let me tell you a [...]

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Weekly Mulch: ‘Global Weirding’ and Climate Skeptics’ Slushy Logic

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Climate skeptics found plenty of reasons to dig out their dreary critiques this week, between the continuing controversy over erroneous reports from the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the record-breaking snowfall on the East Coast. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and his family built an igloo which Inhofe then [...]

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Climate Community Citizen of the Week - Alison Lerner

Congratulations to Alison Lerner – this week’s Climate Community Citizen of the Week!

Alison is a published eco-author and a freshman at The University of Southern California. We met Alison through another of our winners - Laure Webber - as they both were invited (by Coke) to share in the running of the Olympic Torch in [...]

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