Earth Hour 2010

Mark the date and time on your calendars: Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 pm local time. Join the movement to demand immediate action on climate change and turn off your lights for one hour. Declare your commitment on the Earth Hour website, and add your name to the growing list of people who are pledging their support.

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Clean Energy Week

The National Coalition of Organizations has declared February 1-5, 2010 to be Clean Energy Week, as organizations from across the U.S. hold a variety of events to encourage and support the passage of clean energy and climate policies now pending in Congress. The objective is to engage the Administration and Congress in taking action on the top environmental and economic priorities of the American people:

• Climate solutions
• Renewable energy
• Energy efficiency.

Check out the wide range of activities taking place on Capitol Hill and across Washington, DC to bring attention to the policies needed for a clean energy economy.[Read More]

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Toward a Brighter Future

It's easy to get involved in the fight against climate change. You can start by measuring your climate impact and then managing your environmental footprint. Brighter Planet allows you to watch your carbon footprint with an online tool assessment that prompts you to answer questions, and a sophisticated emissions model tells you what your footprint is. You can watch it change over time as you learn to live a more carbon-free life. The site also offers energy conservation tips and emission-reducing strategies and lets visitors share their ideas and experiences. [Read More]

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Cap and Trade

Annie Leonard, who brought us The Story of Stuff, just released her latest animated online video, The Story of Cap and Trade. It only takes 10 minutes to watch this fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate change solution on the table in Copenhagen and in the halls of Congress. You'll learn how cap and trade works, who benefits, what the major concepts are, and how to get involved. Considering this is one of the most important sustainability issues of our day, it's worth your time. Don't forget to share it with friends and colleagues![Read More]

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Climate Change: Take Action Canada!

Canada is lagging behind other nations when it comes to addressing climate change. Our country produces less than 1% of its energy from renewable sources like wind and solar power and only employs a few thousand people. The U.S. is now investing 6x more person to build a clean-energy economy and 'green' jobs. And we emit 2 to 3 times more global warming pollution per person than most European countries.

Canadians can help stop climate change by speaking up. Call Prime Minister Stephen Harper at (613) 992-4211and leave him a voicemail message telling him you want Canada to be a leader at the UN Climate Summit this month. Take a video of yourself, post it on the David Suzuki Foundation site and you could win a $400 gift certificate from Mountain Equipment Coop. Enter yourself in their contest by filling out the online form here.

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Global Warming & Our Commitment to the Future

   By Rick Fullerton | Bio

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Recently, I have been focusing more and more of my attention on global warming and, in turn, on understanding my own reactions and responses to what’s happening. The results so far have been both fascinating and challenging. One aspect of the global warming conversation involves the role of the media in reporting scientific evidence and projections regarding the effects of carbon dioxide in heating the planet. In particular, I have learned about

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Transforming the Trends

By Jim Selman | Bio

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I was sent this extraordinary video produced by the AARP communicating in a simple and straightforward way that if we don’t change the direction we’re going, we’re apt to end up there. It is one of a number of dire predictions about our common future. Yesterday, Al Gore declared climate change irreversible and challenged all of us to transcend short-term concerns and agendas and unite with the world in dealing with this looming calamity. There is so much bad news about the ‘economic crisis’ that it is easy to become depressed or at the very least to become numb to the waves of negativity we’re encountering on a daily basis.

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Poznan: A Change of Climate

A year ago, we were focused on Bali as 184 nations gathered to discuss the Kyoto Protocol. From December 1st to 12th this year, we are now looking to the gathering of over 10,000 delegates and staff from 190 countries in Poznan, Poland at the 14th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 14). This event, held in conjunction with the 4th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 4), continues the international conversation about climate change. This conversation began over a decade ago with the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty focused on considering what can be done to reduce global warming and the inevitable consequences of increasing temperatures.

The financial crisis will definitely impact the discussion at Poznan regarding whether 'green' projects will help or hinder the short-term economic health of countries. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, spoke of the financial crisis as the main threat to the climate protection agenda, in that investors will miss the "opportunity for green growth" and focus on building  cheaper and dirtier power sources instead.[Read More]

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Peak Oil and Air Travel

With the recent bankruptcy filings of six airlines (ATA, Oasis Hong Kong, Aloha, Skybus, Frontier and Champion) in the past two weeks, the issues of climate change and peak oil dominate media reporting. Local journalists are calling transportation planners and policy-makers to task, suggesting that their focus should not be committing more resources to infrastructure developments that support the airline industry as it exists today. Air travel has been subsidized by government,  but environmental realities can no longer be ignored.[Read More]

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Global Warning

Nope, the name of this post is not a misspelling. I mean warning! I wonder…when does a ignoring a dire warning become denial? When does someone hearing, “You are drinking too much” become an alcoholic? As someone who has had my fair share of after work drinking and after dinner toasts, I can tell you that you never know you are in denial when you are in denial. If enough people suggest there may be a problem, then the only way to know if there is a problem is to assume they are right. If they are, then there is still time to recover. If they aren’t, then a little abstinence never hurt anyone. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a stance along the lines of “We will if they will” that is tantamount to an immature parent saying “I won’t lose my temper if you’ll stop crying.”[Read More]

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